Collegial support with a touch of greed
This morning is the last half-day of the History of Education Society meeting in St. Petersburg. Several times this weekend, I found myself encouraging friends and colleagues to finish book manuscripts. I want more reading, even if I don’t currently have time to do it! I just wish it hadn’t required quite so much paperwork […]
Not at the top of the agenda
Last week, I was puzzled when Inside Higher Ed‘s Scott Jaschik e-mailed me to ask whom I’d suggest for the next Secretary of Education. I perfectly understand the journalist’s desire to have material ready to roll with predictable events (in this case, something for election day, but also the prepackaged pieces rolling out today and […]
Being an historian is a dirty job, but someone’s got to do it
I voted by absentee this year, so I was able to canvass for a little this afternoon before turning into Chauffeur Dad. I’m waiting at a large warehouse-turned-kid-exercise-palace, with a gymnastics place on one side and my son’s taekwondo place on the other. I was sitting on the floor when I heard a fellow parent, […]
In lieu of a serious post
I am certain that regardless of concerns about the electoral process, we will have a president tomorrow night at midnight. His name… George W. Bush. Oh, you were asking about the next president. Likely to be Barack Obama. Despite various bits of speculation around an Obama cabinet, the key immediate personnel will be the transition […]
You know you’re punchy when….
By Sherman Dorn on November 10, 2008
… a correspondent guesses that no real news on Obama and education will occur soon “outside of a secretary announcement,” and your first thought is, “Inside a cabinet secretary, it is dark and hard to read.” Apologies to Samuel Clemens, of course. Or maybe no apologies necessary. And now, to finish some teaching stuff.
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