Department of Something
I’ve wanted to respond to an early August post of Timothy Burke’s for a few months, but I’ve been swamped with a number of other tasks, and it took an early Saturday morning of some other mundanities to justify my splurging on this reply. This really started with Mark Bauerlein, so you can complain to him […]
The b-word and education politics
Blogger KDeRosa calls George Miller “a Whiny Bitch” (hat tip), which makes me wonder where this performative name-calling came from (see Andy Rotherham’s running joke about Rick Hess, though I don’t know where that came from, either, and I thought it would be more appropriate to call him Rick “Baby” Hess, since that’s the interjection he uses […]
Five-Year Plans and Ed Trust flexibility
Trust it to AFT’s Michele McLaughlin to find the hidden item in the Ed Trust statement on Miller-McKeon’s draft Title I language. Like many others, I had focused on the more belligerent language earlier: Although the staff draft creates an accountability fig-leaf by preserving the requirement that all students reach proficiency in reading and mathematics […]
Center-right education fellowships
Two items of note regarding center-right education folks: The Fordham Fellows blog has just started up. I expect it to have lots of interesting discussions. The Education Entrepreneur Fellowship at Indianapolis’s The Mind Trust. It’s a two-year stint with office space, travel support, and networking opportunities for a few people with provocative ideas they want […]
Call for papers: Politics, Activism, and the History of America’s Public Schools
Forwarded from an e-mail, an opportunity for graduate students and new scholars in the history of education. “Politics, Activism, and the History of America’s Public Schools”A Conference Celebrating the 40th Anniversary of The Irony of Early School Reform, April 12, 2008 University of Pennsylvania Upon its publication, Professor Michael B. Katz’s The Irony of Early […]