No rest for the wearying
This morning was definitely the time to get work done early: meeting on the Lakeland campus at noon (an hour’s drive from the Tampa campus), followed by two parental chauffeuring duties this afternoon. So after dropping the son off at school early this morning, I drove out to Lakeland and have spent three hours working, […]
Time warp
I slept in until 5:50 am and I decided to drive my son in to school before showering. I spent some time on e-mail this morning (which is in its own time warp after our tech problems at my college in the last week), and am listening to the webcast of the Florida Board of […]
President Bush nominates non-researcher buddy of Jeb to second term on the National Board of Education Sciences
I didn’t catch this until the daily Fritzwire, but last week’s nomination of four members to the National Board of Education Sciences included a second term for Phil Handy, former head of the Florida Board of Education, a businessman, and someone who never impressed me when he was the Board of Ed chair here. My […]
Value-added, with botulism
Before Kevin Carey proclaims that value-added [method] comes of age, he might want to read the real true facts behind the New York City teacher value-added project, wherein we learn that the city’s great statistical experts thought three children were enough of a sample on which to base a teacher evaluation, or maybe the ethical […]
Working in the kitchen
I’m glad I decided to edit an upcoming EPAA article this morning, since my college’s e-mail is on the blink again. Ouch. Our poor tech services director, on the job only a few weeks, and she and her staff have had to cope with a major systems collapse over more than a week. So instead […]