300 booing is somehow more important than 10,000 delegates
Former Hill staffer Charles Barone wrote early this morning that a video of Barack Obama’s speech to the NEA Representative Assembly last week was being watched closely by “Congressional staff and education policy folks.” Barone highlights a point in the speech where Obama says he is in favor of performance pay and where you can […]
Sunday cartoon
“Because of the outcry from the public, the superintendent has stopped pushing us to focus on so-called bubble kids. The fad now is uniforms for all children. Star Trek is this year’s theme. Johnny, Sue, and Gene, you’ll be wearing the red shirts.”
Plodding as a survival strategy
There’s something about work-related socialization: after being sick earlier this week and the holiday, something in my brain told me I had to spend at least half a day working. I am sure that within 20 or 30 years, a neuropsychologist will be able to tell me why I have this impulse. (And I am […]
Sara Goldrick-Rab keeps things in perspective
So what do you do when your new career as an assistant professor lands you on the front page of the New York Times as an icon of the “moderating” professoriate? If you’re Sara Goldrick-Rab, you laugh a bit about the article’s oversimplification and then enjoy the attention. And hope for a bit of time […]
Hair-ripping time in standards review
It’s a legal holiday, so no paid work is on the agenda. On the other hand, I feel that it’s my duty as someone trained in history to review the draft social studies standards for Florida, so this falls under citizenship, not work. I’m looking at the third-grade benchmarks in world history, and this appears […]