The Art of the Annual Review
My annual review is due on Monday, and it’s time to acknowledge that there is an art to bragging about oneself in a way that fits with the format of our over-bureaucratized annual review form in my college, with its headings and required entries (how much time were you assigned for this type of teaching, […]
Editors meeting
One of the promises I made in the proposal to become editor of Education Policy Analysis Archives was to head to the Phoenix area for a meeting to coordinate the transition early in 2005. Well, it’s early in 2005, I’m on my way to the unveiling of my father’s headstone, so I’m stopping off here […]
IRB exemption!
This week the IRB exemption came that allowed me to open up the package with individual-level data from the Florida Department of Education. This is anonymous enrollment and graduation information from 1999-2000 and 2000-01, so I can test working with age-specific data . Hurrah! Now, where do I find the time for this? (That’s okay: […]
Churchill and standards
…People who are rankly incompetent or dishonest should be tossed out on their ears, but how many of our minor mistakes could be distorted into allegations of fraud in the heat of political conflict, with dozens of paid hype-masters focusing on every jot and tittle we’ve written?…
Monster days
By Sherman Dorn on February 28, 2005
There are two types of monster days, though maybe I should call them bear days (as in “some days you get the bear, and some days …”). One kind of monster day eats you alive—equipment breaks down right, left, and center, there are seven phone calls that need urgent attention right before class starts, nothing […]
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