Speaking of college presidents…
It looks as though my alma mater, Haverford College, is about to pick its next leader. One brother-in-law teased me years ago that “Haverford” is what comes out of a drunken Harvard student’s mouth when asked where she or he attends, but there really isn’t a link between the announcement from Harvard yesterday and an […]
Grand coalitions in education?
Alexander Russo asserts today, If SEIU and Wal-Mart Can Do It, Education Can, Too. The argument, in brief: If the interests of SEIU and Wal-Mart allowed both to push for decoupling employment and health care, then is there another grand coalition out there involving teachers unions and education? First, a bit of background: SEIU’s members and […]
Delighted at Drew’s destiny
I’m one of the many people who has crossed paths with Drew Gilpin Faust over the years, and while Harvard is only one university, I’m very happy that Faust got picked as president. I never had a class with her when I was in grad school at Penn, but she was well-known for being serious […]
And now, a defense of boutique education
At the cost of alienating my new blog-buddy Alexander Russo, who a few days ago said, “Once in a while, Sherman Dorn and I agree about something,” I’m going to go in a slightly different direction from my gripe about the NCLB-and-gifted-ed argument Wednesday. Then, I argued that the defense of gifted education was an inappropriate […]
First page proofs of Accountability Frankenstein corrected
I misunderstood some of the directions on sending back corrections of page proofs, so finishing the first set of page proofs took a few extra hours I didn’t anticipate today. But I’ve sent the corrected PDFs back to the publisher, so Accountability Frankenstein is one more step to publication.