Families and schools (Father’s Day edition)
I’m recovering from the ritual that millions of parents have been through before me: taking a teenager out for the lane-changing experiment. My daughter earned her Florida learner’s permit 9 days ago, started driving classes at a local high school last week, and has been driving short jaunts with her mother or me every day […]
I was manifest(o)ly wrong
Several days ago, I echoed Steve Diamond‘s argument that the dueling manifestoes this week are related to “the battle for the soul of Barack Obama.” Larry Mishel took me to task in comments, and I will now publicly apologize, since David Brooks has now made the same point Diamond and I did. In his Manichean […]
Shared responsibilities for children I
I had intended to blog about the responsibilities of schools for a few weeks, since Harry Brighouse responded last month to April’s Richard Rothstein-Rick Hess(-and-others) debate and Matthew Yglesias responded a week later to Ezra Klein’s comments on education and the economy. I’ve been swamped by other things and am writing this first entry (of […]
The politics of education platforms
Steve Diamond is right: the public pronouncements of sweeping education approaches are all about a “battle for the soul of Barack Obama on education policy.” That is true whether you’re talking about the Bolder Approach announcement Monday, a Klein-Sharpton alliance that will be announced today, or what have you. (Ed in ’08 counts, though it […]
The costs of layoffs
It looks like faculty at USF are “getting off” lightly in terms of layoffs by almost any measure. I have some questions remaining about the choices available to my institution, but the position of faculty here is better than USF staff and better than those who work in other sectors hit hard by the recession. […]