When the news hole shrinks, any mention is a blessing… well, sort of
Adam Emerson used to be the Tampa Tribune‘s higher-ed reporter. As the Tribune’s owner Media General has been laying off reporters and editors left and right over the past year, assignments have shifted, and Emerson now has the K-12 education beat. So when he called me up with the news, it was also to ask […]
Hire a discount windbag
Reading one student paper a few minutes ago reminded me that a number of school districts hire consultants for fairly high prices. Some of them are worth every cent because they perform services that are rarely required but essential. Some of them are highly overpaid. And some of them cost even more in opportunity cost […]
Brief notes on a college visit
My daughter and I took advantage of Veterans Day this year to make another college-visit trip, to a different region of the country from February’s trip, this time to two Colleges of Potential Choice. I was wrong last time when I said I kept having facultyish thoughts in February as well as parent thoughts. I […]
NCLB music
Bill Wraga, at work a mild-mannered U. of Georgia faculty member, has recently uploaded the latest NCLB/ed reform song I’ve come across. Some others: The Department of Education’s NCLB song (NY Times article with partial lyrics; anyone know of a location for the full lyrics or an mp3?) Tom Paxton, Not on the Test No […]
Gesundheit!
So the National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges (NASULGC) is changing its name to the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities (APLU). No wonder the group’s “leaders want the new name to be read as a series of letters”: if you pronounce the acronym, it sounds like Apple U. or that the speaker […]