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 […]
Writing or faux writing?
Recent events have brought home the fact that the Florida Department of Education expanded the performance writing exam for students in 4th, 8th, and 10th grades so that they have to answer compartmentalized grammar questions that I thought were obsolete: identify the correctly-puncuated sentence, fill in the blank with the right word, etc. As my […]
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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