Did Stanley Fish really have to bring the truth into it?
Ouch: The truth is that there are no perfectly straightforward senior administrative searches. They are all a bit cooked, and often they serve more as window dressing than as genuinely deliberative processes. The larger point he made in the column makes sense: institutional leaders are as important for reaching out as for directing what happens […]
Teacher performance-pay distributions in Tampa
Yesterday and today, the St Petersburg Times has been covering the distribution of performance pay among different schools in Hillsborough County (one of the few in Florida where the union and school board agreed to the state’s merit-pay provisions). See the main story from yesterday and also a tale of two teachers, a basic Q&A […]
Students Blog
Here is why I’m delighted to have the NYC Students Blog on my list of must-reads: when Bronx Science Students Walk Out, you’ll get a student perspective responding to the NY Sun article.
Stocks for the plagiarist?
Margaret Soltan argues for public punishment of plagiarists, most recently in the case of Madonna Constantine of Teachers College (Columbia University): UD sees no reason to keep the nature of the sanction private, and many good reasons to make sanctions public. These people should serve as examples to other professors tempted to plagiarize. I’m not […]
Bright Futures: an out-of-control entitlement program that conservative Republicans created
For probably the first time in my life, I had perfect timing: My column on Florida’s lottery-funded scholarship program (Bright Futures) appeared in the Jacksonville Times-Union newspaper today, the same day the St. Petersburg Times reported on a poll about university tuition, a day after the Tampa Tribune reported on problems with the Bright Futures […]