Jim Anderson retrospective, part 1
Last Tuesday in New York, a roundtable panel presented a 20-year retrospective on Jim Anderson’s The Education of Blacks in the South, 1865-1935, chaired by Joy Williamson (U. Washington). In this entry, I’ll summarize some of the perspectives of the panelists. In the next entry (tomorrow, I hope), I’ll present my personal engagement with the […]
Tacit knowledge and the AERA program hustle
Eduwonkette has commented on the heterogeneous quality of sessions at the American Educational Research Association annual meeting, quoted someone saying it was a tenure hustle, and suggested that the IES-funded Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness is a rival to AERA. (Oh, yes, and her friend skoolboy is right in recommending Topaz Thai.) I’ve commented […]
Biology is constructed, but there’s only one version of history
Today the Florida Senate PreK-12 committee approved Ronda Storms’s bill (SB 2692) that would undercut the new state science standards that include evolution as the basic model of biology. It’s called the “Academic Freedom Act,” but it only applies to biology teachers who want to teach Intelligent Design (or the Flying Spaghetti Monster theory of […]
Turnitin.com, students’ intellectual property, and fair use
Eric Goldman has the latest news and commentary on the high school students’ lawsuit (and the suit’s dismissal) against having to submit papers to Turnitin.com (hat tip). It’s a fascinating and complicated issue, and Goldman’s discussion explains at least some of the tangles involved (though I wouldn’t be surprised if there were more).
AERA brief note
I’m in the Delta terminal of JFK, waiting to go home to Tampa. Presented. Listened. Laughed. Bought things in both the AERA exhibit hall and also the Juliiard School bookstore (which was having a 30%-off sale on a bunch of CDs). I will be blogging later this week on a NYC nutty policy and on […]