Banning travel to Cuba
Inside Higher Ed has finally reported on the Florida bill that would ban travel to countries labeled as supporting terrorism using funds that go through public colleges or universities. I’ve heard conflicting responses from fellow faculty around the state—not about the wisdom of the policy, which most would recognize is an infringement on several areas […]
Ward Churchill’s response
Via Inside Higher Ed and Churchill defender John Moredock comes news of Ward Churchill’s response to the investigating committee’s report. A little over one page of the six-page response concerns the substantive allegations. Readers can judge for themselves whether this is a great scholar responding to a witchhunt or a continuation of the mendacity that […]
Peace! Peace!
True to form, my May has been utterly crazy-busy, enough that I am both relieved I am not teaching this summer and a bit ashamed that I haven’t done more writing. (It comes from my children’s birthdays, my wife’s and my anniversary, the end of the K-12 school year in Tampa, and my need to […]
Data and noise in high-stakes testing
Via Eduwonk, a thoughtful reflection on the graduation-exam lawsuit in California. The blogger, T.M.A.O., has a response that’s full of interesting tensions. For example, there’s the criticism of problematic high-stakes testing… Like the outcome of a presidential election with pervasive voter fraud, the results of a high school exit exam emerging from a grossly unjust […]
More grad rates debates
Via NCLBlog comes the tip of Jay Mathews’s story today on the grad-rate debate, along with sidebars by Mishel and Roy and Greene and Winters, respectively. Greene and Winters are pegging most of their rebuttal on an accounting argument that asks where about half a million graduates are, if you accept their claims about how […]