And the growth-to-obscurity award goes to…
Today, the U.S. Department of Education announced that Tennessee and North Carolina were given permission to include growth in AYP formulae. First notices by Andrew Rotherham, AFT NCLBlog, and Jim Horn, more coverage by the Washington Post and the New York Times. I’m very curious how the federal review team could have evaluated the technical […]
A little more on Ward Churchill
The comment thread on yesterday’s story on Churchill at Inside Higher Ed is rather interesting, in a watching-a-train-wreck sort of way, because the defenders of Churchill (look for Unapologetically Tenured and Timothy Shortell) could not (at least as by this morning) address the points of Ralph Luker and others: If the deliberate pace of the […]
ACTA exploits Ward Churchill (again)
The American Council of Trustees and Alumni just issued a “report” they call How Many Ward Churchills? I’ll give ACTA a 10 of 10 on the Horowitz Chutzpah Scale for trying to capitalize on the release schedule of the Churchill investigation report with a paper on a topic that was entirely unrelated either to the […]
Ward Churchill, redux—NOT!
Inside Higher Ed, the Rocky Mountain News, and the Associated Press (in the Washington Post) have covered the just-issued report on allegations of research misconduct by Ward Churchill at the University of Colorado. The accepted federal definition of research misconduct comprises plagiarism, fabrication, and falsification. And according to the faculty committee, Ward Churchill had a […]
Open access and citations
Citation Advantages of Open Access Articles by Gunther Eysenbach is now available at the Public Library of Science Biology journal (which is open-access). It continues a line of literature exploring the citation advantages of open-access publications. Thanks to Donna Martinez for pointing this out on the AERA-L listserv.