George Tindall, 1921-2006
Southern historian George Tindall has died at 85. Ralph Luker has a very nice tribute to him (and great teaching stuff!) at Cliopatria. I remember being introduced to a wonderful stylist in The Emergence of the New South, 1913-1945 (1967). When I initially read it, the first chapter (“In the House of their Fathers”) was […]
Thoughtful response to Tough
And the award this week for the best response to the New York Times magazine piece by Paul Tough, What It Takes To Make a Student, goes to Leo Casey for Out, Out, Damn Fact!
The NCLB-dismantling petition
I’ve been intending to write about the online petition calling for the dismantling of the No Child Left Behind Act for several days, but it’s been a very busy week, and I’ve been trying to sort through my thoughts. As of 4 pm today, the petition had over 11,000 signatories. Some of them are “heavyweight” opponents […]
Performance pay in teaching and in business
The following is a partial transcript of my live chat tonight. (I’ve rearranged a few lines so that the conversation reads more linearly than it really was, and I’ve done some other light editing for readability.) Paying for performance came up, and a student who works in private business started to talk as if it made no sense […]
Meetings swallow up the week
By Sherman Dorn on December 2, 2006
I had nineteen events on my calendar this week, mostly meetings. I missed two of the events by planning, thanks to a colleague who took my place, and missed two because the aftermath of one meeting ran over the others. As a consequence, I am severely behind in two or three obligations. And this weekend, […]
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