Duct tape and sand
From Stanley Fish’s blog today, disapproval for Lee Bollinger’s comments last week at the Ahmadinejad speech: The obligation of a senior administrator is to conduct himself or herself in such a way as always to bring honor and credit to the institution he or she serves. Just what this general imperative requires will vary with […]
Academic freedom and administrators
Dean Dad has an important dissent from the oft-expressed views that administrators ain’t got no academic freedom, as Stanley Fish might claim. DD points out the legitimate restrictions on what administrators can say:
On communicating math standards
Florida’s Board of Education has recently approved new state standards in math, and I think it’s the most constructive long-term decision the board has made in years. My judgment isn’t based on the fact that I’m a friend and colleague of one member of the group that drafted the new standards. I looked at the […]
NAEP scores out
The National Assessment of Educational Progress (2007) scores are out, and here’s a quick response on reading for the country and Florida: 1) The U.S. Department of Education report focuses on feel-good comparisons with 2005, when looking back further gives a different picture. Yes, in fourth grade reading for the country’s children, the average scale score has […]
If I had a million hours
By Sherman Dorn on September 29, 2007
My life this week brings the Barenaked Ladies song to mind: Watching nervously over the state budget situation and engaging in various tasks around that Finishing and submitting my promotion portfolio Assigning and circulating manuscripts for Education Policy Analysis Archives… and receiving a bunch of yes and no responses that require some individual attention (without […]
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