Alterknit educashun polticks
In the alternate reality where pundits and talk-show hosts live, Barack Obama is not going to say Tuesday that students have a personal responsibility to work hard in school. Somehow this is indoctrination, or maybe unseemly politicking for all the 7-year-olds who will be voting in 2012. Though Richard Whitmire and many others are scratching […]
Rising health-care costs are all my fault
It’s true. See what this “friend” wrote me some weeks ago: Oh, so you’re the guy who’s driving up everyone’s premiums with your insatiable demands for weekly colonoscopies. Don’t worry: the TMI in the full entry is about insurance companies, not what the doctors found.
“Lake Wobegon” Klein
From pp. 68-69 of Accountability Frankenstein: The complexity of an accountability system can also help muffle opposition to accountability if it gives a reasonable chance for students or schools to be successful in the system’s labeling… the political potential to muffle opposition within a system may be more important than the technical qualities of a […]
EPAA acceptance rate, 2007 and 2008 (English language articles): 12-13%
I have been doing some tidying up with EPAA, and looked at the stats for 2008. I don’t check the statistics often (and especially not early in a calendar year when manuscripts from the prior year may well be still pending), but authors occasionally need the information for tenure and promotion purposes. While there are […]
Bad social criticism ‘r’ us
By Sherman Dorn on August 31, 2009
Kay Hymowitz’s piece on dating in the City Journal reminds me in one way of a horrible newsmagazine story in the late 1980s or early 1990s, one that proclaimed certainty that women who were single in their early 30s were doomed never to marry. In another way, it reminds me of Sex and the City: […]
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