Brain… dripping… out… editor’s… ears…
I’ve done about all I can on editing today. I still have e-mails from last week I need to respond to, reviewers to nag, disposition e-mails to write, … but I’ve been in my office for over 8 hours, mostly alone, and if you are waiting for me to send you something, please understand that […]
No golf for faculty, either
Last month, Dean Dad wrote an entry discussing the generational culture differences among higher-ed administrators. There’s an important point here that’s hidden in the piece, something about work habits as well as culture and leisure change by generation. Anyone who goes into grad school expecting a leisurely life of the mind should know that Margaret […]
One more brief item on health care and education
I need to return to editing an accepted manuscript for publication, but just one more brief entry on Peter Orszag and health care economics. I haven’t yet commented on Corey Bower’s blog entries earlier this spring on one way of seeing flat spending on education (per-pupil spending as % of GDP) and the degree to […]
Health care and education
On May 19th, Congressional Budget Office Director Peter Orszag was on the Diane Rehm show. Several times that hour, Orszag talked about health care costs, and I had a few thoughts while listening: This guy is smart. I don’t know if my oldest brother agrees with him about health care policy, but there’s a frood […]
Possible boondoggle in broadband build-out?
By Sherman Dorn on June 1, 2008
There’s something possibly important but important to check in the Educause podcast of a May 8 speech by John Windhausen, who runs the Telepoly website. To put his argument briefly, he is convinced that the U.S. will run out of broadband capacity, and he argues for a “national broadband policy” to expand the broadband infrastructure, […]
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