Sideways looks at ed policy
On the cryptic-note front (move along, move along, there’s nothing to see here), I want to set down briefly what I discovered from trying to explain my sideways looks at ed policy to undergraduates last semester. While this doesn’t quite capture my disciplinary (history) background, I tried to explain a bit about my political legacy […]
On mediocre reporting of research
Another article on the sleep research involving adolescents today. As is typical, the interviewed researchers claim that teens’ diurnal clocks run later than either younger children or adults. And as is typical, this article doesn’t mention whether the researchers controlled for the schedules of the teens. Without doing so, it’s tough to say whether the […]
Bush v. Holmes 2005
I’ve now had a chance to look at Bush v. Holmes, the voucher decision in Florida. There are some hidden bombs in here (past the jump):
Beginning of semester
Tomorrow’s my first teaching day, but the semester begins today for USF, and after several days of combining a research trip with seeing friends, I need to switch directions. Finish syllabus revision, toss things on the web, etc. Update (11 am): Perhaps I shouldn’t have done my weekly volunteering gig at my son’s elementary school. […]
Back in the archives
I’m back at the Georgia Archives today and tomorrow (started yesterday), with luck finishing the photographing of the reports I’ve chosen from the late 1950s and early 1960s. (This series starts in the late 1930s.) Usually, historians don’t use the term data collection, because sifting through primary documents is a much more active cognitive process […]