I’m feeling better… I think I’m going to go for a walk
I know it’s been a super-busy week, but I was taken aback when one of the searches leading people to this website turned out to be “Dorn of the Dead.” Lal Bihari and the Association of Dead People aside (they do great work and won the 2003 Ig Nobel prize for peace), I’m still here, […]
Who ever expected Florida legislators to be enmeshed in …
Following a few weeks after revelations that a small university up the road from me hired a state legislator as a lecturer for close to six figures, there’s a story in IHE with the title A State Senator’s Sweet Deal, about one of the universities in our state capitol. This type of news item appears […]
Life The tenure process can work out
She may have been doubting it at various points, but many of who have read her blog over the past few years never did: Profgrrrrl got tenure.
"Differentiated accountability"
Alexander Russo links to news coverage of the Margaret Spellings announcement yesterday that maybe not all AYP failures are the same. Here’s some blog coverage: Ed Week reporter David Hoff notes the irony that Spellings made the announcement in a state that was ineligible for the pilot. St Pete Times reporter Ron Matus anticipates that […]
Florida ed policy and politics
The legislative session is in full swing (or a more colorful noun), and a bunch of things are in the air either in Tallahassee or elsewhere: 1. Both houses of the state legislature are considering bills to change the role of state testing (FCAT), either by adding other information to the labeling of high schools […]