How to reduce remediation costs
An article in Inside Higher Ed this morning on the Education Commission of the States meeting in Philadelphia focuses on two topics. One is unit records, of which I’ve written before, and there is no real surprise, which is that state leaders feel that they have their own unit records databases (which they do, for […]
Writing or faux writing?
Recent events have brought home the fact that the Florida Department of Education expanded the performance writing exam for students in 4th, 8th, and 10th grades so that they have to answer compartmentalized grammar questions that I thought were obsolete: identify the correctly-puncuated sentence, fill in the blank with the right word, etc. As my […]
Academic joke
In lieu of content today, a joke: A political science professor, a mass comm professor, and a math professor were watching the news together. “To know the president and just get off like that, scot-free?” asked the political scientist. “I want to be Scooter Libby.” “You got it wrong, Jane,” said the mass comm professor. […]
When have you had online "aha" moments reacting to others?
For the first time in five years, my distance-learning course is asynchronous, without a live chat, and this poses an interesting challenge. Oh, heck, let me be honest: at some level I’m terrified at the prospect of an asynchronous-only class, because my teaching style relies heavily on the timed revelation of material and ideas, commonly in […]
Wasted another perfectly good hour…
By Sherman Dorn on July 12, 2007
Other fans of Car Talk will recognize the title phrase that Tom and Ray Magliozzi use at the end of their show, and right now the number one site on a Google search leads to another blogger’s noting the dissipation of time. In my case today, I had glorious intentions to spend the whole day […]
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