Minor thoughts on teaching
Minor peeves (and solutions): utilize (solution: use) impact used as a transitive verb (solutions: influence, shape, affect, etc.) in order to (solution: to) When authors, to follow their own train of thought, including every tangent they traveled, such as when I tried Walgreens a few days ago when I couldn’t find what I wanted at […]
Ambitions derailed…
It’s about 6:30 p.m. on July 3. I think I’m over the cold, but I’m still snowed under, right before a holiday weekend. Tomorrow is for citizenship, but I think I’ll have to dig myself out from under the backlog over the weekend. As a result, blogging is likely to be either light over the […]
Goodbye, Edison Schools
A few days ago, I was invited to a phone conference with Edison Schools, the former Chris Whittle/Benno Schmidt operation that would be an “educational management organization” and operate hundreds of schools by the end of this decade. A few years ago, the state of Florida’s pension fund bought a stake in a private-equity firm […]
Summer colds
Sign of a head cold: when you get about 20% of what you expected done in the morning. So I took the afternoon off and for the first time in more than a year, took sick leave. That’s rare for faculty, since we have flexible schedules. But I figured that if I was going to […]
SREB report on college funding may be outdated
On page 46 of the Southern Regional Education Board‘s report on the region’s education system is a graph on Florida’s public four-year funding, and it purports to show a 14% increase in per-student state funding (an 11% decrease after adjusting for inflation) from 2001 to 2007. According to the SREB’s page on the state data […]