Of promotions and cranberry wine
I just finished the draft of my promotion-packet narratives. The whole thing is due at the end of the month, and apart from proofreading, there are other tasks to complete: Collect information on journals and my books’ publishers for my chair Collect and confirm grant information Check for consistency between tenure packet and cv Create […]
Department of Something
I’ve wanted to respond to an early August post of Timothy Burke’s for a few months, but I’ve been swamped with a number of other tasks, and it took an early Saturday morning of some other mundanities to justify my splurging on this reply. This really started with Mark Bauerlein, so you can complain to him […]
The b-word and education politics
Blogger KDeRosa calls George Miller “a Whiny Bitch” (hat tip), which makes me wonder where this performative name-calling came from (see Andy Rotherham’s running joke about Rick Hess, though I don’t know where that came from, either, and I thought it would be more appropriate to call him Rick “Baby” Hess, since that’s the interjection he uses […]
Five-Year Plans and Ed Trust flexibility
Trust it to AFT’s Michele McLaughlin to find the hidden item in the Ed Trust statement on Miller-McKeon’s draft Title I language. Like many others, I had focused on the more belligerent language earlier: Although the staff draft creates an accountability fig-leaf by preserving the requirement that all students reach proficiency in reading and mathematics […]
Unable to celebrate tomorrow
By Sherman Dorn on September 18, 2007
Tomorow’s my long day this semester, which is darned unfortunately, because otherwise I’d be worshipping the 18th letter of the alphabet for Talk Like a Pirate Day (song) (lyrics). I’m sure that there’s a good education policy joke in there somewhere, but it’s too late for my brain to figure it out.
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