Textbook prices
University of Texas-Austin accounting Professor Michael Granof has a fascinating proposal for textbook licensing arrangements that is a sensible response to some of the nuttier proposals to address the real textbook-price problem.We had an impractical suggestion come out of the legislature in Florida this spring, but it fortunately died at the end of the session. […]
Political involvement, proxies of
A new report on political giving by higher-education employees is sure to provoke more fallacious arguments about politics and academe. Some things to keep in mind: The report includes data on all higher-ed employees, and is about all giving. Without more information (which the Center on Responsive Politics wouldn’t have), we don’t know how much of […]
A conversation with Doug Christensen
The audio (mp3) of a discussion last Saturday among Nebraska Education Commissioner Doug Christensen, Maryland teacher Ken Bernstein, and me is now available online. The discussion was recorded at a session of YearlyKos in Chicago.
Raul Hilberg, 81
Holocaust historian Raul Hilberg died over the weekend. I never met him, but he deeply affected my understanding of history and human cruelty. As a child raised in a American Jewish household in the 1960s and 1970s, I was exposed to the first generation of Holocaust education. (I didn’t know until a few years ago […]
Florida no longer has the silliest school calendar
By Sherman Dorn on August 7, 2007
As the Dayton Daily News observes, Believe it or not, school’s back in… in Ohio. Thanks to a state law, Florida public schools cannot open earlier than two weeks before Labor Day, a move to forestall the nutty shoving of the school calendar further back into the Sweaty Season to eke out a few more weeks before […]
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