Summertime freedom … sort of, and not quite yet
I’ve spent much of the last week tying up odds and ends, from my part in our department’s annual reviews to finalizing a syllabus and looking at some data. Now it’s into the summer… sort of. I am relieved that my class this summer is an all-day Saturday affair in June and July, not because […]
Summer syllabus finalized
In between bits and pieces of other things, I’ve finalized the syllabus for the class I start teaching in June. This is a topics course on education reform (history and social-science perspectives on), and I probably didn’t take many risks in setting up the summer course. We’ll just see how it goes. Four books in […]
Reading First analysis, the Boring Version
I’ve got to stop being even slightly witty, or I’ll continue to be quoted slightly out of context, but in this case, it’s entirely my fault for being all “meta” on Mike Petrilli’s defense of the Fordham Foundation’s defense of Reading First. So let me try to address the substantive policy issues. No Child Left […]
Agreements with Fordham
Lest readers assume I disagree with Mike Petrilli and Fordham colleagues on everything, let me give them full credit for standing on the right side of science education in Florida, where they were ahead of the curve several years ago in criticizing the state Department of Education’s cowardice on science standards, supported the new standards, […]
Extra credit assignment for grad students
2 extra points, a gold star, and a free hall pass to beginning scholars who can spot the flaws in Mike Petrilli’s defense of Reading First. It’s clear that the Reading First program administration was corrupted, and reading Petrilli’s blog entry looks like it’s really a knee-jerk defense of Fordham’s previous defense of Reading First […]