Another double standard
It must be nice to be a big honcho in a publishing company that runs standardized tests. Your company earns millions from accountability laws, and with the exception of New York State’s Truth in Testing law, you’re pretty much scot-free of accountability yourself. And when asked… But some in the industry say regulation is unnecessary […]
Summers, teaching, and history
NYU historian of ed Jonathan Zimmerman has penned an article on Larry Summers that’s really about college teaching, and then University Diarist responded.
Victory on academic-freedom grievance
The last agreed-upon changes to the USF computer network user agreement were completed yesterday, so I can now explain that even though the university took more than nine months (285 days, to be precise), USF’s computer network guidelines no longer have speech codes embedded in them. I’m very surprised it took this long, but I […]
Where creationist battles are fought
An interesting little piece on Daily Kos today about the tendency of intelligent design creationists to target small towns—and the fiscal pain of the towns who agree to carry the banner for creationists. This has a long history, going back to John Scopes’ test of Tennessee’s anti-evolution law in Dayton, Tennessee, as a town boosterish […]
What didn’t happen this week
By Sherman Dorn on March 17, 2006
If I had been approached by a state’s minority legislative caucus staff earlier this year about whether I’d be interested in being asked to participate in a forum on ed policy, but they hadn’t been able to convince the sponsors to allow in those with views different from the state’s governor, then something like the […]
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