Remedial math in community colleges
The anonymous community-college Dean Dad wrote this morning about remedial math classes in community colleges, and I’ll use this as an excuse opportunity to bring together several thoughts I’ve spread around in different places or have not articulated: Remedial education in community colleges should be the logical place where we try Carol Twigg’s approach to […]
More notes on college visits
I’m continuing my series of notes on college visits (the last one was from the fall). Thanks to frequent-flyer mileage, my daughter’s spring break, and a few other things, we’re spending almost an entire week in a part of the country where my daughter has never visited. I’ve been in one metro area before, but […]
When historians comment on draft regulations…
Kelly Woestman, H-Net‘s current president, just wrote a wonderful comment on NARA’s proposal to reorganize the management of (and possibly centralize) presidential libraries.
Mediocre education reporting #357
Sam Dillon’s story this morning on the evident pending Giant Teacher Shortage IV: Postapocalyptic Horror… uh, pending retirement of many teachers struck me as extraordinarily poor reporting on a National Commission on Teaching and America’s Future report because Dillon wrote his lede from the first two pages of the report. Here’s what the report says, […]
One teacher’s response to Ron Matus’s article
There’s been lots of coverage of the Ron Matus story March 29 on firing teachers in Florida, but there’s been no follow-up online about the letters to the editor that were printed April 4 (last Saturday), and at this point, I can’t even find the letters on the Times website. But I think one needs […]