What to do with scoundrels
Since Mike Petrilli’s May 12 blog post, arguing that AERA should not allow Bill Ayers to sit on its executive committee, there has been a host of responses, criticisms of Petrilli from Eduwonkette and Marc Dean Millot, and then rebuttals by Petrilli, Diane Ravitch, and Jeff Kuhner. And don’t forget the last Gadfly podcast, when […]
On not beating around the bush in the classroom
Is there anyone else who winced at the following sentences from the Atlantic Professor X column, In the Basement of the Ivory Tower? A few weeks into the semester, the students must start actually writing papers, and I must start grading them…. I knew that Ms. L.’s paper would fail. I knew it that first […]
U.S. News story on graduation statistics
Almost 45 years, U.S. News first published a piece about dropping out, a short blurb titled “The Facts about School ‘Dropouts’” in its August 26, 1963 issue (p. 11): A high-school education is becoming more important. Each year, it becomes harder for a young person without a high-school diploma to get a job. And unemployment […]
Political science/political philosophy and education policy
I was going to spend some time last night connecting my weekend entry on hubris to the debate over whether a preponderance-of-evidence standard is right for policy, when I discovered that the macrotheoretical gap had already been filled by Leo Casey’s point about seeing like a state, not like an educator. I’m expecting two quick-tongued […]
Small irritations when reading blogs
By Sherman Dorn on May 19, 2008
Not aimed at any specific blog, and if you think this is about you, you’re probably wrong, but if the following discourages you from any of these practices, … If you invite comments, why are you asking people to register using a system that doesn’t work? “This” is obscure text for a link, makes it […]
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