Freudian slip of the day
From an otherwise well-written paper: “money is the fist necessity.”
The problem with the McGraw-Hill conflict-of-interest argument
Since Stephen Metcalf’s 2002 article on family ties between the McGraw-Hill publishing company and the Bush family, it has become a minor cottage industry to assert that the (quite possible) conflict of interest is evidence of the inherent corruption of No Child Left Behind. (See the Students against Testing, DailyKos diary entry, Jim Trelease, and […]
Peter Boyle, RIP
Wouldn’t you know it: I’m revising the manuscript to Accountability Frankenstein, and Peter Boyle dies. For those who don’t know, he was The Creature in Young Frankenstein.
NCLB odds
Eduwonk Andy Rotherham lays out the first set of NCLB reauthorization odds this morning. He and I agree that the most likely scenario is everyone’s punting until after the ’08 election. But he puts straight reauthorization as more likely than a dramatic revision by what he calls NEA’s “rewrit[ing] the law to its liking” or a “Conservatives[‘] […]
Poking away…
By Sherman Dorn on December 14, 2006
Having a cold is not fun. Having a cold when you’re trying to grade papers, revise a book manuscript, keep up with journal editing stuff, and chaffeur children is particularly not fun. And then having a cold when it’s your spouse’s birthday? Yes, of course I’ll still pick the younger child up from school. What […]
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