Kershnar and pacing
FIRE reported today that SUNY Fredonia gave philosopher Stephen Kershnar a promotion to full professor that had been denied earlier this year because, well, administrators didn’t like Kershnar’s criticizing them in public. Good for Kershnar and everyone else who helped fight this. That’s a rapid turnaround on an academic freedom issue, relatively speaking, and good […]
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 […]