Salute to Chris Perez
A Fishy View of Education neatly skewers the flawed reasoning of Stanley Fish, for Fish believes in a very narrow view of free speech and academic freedom. Bravo.
Wrong questions on Ward Churchill
Yesterday, Aaron Barlow asked the political questions about l’affaire Churchill at Free Exchange on Campus. To Barlow, the central issue is the public perception of higher education. In responding to “those on all sides who try to make Churchill and his presumed guilt or innocence an emblem for their greater argument about academia,” So he […]
More on inflated Florida graduation stats
Today’s article by Margaret Susca on GED withdrawals in Florida (hat tip) again raises issues about an official measure that inflates graduation stats by making schools and districts unaccountable for students who drop out and enter a GED program. More from a 2004 John Merrow video segment More from a 2006 brief I wrote I’m back […]
Why vocabulary makes a difference
Notes on student misunderstandings of vocabulary, and how that affects performance: citation vs. quotation. One is acknowledging one’s sources, and the other is using exact passages and making those passages typographically distinct. Some students misunderstood my advice to cite several sources and turned in drafts where more than half of the words were quoted. I […]
Reading… but not what you think
Yes, I was at a local bookstore at midnight, getting two copies of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. But I’m in my office this afternoon, reading student papers. I don’t get the Harry Potter until I’m done. In other news, Jeff Solochek reports correctly that I’m now the representative of the Florida Coalition for […]