Oh good grief (the personal version)
Stay up late listening to the seventh game of the ALCS. Go to sleep, but not for long enough. Wake up. Shower. Dress. Drive son to school. Arrive on campus. Turn on computer. Realize you left your reading glasses at home. Drive home. Talk with spouse for a few minutes. Drive to campus. Realize you […]
The buttons we bear… or the crosses, or other things
In the last week I’ve been criticized by both Stanley Fish and Andy Rotherham, so I must be doing something halfway interesting. As Leo Casey notes, the legal problem in banning any and all campaign buttons from the classroom is the question of other forms of passive advertisement of individual commitments. How can one construe […]
Oh, good grief!
Apart from a few blog entries, I’ve been staying out of the fray on Ayers. I didn’t sign the online petition because at the time it went up, it didn’t appear as if Ayers’ academic freedom was being directly threatened. In this regard, I agree with Erin O’Connor, that public criticism is not the same […]
How you finish
Congratulations to danah boyd, who passed her dissertation defense and will shortly join the one percent of the American population with a doctorate. For those of you who are still working on it, I hope you also have an advisor who will “protect [you] as long as [you vow] to kick ass and take names.” […]
Magister economicus?
A few months ago, I became a ringer in an August 19 Ed Week chat with David Figlio and Jennifer Jennings. I’ve known economist David Figlio for about a decade, I’ve respected his work on Florida and accountability, and I’ve wanted to see how he’d respond to an argument from the young-Turk subfield of behavioral […]