Organizing charter-school teachers, Chicago style
According to a CATALYST article from April (belated hat tip), the Chicago Teachers Union is organizing teachers in charter schools. I wish I had known of it in the spring, to give a shout out to the national AFT organizer on the ground, Rob Callahan. Good luck, Rob!
One manuscript submission, four hours
I have just changed the projected submission turnaround time for EPAA to reflect my reality, and here’s a reason for that reality: I just spent four hours crafting a response to a manuscript submission. In this particular case, I think the manuscript is publishable with work, but it does need work, and I needed to […]
Textbook prices
University of Texas-Austin accounting Professor Michael Granof has a fascinating proposal for textbook licensing arrangements that is a sensible response to some of the nuttier proposals to address the real textbook-price problem.We had an impractical suggestion come out of the legislature in Florida this spring, but it fortunately died at the end of the session. […]
Political involvement, proxies of
A new report on political giving by higher-education employees is sure to provoke more fallacious arguments about politics and academe. Some things to keep in mind: The report includes data on all higher-ed employees, and is about all giving. Without more information (which the Center on Responsive Politics wouldn’t have), we don’t know how much of […]
A conversation with Doug Christensen
The audio (mp3) of a discussion last Saturday among Nebraska Education Commissioner Doug Christensen, Maryland teacher Ken Bernstein, and me is now available online. The discussion was recorded at a session of YearlyKos in Chicago.