Volunteers for Florida Education Wars
[Corrected July 14: HT.]The application period has closed, and the following have tossed their hat into the ring for Florida’s Commissioner of Ed Spot: Dannett Babb G Ellis Gary Henry Hastings Robert Jennings John Jones, Jr. James Kador Emanuel J Klimis Joseph Marinelli Joseph A Molloy William J Moloney John O’Sullivan, Jr. Simon Priest Joram […]
Read the law, Inky editorial board!
So the Philly Inquirer’s editorial board thinks No Child Left Behind should include graduation rates? (HT: NEA’s NCLB blog.) AYP already does: … [AYP] includes graduation rates for public secondary school students (defined as the percentage of students who graduate from secondary school with a regular diploma in the standard number of years) … (1111(B)(2)(c)(vi)) Wince. Wince. […]
Objectivists objected to?
FIRE‘s Tara Sweeney succinctly describes the problems with Ashland University’s denial of tenure to classicist John Lewis. Ashland University was perfectly happy to take a $100K gift from the Anthem Foundation for Objectivist Scholarship. When institutional leaders are willing to take the money and run, claims that special institutional missions trump lay notions of academic […]
How to reduce remediation costs
An article in Inside Higher Ed this morning on the Education Commission of the States meeting in Philadelphia focuses on two topics. One is unit records, of which I’ve written before, and there is no real surprise, which is that state leaders feel that they have their own unit records databases (which they do, for […]
Wasted another perfectly good hour…
By Sherman Dorn on July 12, 2007
Other fans of Car Talk will recognize the title phrase that Tom and Ray Magliozzi use at the end of their show, and right now the number one site on a Google search leads to another blogger’s noting the dissipation of time. In my case today, I had glorious intentions to spend the whole day […]
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