Down to the last few tasks…
I hope everyone who celebrates Christmas is having (or have had) a wonderful day. For those who aren’t but keep the Julian calendar system, happy Isaac Newton’s birthday! For those of us who operate on the Gregorian (modern) calendar and who don’t celebrate Christmas, have a great day anyway. (For most of us, then, Newton’s […]
Expertise tackled; the world is next
Whew! I’ve split up the former chapter 2 into two chapters, expanded the analysis of expertise and the political drives for test-score accountability in the new chapter 2, and polished the new chapter 3 a bit. The rest of the revision checklist is now much narrower: Change chapter summaries in preface and new chapter 6 […]
180,000 words served
Taking a brief break from polishing the new chapter 2 of Accountability Frankenstein, I copied and pasted every entry of this blog and then counted words. It’s 210,000 words in about 720 entries… but it’s less than that, because some entries are in more than one category, and the copy/paste job included the tags around […]
To every task there is a season… (and a state of health)
Polishing a 65-page (double-spaced) references section isn’t the most thrilling job in the world, and I’ve been pecking away at it in odd moments for the last few weeks, but when I’m healthy there are too many other, far more rewarding activities to draw my attention…. until I woke up from too little sleep this […]
Theodore Porter, Trust in Numbers, and picking the right fights
On the way to and from my mother-in-law’s house today, I finished Theodore Porter’s Trust in Numbers (1995). (I should say that I finished it while my spouse was driving!) While I was distraught this morning at Porter’s style, I slogged through, a matter which I knew was important. And the book has plenty of […]