Grant applications, one rejection and one improvement
This is not only the week of graduation-rate reports, it’s also the week of receiving news on two grant applications. The short precís sent to the U.S. Department of Education’s unsolicited research competition was rejected (i.e., they didn’t want a full proposal), and unfortunately a review of the recommended regular competition for the next fiscal […]
It’s the idea, stupid, not the network
And this morning, I get to combine two major topics of this blog, academic freedom and (mostly K-12) education policy, with the following message: a social network is not a conspiracy, but it can embody a worldview.