Poor teaching != indoctrination
The response to the AAUP’s statement Freedom in the Classroom (released September 11) has been fascinating, from Peter Wood and Stephen Balch’s tendentious attempt to fisk the report (thereby burying the legitimate criticisms) to Erin O’Connor’s more focused criticism to Stanley Fish‘s column this Sunday, where he takes the statement (rightly) to task for an inane […]
Sloppy reporting on college tuition
Michael Kirst’s blog is fairly typical in misreporting tuition trends: The College Board just reported that the average price for a college education once again rose faster than the inflation rate this year, particularly at public four-year institutions The cost of attending college is rising, as is student debt, but there are two ways in […]
On metaphors and people
A few days ago I commented on an Eduwonk entry about Michelle Rhee’s wanting more convenient dismissal options for non-unionized central-office staff… and teachers, in part to give some positive reinforcement for the decision to allow comments and in part because there are some interesting ideas in the entry that I wanted to follow up […]
The day I’ve been waiting for
Exercise. Catching up with my online class’s discussion board and adding the starter for a new thread. Reading and accepting three revised manuscripts for Education Policy Analysis Archives. Writing two (and with this, three) short blog entries. More small tasks to come. In other words, today has been a perfectly mundane day. I needed it.
1000
By Sherman Dorn on October 19, 2007
The first entry for this blog is dated March 24, 2001, with 2400 days between that entry and this one. (For those who check permalinks, there are two reasons why this entry is number 1053 instead of 1000: some entries get uploaded twice by mistake, so one copy must be deleted, and there is another, rather […]
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