Multiple issues in multiple measures
In his July 30 statement at the National Press Club, House Education and Labor Committee Chair George Miller said that his plans for reauthorizing the No Child Left Behind Act included the addition of multiple measures, an incantation that has provoked more Sturmunddrang in national education politics than if Rep. Miller had stood at the podium […]
Graduation measure workshop for AERA?
Earlier in the summer, I toyed with the idea of putting together one of the pre-AERA intensive workshops on measuring graduation. I didn’t have time at the end of July to finish it, but AERA’s program chairs have kept the proposal window up through early September. Practical question: would anyone be interested in such a […]
ACTA’n up
It took four days for ACTA’s blog to respond to the Center for Responsive Politics’ report on political giving within higher education. And, true to form, the entry attempted to link contributions to classrooms: Intellectual diversity is not, of course, reducible to party affiliation, and the professoriate’s campaign contributions do not themselves tell us what happens […]
Organizing charter-school teachers, Chicago style
According to a CATALYST article from April (belated hat tip), the Chicago Teachers Union is organizing teachers in charter schools. I wish I had known of it in the spring, to give a shout out to the national AFT organizer on the ground, Rob Callahan. Good luck, Rob!
One manuscript submission, four hours
I have just changed the projected submission turnaround time for EPAA to reflect my reality, and here’s a reason for that reality: I just spent four hours crafting a response to a manuscript submission. In this particular case, I think the manuscript is publishable with work, but it does need work, and I needed to […]