Whitmire and Rotherham fall prey to faux-trend fallacy
If I were a union activist without an historical perspective, I’d say ouch with Richard Whitmire and Andy Rotherham’s WSJ opinion piece proclaiming a trend in news reporting on education and teachers unions. Or, to put it another way, there’s an op-ed in Rupert Murdoch’s new plaything proclaiming that a dying industry is giving birth […]
The Child has arrived!
This week I received my contributor’s copy of The Child: An Encyclopedic Companion. I have a single entry (on dropouts), and it’s clear there’s lots of good stuff in it on a range of topics, including a substantial section with historical and social-science perspectives on families. I think the cost is about on par for […]
Looking forward to reading midterms
A few minutes ago, I finished preparing the midterm for my undergraduate history of education class, and I am looking forward to reading student responses. For this semester, I decided to write a midterm that was entirely focused on historical documents in the form of primary-source identification items. The task for each item requires that […]
St. Louis University
I am certainly not the first one to point this out, but St. Louis University has shot itself in the foot by apparently attempting to cancel a David Horowitz speech. Its only (non-saving) grace is that it explicitly has a “we get to decide if your desired speaker says what we want” policy. Too bad […]
Students can study more than one subject at a time
The future of our nation and world depend on our citizens’ understanding of both how they interact with each other and how they interact with the natural world [emphasis added].–FSU physicist Paul Cottle, responding to a critic who thinks we should be more worried about civics knowledge As an historian, I agree with Cottle. I […]