Anonymous diploma registration
This afternoon, I give a presentation at the Minnesota Population Center, “The Graduation-Rate Debate, Higher-Education Unit Records, and Public Policy: Serious Academic Discussion, Political Tragedy, or Farce?” The MPC was very kind to ask me to stay after the conference here and be a seminar speaker. In the talk, I will present the idea of […]
Trains! (conference liveblogging)
Back at the Social Science History Association for an early-morning Sunday session. Going to a session Sunday morning at 8:15 is one of those character tests, largely because a large chunk of a weekend conference has either left or is in the process of checking out of a hotel and getting to the airport. I’m […]
Race, ethnicity, and public audiences (conference liveblogging and random ruminations)
This afternoon, I’m at another paper session at the Social Science History Association (SSHA) meeting in Minneapolis. This paper session is about the construction of race relations and various constructors’ “publics.” (Audiences and Publics is the theme for this year, and a core of panels has this theme as the organizing concept.) (Session details in […]
Teachers and their publics (conference liveblogging!)
I’m in Minneapolis this weekend at the Social Science History Association annual meeting, currently at an early-morning session on teachers and crafting professional identities. (Session details in the full entry.)
Gallaudet protests and trenches
One of the remarkable things about the Gallaudet student protests in the last few weeks is how rare such direct-action protests are in K-12 education. I was speaking with a student today about Ira Katznelson’s City Trenches (1981) and realized that his point about the channeling of conflict into routinized paths is true of K-12 […]