Travel-time Saturday
Profgrrrrl is off to Thailand for a month. My son and mother are coming back from Arizona, where they spent a week on and around the Colorado River. (My mother just called me from the Houston airport on layover.) I have been grading student work today so I have a little less on my plate […]
Tax cuts and adequate school funding
Florida Governor Charlie Crist has signed into law the statutory part of the proposed Florida property-tax reform and cut. The law that Crist signed is an immediate roll-back in non-school local property taxes. The next issue is a proposed constitutional amendment on the January 29 presidential primary ballot that would create a different structure for […]
Scimus quae legis, et non dicimus
There is now a t-shirt for the (thus far fictional?) Guild of Radical Militant Librarians. Oh, I guess I’ll have to translate: “We know what you read, and we’re not telling.”
Don’t Know Much about NCLB (but have opinions)
The ETS poll on attitudes towards No Child Left Behind Act is garnering quite a bit of attention, such as from Ed Week. I love pollsters’ schizophrenia, simultaneously asserting that the public doesn’t know much about NCLB but then talking about public opinion blithely (or is it breezily?). The statement designed to gauge how much […]
The right context on merit pay?
Sam Dillon’s Times story on merit pay has one inherent hypothesis, framing the growth of merit pay as the erosion of union opposition to performance pay. I suppose you could look at it that way, but I don’t think that’s accurate. For many years, my own faculty union (the United Faculty of Florida) was both an affiliate […]