The politics of cut scores
Yesterday, the St. Petersburg Times published Letitia Stein’s story describing the twists and turns of setting cut scores in Florida’s 10th-grade tests. The deeper story is not the inherent tensions in setting cut scores. There’s no doubt that cut scores are arbitrary. The question is whether they are arbitrary in the sense of arbitrary and capricious […]
Clueless on K Street (PR efforts targetting bloggers)
(In reality, the firm that sent the following is in Arlington, Virginia, but I couldn’t resist the alliteration.) It’s amazing how the PR response to the existence of bloggers is not to change how one approaches publicity but to apply the same techniques (sending out press releases) to the new arena (bloggers). I suppose some bloggers […]
Off to Chicago today
This evening I board a plane for my one-day AERA adventure. My panel: “Semi-semiotic pandering pondering to laborious Laborite Labradors wanting wandering to two serious series of off quadrilateral extensions of path-codeficient metalinguistic metallurgical discourses of No Child Left Behind.” Sigh. Not only wasn’t that panel accepted, I didn’t even propose it. But I’m goin’ […]
A war against the empty thesis statement
To The Little Professor, who complains about student papers with the thesis statement declaring “many similarities and differences,” I say, I will join with you in this battle. In fact, I think I’ve been there all along, but I just didn’t know where the chain of command was. Lead on! My students don’t usually declare […]
Who wrote Frankenstein
By Sherman Dorn on April 15, 2007
Germaine Greer neatly shreds John Lauritsen’s argument that Mary Shelley didn’t write Frankenstein. Hat tip: Erin O’Connor. Also see Miriam Burstein’s comments.
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