Domesday and depressing news
The Domesday Book is online, a wonderful boon to European history teachers everywhere. And New York teen Kiri Davis has replicated Kenneth Clark’s 1940s doll work in today’s Manhattan, with depressing results. (Jan. 24, 2014 note: You can watch Davis’s short documentary on Vimeo.) I hope it sparks additional discussion about the work of the […]
Prewritten lesson plans in Miami
Matt Pinzur’s Miami Herald story yesterday about lesson plans that the Miami-Dade system wrote for every grade, every subject for the beginning of the year (the first 10 days) is interesting. (Sample second-grade lesson in PDF.) The theory of action is that having pre-written plans will help teachers at the beginning of the year who […]
Will UCU respond to academic-freedom poll?
Expect a response this week from the University and College Union to the Times higher education supplement poll of academics in the UK indicating a large minority felt under pressure to limit their expression in teaching or research. The online article did not solicit any comment from the UK’s higher ed union, but I expect […]