Slurs against the apparently evil Linda Darling-Hammond and what TFA is really good for
I was struck by the following vivid language used today by the usually calm Kevin Carey: Of course, no TFA article would be complete without the requisite disparaging quote from Stanford professor and Obama advisor Linda Darling-Hammond, who has elevated TFA haterism into something of a fine art over the years. That’s pretty extreme, so […]
One additional bit of news
The letter from my university’s president with the following snippet showed up in my department mailbox sometime in the last few days, but I’m counting it with yesterday’s birthday stuff: I now have to cross out a few hundred copies of “Associate” on the remaining stash of my USF business cards. (If someone decides to […]
Mental drops in a scattered morning
Some odd thoughts this morning as I catch up on a bunch of things (but probably not enough): The key difference between great colloquial writing and great formal writing is how efficient the formal writing is. There are some vocabulary differences (colloquial writing uses slang, while formal writing generally avoids it), but too many undergraduate […]
My (undelivered) (okay, unwritten) graduation speech
Twenty-five years ago today (it’s still on the 25th anniversary in California, though it is past midnight in Florida), I graduated from Corona del Mar High School, in Orange County, California. I wasn’t at my high school graduation, because I was at the national speech tournament that year, I think in Salt Lake City. (My […]
Florida’s draft social studies standards
Florida Department of Education staff have kindly sent me a text version of the draft social studies standards for Florida (XLS), which I have reworked into an Excel spreadsheet with two versions, one sorted by discipline and standard and another sorted by grade level. (Note: to do the sorting, I had to create standard codes. […]