Fordham v. Fordham
Congrats to Fordham for writing more entries in the first day of its new blog Flypaper than I’ve written in about 7 years… On the other hand, it looks like the blog that the Fordham Fellows started last year has been taken over by others, especially when an entry is named Argan Oil, a Nutritional […]
Funding in higher ed
Kevin Carey’s column on unequal funding of higher education makes the obvious but important point that states’ public higher education systems are often skewed in favor of spending more in institutions with better-prepared students. Carey uses per-student (FTE) instructional expenses calculated using the Governmental Accounting Standards Board numbers (i.e., numbers that institutions reported using GASB […]
Legislative rolling and the New York budget language on tenure
One more thought on the New York state budget’s language placing a moratorium on using test scores to deny teachers tenure: I’m wondering how much of the ire directed at the legislature and the calumny aimed at NYSUT (the state teachers union affiliate) is about the process of how this happened—i.e., without the “right” people […]
Sketching a course 3
Habits etc. Reading at multiple levels: for information, for a story, for perspective Evaluation at multiple levels: consistency/logic, newness, accuracy, relevance of questions Writing through multiple drafts Revision with an audience in mind Experiences Reading for wonder Writing as joyful Writing as intense Writing to sort through ideas and then present them
Organizational psychosis?
Yesterday’s New York Times article on ‘credit recovery’ puts the Bloomberg-Klein years in New York in perspective, as one Manhattan principal explains: I think that credit recovery and the related topic independent study is in lots of ways the dirty little secret of high schools. There’s very little oversight and there are very few standards. […]