Nailing down accreditation
Kevin Carey has an interesting short essay this weekend on college accreditation, essentially arguing that the federal government should use its regulatory authority over regional accreditation agencies to exert indirect pressures on colleges. There’s a thumbnail history of government support of higher ed in the postwar era* and an argument that it was kosher for […]
When to stop working for the day…
I’ve been in my office for most of the past 6 hours, engaged in various editorial tasks. Most of the time, I have been writing disposition e-mails, generally rejections and requests for revisions. I know it’s time to head home when I cannot write another rejection note. I’ll just have to carve out time later […]
Feeling lazy at 9:30 am
I must be too-well socialized: I’m reading my daughter’s book manuscript this morning, but I’ll probably leave the house shortly to get some work done on Education Policy Analysis Archives and then reading and grading papers. Yesterday’s class documented two things for me: I had planned enough for an entire day of teaching, and it’s […]