Top 10 education news stories in 2006
USA Today and Eduwonk Andy Rotherham have done year-end reviewlets, it’s my turn…
Preface passage: accountability and test contracts
My job here is not quite done: I need to write the acknowledgments and complete the marketing questionnaire. But the rest is done. Done. Done! (at least until the copyeditor comes back with 1001 queries) The following is a short passage from the preface. I scrolled down and up fairly randomly and then snipped a bit […]
2624 missing citations
Here’s why you check the text against the references before the manuscript goes to the publisher: With 658 publications listed currently, there are still 26 I mentioned in the text but didn’t have in the references section, and there are a bunch in the references section that don’t appear in the text. So I’ll be […]
When to shut down a school
You probably didn’t expect this subject from the title, but the entry today isn’t about accountability, it’s about public health. The Bloomberg news story today about this year’s bird-flu cases has an interesting school angle, as DemFromCT (on DailyKos) notes: one of the simplest community interventions to prevent the spread of a contagious is to close the […]
Down to the scutwork
I think the last substantive revisions are done. Left to do: Write a paragraph of acknowledgments at the end of the preface. Check the last two chapters, the last ones that I haven’t yet, for awkward phrasing (such as unnecessary, the stuff you don’t need, parenthetical comments). Check references against the text. Complete the marketing […]