Squeak if you gave one to/got one from OLPC
I have an agreement with my family: I don’t work on holidays. I can do lots of fun or worthwhile things that are tangentially connected to work, but nothing that really could be considered work for something I am assigned. But I did something a little before 6 am yesterday morning that was both civically […]
Veterans Day
My father was a veteran, the base pediatrician for George AFB in the late 1950s. My maternal grandfather was a veteran, cooking for troops in Europe after the WW1 armistice. I’m not a veteran, and neither are any of my siblings or my cousins. We came of age in Vietnam and then held our breath […]
Finger-pointing 101
Charles Barone responds to news of the delay of NCLB reauthorization with a lament that (at least in his view) unions are crowing over a political victory. He broadens the field a tiny bit and then engages in a touch of nostalgia for times that never were: …in the education arena, there was a time […]
Who will defend faculty on a non-ideological basis?
Erin O’Connor has rightly criticized the assignment of an associate provost to watch a class in a blog entry titled How to destroy a teacher. She frames it as “a caricature of how the campus thought police destroy the learning environment for both students and teachers.” In a comment I left on the entry, I […]
Janie’s mother endorses cliff-diving
“You’re too young for make-up, Sweetie. Wait ’til you’re sixteen.”“I’m not Janie’s mother. I don’t do this to be mean.”“If those clothes fit any tighter, you would bust out every seam!”When did my mother slip inside of me?— Brenda Sutton, Mama’s Hands For those of you who truly wanted a test of the famous parental […]