Milton Friedman, 94
Noted economist Milton Friedman has died at age 94. (See a brief chronology at, what else, the Wall Street Journal.) It’s important to note the twists and turns that his proposal for vouchers has taken, from his main argument to replace all public schooling with vouchers to the Alum Rock non-experiment in the 1970s to […]
Want a higher-ed union job?
The United Faculty of Florida‘s wonderful executive director, Steve Weinberger, is leaving Florida and his job, and we need a replacement. Want a challenge? Fill his shoes!
You go, profgrrrrl!
Just after I read Michael Bérubé’s discursion on blogs as a professorial discourse came profgrrrrl’s on being a grrrrl — blog identity issues, which is as pointed an example of Bérubé’s argument as anything else you’ll find this month on the ‘net. Incidentally, as a vegetarian I avoid the meaty metaphors used in the Bérubéan analysis […]
Test-prep debate
Craig Jerald’s comments on test-prep sparked Matt Yglesias’s discussion and a debate about test prep, and then Jerald’s follow-up. I don’t think there’s that much disagreement about the facts: some schools respond to test pressures in inappropriate ways by narrowing the curriculum or engaging in instruction that they’d stop (and often do) right after testing. […]
… and some days the bear gets you
By Sherman Dorn on November 16, 2006
Anatomy of a latté fix: An AERA symposium proposal on the grad-rate debate was rejected, a session which would have been a discussion with Larry Mishel, Chris Swanson, Rob Warren, and Nikolas Pharris-Ciurej. (I will not identify the division to protect the guilty.) Two local campus-political things are going mildly wonky, but wonky nonetheless. Various […]
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