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 […]