Jim Anderson retrospective, part 2
A few days ago I described the 20th-anniversary Jim Anderson retrospective at AERA. Now it’s my turn to address some of the topics raised in that session, in a personal historiography, or my reading of The Education of Blacks in the South, originally published in 1988. For me, the thesis of the book was not […]
An NEA member at the head of AFT?
In all the discussion about Randi Weingarten’s imminent rise to the AFT presidency is one small detail that hasn’t yet been discussed: UFT’s state affiliate NYSUT is now merged and affiliated with both NEA and AFT. Which makes Weingarten an NEA member. I have no clue whether Weingarten is a delegate to the NEA convention […]
Gradu[r]ated
So U.S. Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings Announces Department Will Move to a Uniform Graduation Rate, Require Disaggregation of Data (the true title of the press release today announcing imminent-but-not-published draft regs defining a graduation rate and only a few words away from the type of book title that would cure almost any insomnia). And […]
Jim Anderson retrospective, part 1
Last Tuesday in New York, a roundtable panel presented a 20-year retrospective on Jim Anderson’s The Education of Blacks in the South, 1865-1935, chaired by Joy Williamson (U. Washington). In this entry, I’ll summarize some of the perspectives of the panelists. In the next entry (tomorrow, I hope), I’ll present my personal engagement with the […]
Speedy animation
By Sherman Dorn on April 3, 2008
Done in about two minutes of downtime with K-sketch: Yes, I’ll keep my day job.
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