PAA poster
I’ve gone and committed a poster for my presentation next week at the annual meeting of the Population Association of America. I decided to create a generic explanation for the poster (which is 5×3′) and then smaller side panels for more details, the examples, and references. It’s my first use of the copy shop in […]
Funding fudges
As CNN reports, state funding for higher ed has continued to decline as a proportion of total revenues. This is why claims about “educational inflation” being higher than general inflation is misleading—it’s true for tuition costs but not all costs; it’s true for some elite institutions but not the bulk; and it neatly avoids the […]
Academic freedom report in Florida
Florida's legislative research service (Office of Program Policy Analysis & Government Accountability or OPPAGA) has just issued its report on academic freedom, requested by Rep. Dennis Baxley after his version of the Academic Bill of Rights died in the last session. Community Colleges and Universities Have Academic Freedom Policies: Relatively Few Grievances Filed (PDF) is […]
Misconstruing schools of education
Peter Wood, the provost at King’s College, has abolished the college’s school of education, something that Joanne Jacobs and Margaret Soltan have noted.
The schedule has fallen apart. We apologize for the inconvenience.
By Sherman Dorn on March 24, 2006
The 7.49 loyal readers of this blog may have wondered at the hypothetical story that appeared on my blog last week. Well, some things aren’t hypothetical. I’ve been invited to address a committee of the Florida legislature next week about the state’s education accountability policies (or, more specifically, address HB 1427). So, this throws a […]
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