Grading doggerel
profgrrl inspired me, even though I’m not teaching this summer: In grading some are at their best but others can get quite depressed when marking “wrong” and sometimes “right” and eat and grade all through the night. (Halvah’s great, but M&Ms feed the brain cells and the stem. What helps read mensch or plain mean […]
Thumb drives up for mobile students
One of the serious concerns for parents who are mobile—whether they carry arms in the military or pick vegetables in the fields—is the discontinuity of education for their children. One bureaucratic nightmare for parents is getting records transferred, which can take weeks depending on the systems involved. (See the advised checklists for military parents for […]
Another attempt at professionalization
Think teaching is the only field with calls to professionalize with more rigorous studies? Check out the Inside Higher Ed article today about engineering and the proposal by one emeritus engineering professor to make a graduate degree the entry to the field. See especially the historical perspective provided by Jane Robbins in her comment at […]
Students get on the case in California
Today’s San Jose Mercury-News reports on a student march demanding that the Williams settlement money go for teachers, texts, and toilets. I am betting that this will get significant play in California. It should in other areas, too.
Responses to Stanley Fish
The New York Times today published six letters to the editor responding to Stanley Fish’s column Sunday. On writer agreed with Fish, one wish he had gone further, and the other four disagreed. Margaret Soltan has more.