Silence on AT&T Aspire an “Ed in ’08” parallel?
Is it my imagination, or has there been a deafening silence in both news outlets and the blogosphere after the AT&T Foundation’s announcement Wednesday of a $100 Million Dropout Prevention Program? I wrote about the initiative Thursday, but given the lead-in publicity (the America’s Promise report with Ed Week about low graduation rates?), I expected […]
Sketching a course 5
Framing questions as stuff, habits, and experienceProbably the most powerful intellectual experience I had as an undergraduate… or rather the most powerful explicit design of a course I took in my major (history) … was a course on late medieval/early modern Europe taught by Susan Stuard. She structured the entire course around a single question: […]