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.
Conspiracy theories and NCLB
Among the dissenters from the No Child Left Behind Act are those who claim that the not-so-secret purpose of NCLB is to privatize education. Jerry Bracey and Jim Horn have written reasonably similar arguments, and Bracey’s contains the following elements: NCLB has unreasonable standards for AYP (100% proficiency by 2014) NCLB’s provisions shift funds to […]