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 […]
Summer colds
Sign of a head cold: when you get about 20% of what you expected done in the morning. So I took the afternoon off and for the first time in more than a year, took sick leave. That’s rare for faculty, since we have flexible schedules. But I figured that if I was going to […]