The subtleties of research ethics with children
Today comes the news that California Senator Barbara Boxer and Florida Senator Bill Nelson are holding up Stephen Johnson’s nomination as EPA chief because of the EPA’s Children’s Health Environmental Exposure Research Study in Jacksonville. Designed as a study of the effects of normal pesticide use on young children, it may now be used to […]
Venal and mortal sins in the defense of academic freedom
I wrote a few days ago that I hadn’t known of any Florida administrator who had openly opposed Baxley’s bill. That’s not correct. Florida’s higher-ed Chancellor Debra Austin has written (though I haven’t heard it reported that she’s spoken publicly), “We do not believe this legislation is necessary since the AAUP professional guidelines for faculty […]
In print on HB 837
Plenty of stories in the last two days in Florida have focused on the hearing Tuesday at the House Education Council in the University of Florida student newspaper, the Alligator, the Palm Beach Post, the Tallahassee Democrat, and several papers using the Associated Press feed. The most interesting is a piece in the St. Pete […]
Debate on Florida Horowitz bill
Today, my colleague Roy Weatherford debated Dennis Baxley on Democracy Now for about 10 minutes. It was cordial, and Roy acquitted himself well (he was positively sparkling when on The O’Reilly Factor in 2001).
American Educational Research Association meeting
By Sherman Dorn on April 12, 2005
I’m in Montreal this week for the American Educational Research Association annual meeting, and it will be one of the odder conference visits I’ve ever had. I won’t attend a single paper session….
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