Sara Goldrick-Rab keeps things in perspective
So what do you do when your new career as an assistant professor lands you on the front page of the New York Times as an icon of the “moderating” professoriate? If you’re Sara Goldrick-Rab, you laugh a bit about the article’s oversimplification and then enjoy the attention. And hope for a bit of time […]
Hair-ripping time in standards review
It’s a legal holiday, so no paid work is on the agenda. On the other hand, I feel that it’s my duty as someone trained in history to review the draft social studies standards for Florida, so this falls under citizenship, not work. I’m looking at the third-grade benchmarks in world history, and this appears […]
Minor thoughts on teaching
Minor peeves (and solutions): utilize (solution: use) impact used as a transitive verb (solutions: influence, shape, affect, etc.) in order to (solution: to) When authors, to follow their own train of thought, including every tangent they traveled, such as when I tried Walgreens a few days ago when I couldn’t find what I wanted at […]
Ambitions derailed…
It’s about 6:30 p.m. on July 3. I think I’m over the cold, but I’m still snowed under, right before a holiday weekend. Tomorrow is for citizenship, but I think I’ll have to dig myself out from under the backlog over the weekend. As a result, blogging is likely to be either light over the […]
Goodbye, Edison Schools
A few days ago, I was invited to a phone conference with Edison Schools, the former Chris Whittle/Benno Schmidt operation that would be an “educational management organization” and operate hundreds of schools by the end of this decade. A few years ago, the state of Florida’s pension fund bought a stake in a private-equity firm […]