The fake academic freedom debate?
There are serious problems with universities as intellectual environments…. But analysis of universities is not advanced by Manichean claims by Horowitz or others.
Irregular verbs
When I first saw Yes, Prime Minister, I was charmed by its wit and insight into politics. Probably the best lasting contribution was the invention of the irregular verb, a pointed description of different (and egocentric) perspectives: I have high standards. You sometimes let your students get easy A's. They are letting grade inflation run […]
Holiday
No assigned work today—holiday, and Elizabeth helps me enforce my standards on this sort of thing. I’m allowing myself to do stuff that’s linked to social activism, in the spirit of MLK, but that’s it.
Armstrong Williams as entrepreneur or idealogue?
There’s continued hullaballo over Williams’ failure to disclose his $240,000 contract with the U.S. Department of Education to promote the No Child Left Behind Act, after Williams’s apology, and continued criticism that he was never really a journalist. There is, for example, a potentially apocryphal story about an interview to be Armstrong Williams’s ghostwriter, but […]
Reviewing books to kill Benjamin Bloom
By Sherman Dorn on January 26, 2005
If I were to categorize that in Bloom’s Taxonomy, knowing the author’s perspective would be “knowledge,” the lowest, basest form of thinking according to the hierarchical thinking-classifiers. And yet it is the hardest task in reviewing a book.
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