Dabbling, and not too well
I’m trying to get a few things done today, here and there, and I think I don’t concentrate that well when my family is in the house. Evidence: “historiography literature” in an e-mail I wrote, when historiography is the history literature (when it isn’t the study of the history literature). Can I just crawl into […]
Being thankful for the Supreme Court’s protection of free speech
As FIRE‘s William Creeley notes, not only can we be grateful for Supreme Court decisions protecting speech, such as the 64-year-old West Virginia v. Barnett case on the pledge of allegiance, but we also have an interesting retrospective on the case, including the two children (now much older, of course). I need to finish editing […]
Clinton pulled towards culture
The headline for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer run of an AP story, Clinton raps teacher merit pay, is apt in one way: While I don’t think you’ll ever see Senator Clinton rapping, she is running towards her husband’s small-to-vanishing idea of focusing on culture rather than policy. She backed away from performance-pay ideas and talked about […]
Far behind and loving it
I’m still in post-travel work-lag, which for me lasts longer than jetlag. Not including personal projects I have student work to read, journal editing to do, union stuff, university governance projects, follow-ups to this weekend’s conference, several side projects (one of them suggested by someone who wants me to be more effective at journal editing-thanks […]
Richard Vedder’s manifesto
Richard Vedder’s “report” Over Invested and Under Priced will probably get some play in the press over the next few days (though the short Thanksgiving week will probably swallow most education stories this week), and in my view it is probably best to see it as Vedder’s manifesto: what’s wrong with higher education and what […]