Defending Ward Churchill??
A group of academics have now started signing a petition defending Ward Churchill, calling themselves Teachers for a Democratic Society. Essentially, the petition makes the argument both that the process leading to Churchill’s dismissal has been flawed (and presumably will be flawed even though Churchill is in the middle of an appeal process with the […]
Spanking Stanley Fish
Stanley Fish is perfectly entitled by academic freedom and our more general freedoms in this country to believe that There’s No Such Thing as Free Speech… and It’s a Good Thing, Too, but he’s not entitled to misstate the record on Kevin Barrett without expecting some criticism. Fish claims that there is a dichotomy of […]
The Little Professor whomps on the CHE anonymous columns
Miriam Burstein (aka The Little Professor) whacks the anonymous dyspeptic column for 6. Best academic snark I’ve seen in a while (and I have access to high-quality academic snark).
Cut scores and democracy
This evening, I’ve been trying to boil down the controversy over cut scores (jump-started by Gene Glass in 1978, in the first wave of minimum-competency tests), and I’ve been trying to pay close attention to the counter-arguments. The one that pulls at me most is one advanced separately by Michael Scriven and James Popham in […]
Frederick Mosteller, 1916-2006
By Sherman Dorn on July 24, 2006
ASU educational researcher and statistician Gene Glass just distributed a notice by Gale Mosteller of her father’s death yesterday. Fred Mosteller was truly one of the giants in 20th century statistics, right along with John Tukey (Mosteller’s frequent collaborator). My friend and former fellow history grad student Tim Hacsi was at Harvard several years ago […]
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