The penultimate-policy fallacy (the reverse of "fighting the last war")
Florida’s universities are facing an interesting mix of budget pressures in the short term, with some possibility for substantial improvement in about 2-3 years but also a serious Sword of Damocles in a property-tax referendum in January and short-term misery if a state-level budget-reduction exercise is handled poorly (or illegally: by law, higher ed shouldn’t […]
Appearing in Chicago on education policy…
On August 3 and 4, I’m talking in the Hyatt McCormick Place Convention Center at YearlyKos, the convention sprout of partisan DailyKos, on the panels Education Uprising: Education for Democracy (Friday afternoon, 1-2:15) and Rethinking Educational Accountability (Saturday morning, 10:30-11:30). Both are substantially the logistical work of teacherken, a fellow Haverford College graduate, an active […]
Wild young Danes
The last night of my trip to the Society for the History of Childhood and Youth conference, I walked through the center of Copenhagen and kept coming across young Danes in white hats, riding in decorated trucks, climbing the fountains of one of the central squares, and whooping it up (see the pictures below the […]
Norrköping trip photos, set 2
More photos from the Norrköping trip, just from the last evening in Copenhagen. I was exhausted by the end, but you should be able to identify the photographs related to my research. (I’ll highlight it in another entry in a few days.) Panoramic photograph of Kongens Nyrtorv (or King’s New) Square at sunset after the […]
Free trade doesn’t cover this one
By Sherman Dorn on July 5, 2007
The general principle with travel is to leave footprints and take pictures (and memories), so I didn’t return with much physical stuff, other than two Anders F. Rönnblom albums, two postcards, one book on international historical perspectives on child labor, and a copy of the Daily Mail to show my children what tabloid papers are […]
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