Flag flap in Denver
A Colorado teacher was suspended this week for displaying foreign flags in a geography class. Colorado law says you can’t display another country’s flag on a public building, but there’s an exception for transitory displays for educational purposes. Geography teachers can’t display flags? A day later, the district reversed itself. Something tells me the administration […]
Graduation-rate report, just out, is already obsolete…
Seastrom et al.’s technical report on graduation rates, volume 1, was just released this week. (Hat tip: edspresso.) Kudos to the authors on it. And, unusual for an area in my research expertise, it’s already out of date. Warren’s 2005 paper was released while the report was in peer review and was addressed briefly in […]
Ooh ooh! Mr. Kotter Rotherham!
In responding to my earlier discussion of teacher certification debates, Eduwonk Andy Rotherham writes, “What other $450 billion dollar industry can’t give you a decent denominator on productivity?” I presume he meant “indicator” or “measure.” Oh, my. What a question. I’ll just give one answer (though it’s not as large an industry): management consulting. There […]
Comparative studies in special education: a brain-bursting exercise
This evening, I’m finishing up my reading and note-taking on non-U.S. history of special education placement for a review article on inclusion. I’m writing a small section, and I know it would come to this: someone who knows just about the U.S. (me!) has to search for and read the secondary literature on comparative perspectives. And […]
Your next faculty meeting
By Sherman Dorn on August 26, 2006
Profgrrrrl has an absolutely dead-on description of a common faculty meeting dialogue structure. It definitely brought a grin to my face this morning.
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