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 […]
No excuses
I’m exhausted after a week of only eight meetings, but more than half were important meetings. I wish I had pithy thoughts, but I think the last pithy thought I had was on Tuesday, when I drafted a bunch of items for the union e-mail newsletter. Adieu, cruel week. No, it wasn’t cruel: just there […]
Wake up and go to sleep with AERA
This says nothing about my personal life but instead about my often-fragmented day: I started work early this morning at the auto dealer’s working on a paper I’m co-presenting at AERA with Stephen Provasnik, and I’m closing out my local coffeehouse by… working on the paper. I only wish I could have spent hours and […]