Failure rates
The St Pete Times story on high-school graduation-test failures in Pinellas County (which includes St. Petersburg) reports that approximately 10 percent of seniors in the county have failed their last-chance try at the high-school graduation test in Florida. They will be receiving “certificates of completion” rather than a standard diploma—an exit document that is useless […]
Psychologizing as the exception now
I just finished reading a student paper that distorted most of the cited class readings, turning them into an explanation of where juvenile delinquents became psychologically abnormal. This is evidence that the student had not quite learned the message I’ve been pounding for the entire semester: this course isn’t psychology. It’s humanities and social-science perspectives […]
Joke complaint at Students for Academic Freedom
Thanks to my colleague Gregory McColm for finding and pointing out the joke complaint about Bob Jones University at Students for Academic Freedom. So much for careful vetting!
Slowly, slowly…
Over the weekend, I distributed the last of January’s Education Policy Analysis Archives manuscripts to reviewers. That still leaves a backlog from February on, but I’m feeling much better, and there’s a reasonable chance that I can clear the backlog by the end of June, leaving me free to respond to manuscripts as they come […]
On privacy when traveling
One last entry tonight, and on a personal note (though not about the sad and mysterious disappearance of Lucius, my daughter’s fire-bellied toad): I recently purchased an electric viola from the Electric Violin Shop and am currently waiting for a case for it and a bow. I played viola for 12 years as a child […]