Steve Spurrier’s tantrum
University of South Carolina football coach Steve Spurrier wants the University of South Carolina to lower its admissions standards for football players to whatever the minimum is for NCAA athletes. Steve, we might be more sympathetic to this ploy if South Carolina’s freshman graduation rate for African-American football players entering in 1999-2000 were higher than 38% (compared with […]
YearlyKos
I’m @ the Midway airport, waiting to board. Good trip, combining friends, touristing, politics, union stuff, academics, and even a bunch of cool new t-shirts. Packed 50 hrs! I’ll blog more extensively when I get home and take care of some other tasks, but I had a good time. The session with Nebraska’s commissioner of […]
The celebrity-faculty fallacy
As noted in The Gradebook, Stanley Fish has now waded into ($) the Florida higher-ed funding battle. Like many of our fellow Florida faculty, Fish says we can’t simultaneously have great, universal, and really cheap higher education. Yet Kevin Carey has a point: Fish’s proposed solution is a search for celebrity faculty: Five straight years of steadily […]
Sara Mead: We gotta walk the walk
Last night, former Education Sector staff member Sara Mead wrote an important blog entry as a guest for Eduwonk. She pointed out that teachers unions are not the opponents to a number of reforms supported by Andy Rotherham (Eduwonk), Joe Williams (Democrats for Education Reform), and others such as charter-schools and performance pay. Liberal education […]