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 […]