The subtler points of charter schools and teachers unions
So I’m coming late to the “party” on the firing of Nichole Byrne Lau from a New York charter school. (More discussion by Leo Casey, AFT’s NCLBlog, Andrew Rotherham, Joe Williams, and Sara Mead.) There are a few aspects here that haven’t been covered yet, I think:
The trouble with Kevin Barrett
So after considerable pressure by politicians and talk radio, the University of Wisconsin-Madison will not be summarily dismissing religious studies adjunct Kevin Barrett, who believes that 9/11 was a conspiracy of non-religious, Machievellian-Straussian cynics who believe that hatred and hostility are what move the world. After the provost’s statement, Barrett appeared on Fox News’s Hannity […]
Increasing graduation, Part II
Last week, I did not include one important idea in discussing ways to increase graduation with in-school steps: credit-recovery programs, to allow students to earn high-school credits in a more intensive environment. Unfortunately, while the idea sounds good in abstract, I haven't seen any substantive evaluative research, just anecdotal stories or research in a credit-recovery […]
IHE column on the Spellings comission draft
If you followed the link to my blog after reading my Inside Higher Ed column, How To Succeed in Report Writing without Really Making Sense, welcome! Feel free to continue debating the ideas in the comments here. And look around—I write blog entries on education policy, academic freedom, my own research, and various other matters. […]
Spam translated into Valley Speak
By Sherman Dorn on July 10, 2006
While I’m recovering from a weekend camping trip, I’ll provide a translation of info-service spam e-mail into Valley Speak (my high school cohort’s putative SoCal lingo) via the inevitably flawed but fun internet filter: After readin’ your blog, fer shure, it is clear that education is like wow! an issue you care about. As your […]
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