NCLB music
Bill Wraga, at work a mild-mannered U. of Georgia faculty member, has recently uploaded the latest NCLB/ed reform song I’ve come across. Some others: The Department of Education’s NCLB song (NY Times article with partial lyrics; anyone know of a location for the full lyrics or an mp3?) Tom Paxton, Not on the Test No […]
Gesundheit!
So the National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges (NASULGC) is changing its name to the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities (APLU). No wonder the group’s “leaders want the new name to be read as a series of letters”: if you pronounce the acronym, it sounds like Apple U. or that the speaker […]
Collegial support with a touch of greed
This morning is the last half-day of the History of Education Society meeting in St. Petersburg. Several times this weekend, I found myself encouraging friends and colleagues to finish book manuscripts. I want more reading, even if I don’t currently have time to do it! I just wish it hadn’t required quite so much paperwork […]
Not at the top of the agenda
Last week, I was puzzled when Inside Higher Ed‘s Scott Jaschik e-mailed me to ask whom I’d suggest for the next Secretary of Education. I perfectly understand the journalist’s desire to have material ready to roll with predictable events (in this case, something for election day, but also the prepackaged pieces rolling out today and […]
You know you’re punchy when….
By Sherman Dorn on November 10, 2008
… a correspondent guesses that no real news on Obama and education will occur soon “outside of a secretary announcement,” and your first thought is, “Inside a cabinet secretary, it is dark and hard to read.” Apologies to Samuel Clemens, of course. Or maybe no apologies necessary. And now, to finish some teaching stuff.
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