Research project on former methamphetamine users in college (women only)
I normally do not pass on requests for research participation, but this is a sensitive topic where participation will require more than the usual outreach, and because it addresses the conditions for former substance users in attending college, it certainly fits this blog. This announcement is for those who live in the central Florida area: […]
Multiple issues in multiple measures
In his July 30 statement at the National Press Club, House Education and Labor Committee Chair George Miller said that his plans for reauthorizing the No Child Left Behind Act included the addition of multiple measures, an incantation that has provoked more Sturmunddrang in national education politics than if Rep. Miller had stood at the podium […]
Graduation measure workshop for AERA?
Earlier in the summer, I toyed with the idea of putting together one of the pre-AERA intensive workshops on measuring graduation. I didn’t have time at the end of July to finish it, but AERA’s program chairs have kept the proposal window up through early September. Practical question: would anyone be interested in such a […]
ACTA’n up
It took four days for ACTA’s blog to respond to the Center for Responsive Politics’ report on political giving within higher education. And, true to form, the entry attempted to link contributions to classrooms: Intellectual diversity is not, of course, reducible to party affiliation, and the professoriate’s campaign contributions do not themselves tell us what happens […]
The Library of Congress has webcast notices by feed
By Sherman Dorn on August 16, 2007
The Library of Congress webcasts looks like an amazing collection of lectures available through RealPlayer, and the announcements on the relevant pages are now fed through rss. I wish that LOC had automated the system so that they would be podcasted, but I suppose you can’t have everything.
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