Stiff spats over charter schools
Reading Leo Casey’s complaint about anti-union charter schools named after Cesar Chavez, including his rebuttal to Andy Rotherham’s comment, and then Sara Mead’s response, plus Joe Williams’ dismissal of Casey’s interpretation of a blurb in the Fordham Gadfly that complains about teachers unions wanting to organize charter schools, I feel as if I’m hearing one of those […]
Loss of the Weekly World News
It’s true, dear readers. The Weekly World News is ceasing publication at the end of August. (Hat tip.) There goes the end of the great litany of newspaper readership analyses (which varies by country): The Washington Times is read by the people who run the country. The Washington Post is read by the people who think they […]
Ward, not redux
So Colorado’s Regents have fired Ward Churchill. I’ve written about this at other times, but let me summarize things briefly: The beginning of the investigation was political. There were legitimate challenges to Churchill’s research record, some identified before and some sent to Colorado after the political furor began. The charges tied to Churchill’s speech rights were […]
There go the plans for campus security
Not much is left untouched by impending budget cuts in Florida. First to go were plans for better security on college campuses, as a South Florida Sun-Sentinel article describes.
Appointment snafus
By Sherman Dorn on July 24, 2007
The first problem with the morning, my putting one appointment down for 9 am instead of 10, is entirely my problem, but I’ve had to cancel a 10:30 meeting in another part of town for it. Not fatal, just mortifying. The second problem is about an afternoon meeting and a conflict between the legitimate need […]
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