Grades and puns
As I left the house this afternoon for Chain Cafe, I told my dear spouse, “I’m leaving for a few hours, hopefully to finish my grading.” I swear that the pun was unintentional (and she didn’t catch it until I groaned). I only had to wait half an hour before getting my pun-ishment: the rejection […]
Robert M. Franklin at Morehouse
Robert M. Franklin is the new president for Morehouse College, something that is of more importance to people than one might think for the presidency of a private liberal-arts college. Morehouse is an all-male college that is one of the elite historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs). Franklin’s view of the presidency as a moral […]
On Marilee Jones, resume-padding, and credentialism
Kevin Carey, meet Margaret Soltan. I’ll buy the coffees if you’ll have an entertaining discussion, okay? (I should’ve included the following in the entry originally…) Carey and Soltan have very different, very interesting slices on the Marilee Jones firing (for her lying about her education to get the MIT Admissions Dean’s job many years ago). […]
My unfavored things
Why do students sometimes have no clue about how word processors work? Why do they not … oh, well, let’s break into the End of Term Professor Musical Style (which Miriam Burstein aka The Little Professor does much better than I). Papers which use hard returns but not page breaks,Students who don’t even spellcheck as brain-fake,A […]
Not quite Robespierre
NYC Mayor Bloomberg and Chancellor Klein’s foolishness has now reached the point where Diane Ravitch described it simply as a sorry situation in NYC. The description is accurate with four years of revolving reorganizations and mandates. The Coalition To Put the Public Back in Public Education managed to achieve some significant changes in the planned re-re-reorganization of the […]