Confederate flag flap in Tampa
The local Sons of Confederate Veterans has acquired a permit to raise a huge Confederate battle flag near a major highway intersection in Hillsborough County. Tampa hasn’t had such an embarrassing outbreak of nationally-visible racism for almost two decades. The last time you could sense a countywide wince was when the all-white, all-male sponsor of […]
Galaxy heeds Mike Petrilli
After Mike Petrilli’s opinion piece on the costs of teacher obesity, the Milky Way galaxy has issued a press release saying it is undergoing bariatric surgery. Said Way, “No one likes to give up the pleasures of the occasional ice cream or supernova, but I’m just getting too fat around the spirals. My doctors tell […]
Scheduled fragmentation is less stressful
Today is F day, as in fragmentation (so get your mind out of the gutter). It’s the first day of summer vacation for my children, but my teaching spouse is in for a final closeout day to finish her paperwork for the year. Or, rather, it’s the paid closeout day, since she may have to […]
Can we count graduation??
Ed Week has its annual graduation special issue online, Diplomas Count 2008. Joydeep Roy and Larry Mishel have a brand-new article out today criticizing Swanson’s measures as well as those of others, available at the ASU server or the epaa.info server for Education Policy Analysis Archives. (Disclosure: I’m the editor. And I’ve done some research […]
Academic freedom threats, the real version
The vet who writes My cat ate my homework has a poignant list of scientists whose academic jobs and sometimes lives have been threatened because they taught evolutionary science. (Hat tip.)