A palpable lie
In response to criticism of a recent special, ABC employee John Stossel has written a column, Myth: Schools Need More Money (or something similar depending on your local headline writer), with the following baloney: The truth is, public schools are rolling in money. If you divide the U.S. Department of Education’s figure for total spending […]
Viking raid on Georgia archives
With a family and Florida’s odd school year (end in late May, teachers return in late July), I don’t get to archives that often and schedule them in negotiations with my wonderful spouse. So after consulting our schedules, our kids’ schedules, and the phases of Venus, I figured out about 2 years ago that I […]
Vicarous Johari/Nohari
The Johari window meme has been circulating among the blogs of personal friends and my academic blogroll, so I’m going to twist it a bit: Johari for historical figures! This is more a matter of comparing shallow impressions, but isn’t this what the internets are for? So let’s start with Lincoln, since there’s plenty of […]
On wonks and institutions
Andrew Rotherham has decided to publicly nominate three individuals he thinks would be good presidents of Teachers College, in the context of a discussion of colleges of education: Doesn’t this seem like a great opportunity to really bring in someone dynamic who can work to put an academic institution like TC on the front burner […]
Summers of Discontent
By Sherman Dorn on February 21, 2006
Larry Summers has resigned, and the blogosphere is full of intemperate claims of political correctness. Tim Burke has the sensible view. No one’s hands are particularly clean here (are they ever, at Harvard?), but Larry Summers had plenty of self-inflicted wounds.
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