On funding transparency
Education Sector‘s website is very open about its funding sources, and occasionally staff members (primarily Andrew Rotherham) tweak public figures in education circles for not being transparent. Fair enough.
Editorial marker/to-do list
If it’s a Monday morning during the academic year (and, yes, I’m already on contract), it’ll be journal management stuff—engaging in the type of detail that can drive an editor to drink be glad that an online journal system exists. We’re behind in publishing English-language articles right now because authors who need to answer queries […]
Cookie cutting and teaching
Barbara Stengell has a thoughtful piece on teaching models over at The Wall that makes some nice points about the teacher-crusader meme you occasionally hear in anti-ed-school rants. “Why can’t folks be taught to be like Jaime Escalante, Rafe Esquith, or Jason Kamras?” This is not serious criticism of ed schools, and it’s sort of […]
The AFT and organizational politics
There’s been various bits of commentary (e.g., Andrew Rotherham on Mike Antonucci’s analysis and filtered excerpts of a consultant report that focused on AFT headquarters staff. The most (potentially) explosive comment quoted by Antonucci: I have heard bold, outright lies told to large audiences.
Performative masculinity, or not, in academe
By Sherman Dorn on August 13, 2006
I’m not like Timothy Burke or even Michael Bérubé in the whole performativity of gender in academe thing, or as the case may be, performative masculinity in extracurricular activities through using chainsaws or at least renting them out in a chivalrous gesture before giving up and calling the tree folks (and here I mean the […]
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