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 […]
Teaching models
This morning, the New York Times has an article by Richard Panek on new teaching models, primarily the Program in Course Redesign at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute’s Center for Academic Transformation. I haven’t seen the reports at all (something else to do in my copious free time!), but the article jibes with my sense of teaching: […]
Columbia University
In the burgeoning controversy over Columbia University’s Middle East and Asian Languages and Cultures (MEALAC) department (allegations that faculty have intimidated students who disagree with them politically, counter-allegations that this is a threat to academic freedom, counter-counterallegations that the counter-allegations are the real threat to academic freedom, etc.), the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education […]
The cognitive blogroll
After setting up my Bloglines blogroll last week, I had this startling thought about RSS aggregators like Bloglines, niche (and partisan) media outlets like Fox News, and selective “hearing” that students occasionally engage in when reading: part of the freedom to pick and choose what is convincing—and select one’s sources for reading (or believing)—is the […]
Trying comments again…
By Sherman Dorn on January 15, 2005
After checking out several other academic blogs like Playing School, Irreverantly, I’ve decided to try using Haloscan‘s comment accounts because it appears it’s less subject to comment spam. So we’ll see if anyone’s interested enough in this to comment! (Hmmn… does this say anything about my time management on Saturday evenings? Maybe because my spouse […]
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