Books: accountability or academic freedom?
Well, no publisher thus far has bitten on my proposal for an academic-freedom book. I guess David Horowitz’s self-inflicted publicity wounds plus the existing books have made it less appealing. But I have some interest in a book on accountability, so I may tap that one out over the summer. My first stab at explaining […]
Test-prep as steroids
NY Times reporter Samuel Freedman now suspects what I wrote just three weeks ago. Me: “I’m afraid that test-prep works, if only in the sense that steroids work in sports, with the short-term results.” Freedman: “Under the pretense of fair competition, tens of thousands of high school students and their families employ the scholastic equivalent […]
Dueling grad rates
A Jay Greene dropout/graduation report, and then comes Lawrence Mishel’s counterargument! Then Edwize gets into the game! And then the AFT NFTBlog says there will be a debate between the primary authors hosted by the Center on Education Policy. It sounds a bit like a WWF match, but I need to confirm the existence of […]
I am not a caring teacher
While I’m grading this afternoon, I’ll borrow one of my entries from The Wall of Education, a multiblog I’m participating in. It’s my foray into an interdisciplinary discussion of ethics and caring, a critique of some notions from a cynical historian’s perspective. And since it’s our accreditation/review visit over the next few days, it also […]
Mental whiplash
Hint to student writers: don’t suddenly switch topics in the middle of the paper. My brain’s too old for that.