Pomposity Awkward, but the right spirit
I just received an e-mail from Teachers College Record about a World Wide Premier of a Paper from a Forthcoming Issue. My journal publishes, but the Record has premiers. Wow. Does Renee Zellweger attend them? Update (12/30/05): I wish that the Record has explained a little bit more clearly what they’re doing, which is releasing […]
Good news
Well, it looks like Penn dropped the charges against the student-photographer of student-exhibitionists (hat tip to Erin O’Connor), Penn State faculty finally created an AAUP chapter to defend themselves with, and Missouri faculty have been saved from the dissolution/disorganization of the University of Missouri system, according to an e-mail I received overnight (on an AAUP […]
ABCTE news
Andrew Rotherham reports troubles with the American Board for Certification of Teacher Excellence, what appears to be an electronic correspondence course for teacher wannabes. This is the nth entity failure that former Arizona Commissioner of Education Lisa Keegan has been involved with, I believe? Not that they’re all her fault, but she doesn’t have a […]
Neologism of the day
I just received the fall 2005 issue of the American Educational Research Journal with an article by Geoffrey Borman, Robert Slavin, and others, with a multiyear, multilevel evaluation of Success for All (insert appropriate intellectual-property-protecting symbols here, I assume). Among other things, this will put additional pressure on the federal government’s exclusion of Success for […]
Student photography and speech on campus
Erin O’Connor has a set of links and commentary on the case of a University of Pennsylvania student who posted pictures of a couple making love in a campus dorm window (in plain public view). Since bad taste seems to be going the rounds these days as a target of university crackdowns (John Daly, anyone?), […]