Florida ed policy and politics
The legislative session is in full swing (or a more colorful noun), and a bunch of things are in the air either in Tallahassee or elsewhere: 1. Both houses of the state legislature are considering bills to change the role of state testing (FCAT), either by adding other information to the labeling of high schools […]
When you make speeches the issue…
I don't generally talk about electoral politics in this blog, but yesterday's speech by Barack Obama strikes me as historic, whether or not Obama wins the Democratic party's nomination or the general election. Historians are often wrong in their predictions (we earn a rear-view mirror with that degree, not a crystal ball), but this is […]
Complex object creation tools: review needed
With the recent release of new versions for both Omeka and Sophie, I’d love to see some comparative review from both institutional users (e.g., the perspective of someone in charge of a project team) and also individual users (e.g., teachers trying to create content for specific courses or modules). I’m not saying I’m going to […]
Grad rates of the fanciful and research kind
While Erin Dillon and Inside Higher Ed are creating mash-ups of the NCAA hoops brackets and college graduation rates, I’m working on reframing the CPI when I can’t handle fighting fires any more, except this evening I’m working with the 2900 counties in the U.S. with upper-grades enrollments reported for 2001-02 through 2005-06 and regular […]
I did not sign up to be a firefighter
… so why do I feel like I’ve spent the last 5 hours playing the role? Oh, yeah: my university is back from spring break; the first department peer review committee meeting (annual evaluations) is tomorrow morning; I’m out of town most of next week. I want a week to work all by myself, and […]