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 […]