Bulleted ed-policy sliders
Charter-school report? PDK/Gallup poll? I’ve been preparing for the semester and don’t have time for a long entry on this, but here are a few quick (and idiosyncratic) perspectives on the big education news today: While the responses on the poll to reform vs. alternative system have remained somewhat consistent over the years Gallup has […]
Teen expectations: too little or too much?
Alexandra Robbins’ new book on elite college-prep students The Overachievers is sparking a grumpy response from Jay Mathews this morning (hat tip: Kevin Carey): Our real national problem is not that we ask most teens to do too much, but too little. (emphasis added) This is a century-long debate, going back to Progressive-era administrators who […]
Smooth work satisfies
Took a little bit of time to go out of the house to ChainCafé this afternoon to finish preparing an EPAA article for this week. Smooth… a few minor editorial changes, then the usual format issues (change hyphens to en-dashes where needed, expand the italicized text a bit) and send it off to the author […]
Galleys of Florida education reform book, take 2
Just arrived at my house: second set of galleys for Education Reform in Florida. Time to start checking them against the first set of galleys and then finish the indexing.
You know your server’s spam filter needs adjusting…
By Sherman Dorn on August 18, 2006
… when 90% of your e-mail on a Friday evening is spam. Usually, the tech gurus at my college require a few hours the next business morning to reconfigure the spam filters, but whatever the spammers did new happened on a Friday afternoon. Very smart, spammers. Very annoying.
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