The historians’ full employment act
ACTA has sent a letter to Arizona Governor Napolitano urging that the state require that undergraduates take history, something that is discussed in an Arizona Republic article today as well as in an ACTA blog entry. As any history department website in Texas will tell you, Texas has a core curriculum, and if I remember […]
Why teacher unions
Leo Casey has a great autobiographical entry on his entry into union activism. Hat tip to Sara Mead. Leo finishes with a discussion about the intertwining of teachers’ and students’ lives and contrasting that fact with claims that teachers and unions are only about material self-interest. Reframing the self-interest claim would be healthy for the […]