Under scrutiny
In this morning’s IHE article on Ward Churchill, we read one of the two serious arguments put forward by Churchill’s defenders: James Craven, a professor of economics at Clark College, in Washington State, said that Churchill was subjected to a level of scrutiny that few professors have ever faced or could withstand. “How many scholars […]
Ward, redux(ionist)
University of Colorado President has drafted a letter that would recommend that the university regents fire Ward Churchill. I’ll admit that the comment on IHE’s story by “Frizbane Manley” is hilarious, far better than any of Churchill’s writings. I hereby recommend that Manley get tenure as a IHE commentator. Oh, wait. You probably were expecting […]
Americas secondary enrollment trace, late 20th c.
Thanks to a a great Excel chart tip, I can now provide one way of summarizing synthetic-cohort educational attainment data from the following countries using census data from the second half of the 20th century: Brazil Chile Colombia Costa Rica Ecuador Those born in Mexico and enumerated in either Mexico or the U.S. in 1960, […]
Holding my fingers back, regretfully
I’d love to type a few hundred words on the major testing story in Florida this week, the Department of Education’s acknowledgment Wednesday that they blew the scores on last year’s tests. But here’s why I haven’t: This summer I’m teaching in Sarasota Wednesday evenings, and all that afternoon and evening I was either prepping, […]
Excel zen
By Sherman Dorn on May 26, 2007
I’m a fan of Edward Tufte in terms of information design, even if he did clash with Jakob Nielsen in an OK/Cancel superhero spoof of HCI gurus. Every year or so I dip into the website to see if there’s more stuff I need to learn. Tufte hates PowerPoint and Excel with a passion, though […]
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