Who hates algebra?
I started this entry Feb. 19, as I was packing stuff to head home from Atlanta, but it got stuck in “have more urgent things to do” land. But now, to comment on Richard Cohen’s I hate math and am proud of it column, What is the value of algebra? Blog responses have included PZ […]
Migration and graduation, from NIH reviewer standpoint
Reviewer comments on my NIH proposal have come back, and the substantive comments make me smile. One of the weaknesses: potential problems associated with the measurement of population mobility. Bingo. I had submitted this proposal before I had finished the article manuscript I submitted in the summer, which sketches the relationship between mobility and graduation […]
Addicted to teaching
I finished the syllabus for my fall online class today—finding new hot-topic readings, changing the structure of assignments somewhat, eliminating the wiki, changing what the blog is used for, creating a different type of paper assignment, and adding a separate page for orienting students to discussion (leaving heavily on Brookfield and Preskill). Blackboard is now […]
Post-mortems, in real life
Some time ago, in one of the blogs on my ‘roll (I think Jenny D or Oh, Snap!), I read a bit about medical postmortems and a desire for such brutal honesty in education on where failures occur and what could be changed. (If you can point me to the blog in a comment, I’ll […]
Academics on notice
By Sherman Dorn on August 13, 2006
Look who’s on notice with Stephen Colbert: (Yes, you can generate your own “on notice” board. Fred Block? Nice guy. Doesn’t deserve to be on notice at all.)
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