Think, then blog
I’m occasionally embarrassed when a typo appears in a blog entry, and I’m frequently learning from comments here, but I’m surprised at Mike Petrilli’s simplistic argument that “bad ideas flow from academia into our K-12 system … (… moral relativism, the decline of the core curriulum, dubious pedagogical approaches)” and that “one of public education’s […]
$100 million… how will it be used?
Looking at today’s New York Times story on AT&T Aspire, the $100 million effort to reduce dropping out. In reality, $100 million is a visible splash and not chump change, but it’s a small amount compared to all the money spent on high schools every year. That effort to get a visible splash to serve […]
Open-source textbooks
This morning, Inside Higher Ed has a good article on faculty who write open-source texts. In the end, it’ll be faculty decisions that determine whether this is a viable alternative to expensive texts.
In memoriam
It’s been one year after the shootings at Virginia Tech. No great thoughts here, just thoughts.
The difference between being wrong and being fired
Aaron Barlow has it on the nose when he discusses Academic Freedom and Yoo. Fundamentally, once UC Berkeley’s law school hired John Yoo as a tenured faculty member, it owed him due process in any disciplinary proceeding, both substantive and procedural due process. The fact that his actions as a government lawyer are obnoxious and […]