When your definition of rigor depends on the market
The news in this morning’s Washington Post that the College Board is cutting several AP programs should make educators think at least a second time before tying their curriculum to an outside entity’s financial fortunes. While it is non-profit, the College Board made decisions to cut French and Latin literature, Italian, and one of the […]
A dozen questions for an official graduation rate
When the OMB clears the draft regs on counting dropouts, we can expect another wave of stories on graduation rates and what they all mean. Sharp reporters and other observers will ask the following questions of the draft regs: Does the definition of graduation include or exclude non-standard completion categories such as GEDs and “certificates […]
Is Bush the worst?
I agree with K.C. Johnson: James Buchanan was a worse president than George W. Bush. I don’t agree with him on why historians are inclined to judge Bush worse than anyone else, but it is a bit disappointing to see a clear majority picking Bush. I mean, there are so many bad presidents from whom […]
Jim Anderson retrospective, part 2
A few days ago I described the 20th-anniversary Jim Anderson retrospective at AERA. Now it’s my turn to address some of the topics raised in that session, in a personal historiography, or my reading of The Education of Blacks in the South, originally published in 1988. For me, the thesis of the book was not […]
Speedy animation
By Sherman Dorn on April 3, 2008
Done in about two minutes of downtime with K-sketch: Yes, I’ll keep my day job.
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