A Celtic love spoon for No Child Left Behind?
I know that the traditional fifth anniversary gift is wood, but do you really think a Celtic love spoon is right for NCLB, and what would be a better gift? (Update: One colleague’s suggestion: a baseball bat.) With the fifth anniversary of the law’s signing in 2002 (but it’s called the No Child Left Behind […]
Lack of perspective at the American Historical Association
Yesterday was eventful at the third day of the American Historical Association annual meeting in Atlanta but not in a good way. Police arrested Tufts faculty member Felipe Fernandez-Armesto for jaywalking and put him in jail until the prosecutors dropped charges, embarrassed. The AHA business meeting failed to approve a strongly-worded measure opposing campus speech […]
EdWeek and marketing
Michael Kirst’s analysis of this year’s Quality Counts from Education Week seems absolutely on target: they wanted to do something more ambitious, partly because they now have Chris Swanson and partly because they didn’t want to do the same ol’ analysis of K-12 policies. The clincher on the marketing gig is the tagline at the top […]
Collective bargaining database: accurate?
There’s been some chatter in the edublogule about the National Council on Teacher Quality collective bargaining database, which claims to summarize key provisions of collective bargaining agreements in the largest 50 school districts. (Hat tip: Eduwonk.) But is the database accurate? I quickly found one goof with reference to the Hillsborough school district in Florida […]
Situational attention deficit
By Sherman Dorn on January 5, 2007
In the last day, I’ve had the worst problems concentrating on any task for more than about 10 minutes at a time. Part may be a bit of a cold: I have the standard slight bone-weariness I associate with a cold, plus a touch of congestion. Part may be induced by lack of sleep: I […]
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