The “bits and pieces” stage
I have to get my head back into a few pieces of writing I haven’t seen in several months, disparate chapters from two books I’m co-editing. For one, Schools as Imagined Communities, I volunteered to add material to the introduction on a semi-chronological overview of what we could say about schools as communities, before the […]
Directions, directions, …
Okay, to reprise the burgeoning research on student net flows for my 2.5 readers …
Managing work
When I feel overloaded, that’s my crutch: “Okay, time to make a to-do list.” I get through the crunch, relax, and … the to-do list drops off my mental landscape. I don’t like to operate in a crisis mentality, and that’s what I associate a list with.
Admirable consistency and the morality of universities
[S]everal conservative academic bloggers are standing behind basic academic-freedom principles…. But I want to consider the ideas of those who call for Churchill’s immediate dismissal … [the] claim that public funds should not be paying him at the University of Colorado. This moral argument conflicts violently with the definition of the university as a place to explore a diversity of views and create new knowledge…. At the same time, universities have a far greater moral crisis in its sponsorship of semi-professional athletics at the expense of academics and, for many, the corporatization of universities.
Eyes on the Prize held hostage
By Sherman Dorn on February 10, 2005
As reported in Wired, Blackside Production’s Eyes on the Prize is currently unavailable because it only negotiated the rights to all of those film clips for a limited number of years, and it was never released on DVD. Downhill Battle is organizing screenings of the documentary, using Henry Hampton’s prize-winning work to make its case […]
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