A new metaphor for school reform
My thanks to the artists of today’s Shoe comic strip, who provide a wonderful metaphor for school reform (though today’s strip is not about schooling). You try to avoid quick fixes, you’re in it for the long haul, you try to make adjustments along the way, even though you know it’s expensive, the whole thing […]
Constitution Day and academic freedom
On my union’s activist e-mail list this weekend is a thread on the Constitution Day mandate starting last year. Some are miffed by it, but there’s more than one interpretation of that requirement. From section 111(b) of the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2005 comes the following threat to our nation’s students, at least if you’re […]
Ban on academic travel to Cuba hurts U.S. scientific needs
Wonderful entry yesterday from Archives of the Scientific Activist on why the new law forbidding Florida public-university faculty from traveling to Cuba on any outside grant, let alone state funds, is foolish: it would prevent my marine-science colleagues from keeping track of pollution in future years when Cuba is expected to start drilling for oil.
Chapter 1 with identifiable holes
I spent a few hours writing and then more time organizing what remains to be done with chapter 1 (on the political origins of accountability) and then diving into the library for resources. So I’ll take home 10 books to read and an additional list of things to finish. But the first chunk of the […]
How graduation estimates vary by migration
It’s a bit late tonight for me to continue with some of the obligations I haven’t gotten to yet this week (several manuscripts to read/evaluate for EPAA, an EPAA article to begin preparing for publication, a student paper from an incomplete a while ago, a book review, a commentary on a lecture, and probably a […]