Al-Arian muddle
With the plea agreement (PDF) approved by the judge this week, it looks like the criminal proceedings against Sami Al-Arian are winding down (barring weird stuff that is actually somewhat likely). From the coverage in the local newspapers (St. Pete Times and Tampa Tribune), it may end the legal situation in as clear a case […]
Book review of Willinsky’s The Access Principle
Thanks to A.G. Rud for noting the online publication in Teachers College Record of Gene Glass and my review of John Willinsky’s The Access Principle (which you can download for free).
Details count for graduation rates
You ever realize belatedly that you should have paid more attention to something when you were distracted? I’m definitely getting that feeling today, as I’ve been working on projects that don’t require the data-that-with-luck-is-in-recovery from the hard disk crash Thursday morning. One of those is an article manuscript that will be up at Education Policy […]
New ed policy journal
Congrats to David Figlio and David Monk for the first two issues of Education Finance and Policy, which both became available online over the past month.
Usefully erroneous assumptions
By Sherman Dorn on April 19, 2006
One of the ‘baristas’ at Chain Café has just brought me a drink. I wonder why, apart from the fact that I’ve been a very loyal customer over the past n months. I wonder if they think my marriage is on the rocks and I come here as a respite from home. It isn’t—I’m working […]
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