Dueling grad rates
A Jay Greene dropout/graduation report, and then comes Lawrence Mishel’s counterargument! Then Edwize gets into the game! And then the AFT NFTBlog says there will be a debate between the primary authors hosted by the Center on Education Policy. It sounds a bit like a WWF match, but I need to confirm the existence of […]
I am not a caring teacher
While I’m grading this afternoon, I’ll borrow one of my entries from The Wall of Education, a multiblog I’m participating in. It’s my foray into an interdisciplinary discussion of ethics and caring, a critique of some notions from a cynical historian’s perspective. And since it’s our accreditation/review visit over the next few days, it also […]
Mental whiplash
Hint to student writers: don’t suddenly switch topics in the middle of the paper. My brain’s too old for that.
I’m not “for the children”
I’ve just finished reading a fine student paper, but it’s one one where the obligatory purple passage at the end spoke of the need to keep the children in mind—in this case, the student was skeptical of the value of vouchers. Just yesterday, Matt Ladner opined about the Oprah series, “But U.S. schools can get […]
My “to blog about” list
At the end of the semester, I put off plenty of voluntary things because the urgent items are, well, urgent. So commenting on passing ed policy debates is delayed, and I now have a long list of saved blog entries I’ll get back to in May. Case in point: Ed Sector’s interview with a Denver […]