Transparent aluminum bargaining
For some reason, a little spat has erupted in the ed policy blogule (blogospherelet? blogosphericle? ) over how transparent unions are when bargaining. Andrew Rotherham operationalized this wonkishly into whether contracts are online, at which point John at NCLBlog said there were plenty of teachers union contracts online, Rotherham said most of those are on […]
The pederast’s academic bill of rights
Arizona SB 1331 has generated quite a bit of discussion in the state and elsewhere for its proposed mandate of alternative readings and coursework in case a student objects to curriculum on grounds of belief. It passed the state senate’s higher-ed committee 5-2 on February 15 and is currently on today’s agenda in the senate’s […]
Spellings commission chat
This morning I’m in the heart of Disney at the joint NEA/AFT higher education summit. In contrast with last weekend, I really only need three extra days this weekend to get things done (I wanted six extra days last weekend), but I’m here. And before I exercise and head out to today’s sessions (no, I’m […]
Warning on plagiarism software
For anyone who teaches at a university contracting with Safe Assignment‘s plagiarism-detection service, please note that those of us at USF have had several serious problems with the service in the past week, from the failures to pass off cookies smoothly from Blackboard to Safe Assignment’s server to far more serious problems, a corrupted database […]