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: […]