NCLB and where we sit
In my undergraduate social foundations class, I spend some time explaining the politics of accountability. For the last few years, a critical mass of students (either a majority or a vocal minority) have consistently opposed accountability, taking on the mantle of professionalism, and it’s my job to rattle their cages and make them see things […]
Wrong incentive structure for community colleges/technical training
George R. Boggs and Marlene B. Seltzer describe Washington State’s incentive structure designed to encourage community colleges to push completion: Washington’s community and technical colleges will receive extra money for students who earn their first 15 and first 30 college credits, earn their first 5 credits of college-level math, pass a pre-college writing or math […]
The Latin Declension Song
You always knew you wanted a Latin I song (hat tip).
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 […]