Media mayhem in Miami
Today’s Miami Herald tells the story of Miami Sunset Senior High business and technology teacher Donna Reddick, whose anti-homosexuality comments in a student-journalist video series have sparked discussion of whether out-of-classroom remarks by school employees in a student-journalism project is protected speech or makes it difficult for her to teach gay students (or, more properly, […]
Arizona SB1331 dead
The Arizona Senate defeated Senate Bill 1331, what I called the pederast’s academic bill of rights, on a 17-12 vote yesterday. (Tip of the hat to Inside Higher Ed on that.)
Chug chug chug…
SafeAssignment (the plagiarism-checking software my institution uses) is back to checking papers, albeit slowly. I suspect their client list grew more quickly than their capacity, but the problems are irritating to me as a faculty member.
The ‘Wild West of entrepreneurs’
In today’s New York Times, a report on the borderline ethics of NCLB-funded tutoring companies. This is on top of the failure to hold tutoring companies accountable for actual instruction. So when will accountability stop being a double-standard game where private players are assumed to be above accountability?
Performing masculinity in academe
By Sherman Dorn on March 10, 2006
Some time ago, a colleague of mine called another colleague (one I respect for several good reasons) a “number one asshole.” This wasn’t to his face but to me, at the tail end of a discussion about something my colleague (the insulting one) is rather stressed over (unrelated for the most part to the insulted […]
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