Is the St. Pete Times covering the Pinellas Education Foundation’s white paper appropriately?
On Saturday, the St. Petersburg Times printed an article discussing a proposed site-based management system in Pinellas County (home to St. Petersburg) floated by the Pinellas Education Foundation. As is appropriate, the article disclosed the role of two key Times executives on the foundation’s board and advisory council. But the non-bylined article only discussed a […]
History games
While my fall teaching schedule may change, I am currently slated to teach the undergraduate history of ed course I last taught in spring 2007. That semester’s class worked well enough, but I want to raise the level of engagement with key issues, and I’ve been thinking about constructing games around key tasks in a […]
Graduations as cultural artifacts
Jan Hoffman has an interesting piece in today’s New York Times on eighth-grade graduations. This is in response to Barack Obama’s Father’s Day speech, when he mentioned and criticized the opulence of middle-school graduations. I spoke with Hoffman in the middle of the week as she was scrambling to put together material for the story, […]
Fears of Gloucester
Not the one in King Lear, but the one in Massachusetts. The story circulating about the high number of teen pregnancies this year is not new: the Boston Globe reported on it June 6. What is new is Time magazine’s claim on Wednesday that the pregnancies are the result of a pact among several of […]
The missing points on the Milton Friedman Institute
Maybe there’s something wrong with me, but I think the collective faculty letter criticizing the creation of the University of Chicago’s Milton Friedman Institute is both correct and beside the point. The faculty point out that the investment of $200 million in this new entity will privilege a certain view of markets associated with Friedman, […]