“Cut the c***, governor, and tell us what you’ll support”
I’m reading between the lines on this report of a Florida legislative committee hearing from yesterday, but I think the reported interaction between (majority) committee members and the governor’s representative is an indication that my guess a few days ago was correct: Florida’s state senate leaders are almost to the point of saying out loud […]
Sherman Dorn is called a dirty name: behaviorist
Not really, but in this week’s Education Sector forum on technology and assessment, Scott Marion of the National Center for the Improvement in Educational Assessment comes close. In reading Bill Tucker’s report on the subject, I had previously been concerned that it was too close to boosterism for bells-and-whistles approaches, broad claims that we can […]
Higher-ed policy conundrum: I’m a cheap date, but my brother isn’t
Yesterday’s hearing on federal science funding highlights one of the dilemmas of increased funding: how do you do it in a way that is sustainable and does not lead universities to invest in a research infrastructure built on untenable assumptions (i.e., building lab space that will be empty when funding falls and hiring postdocs who […]
Raising a stink
My home office stinks right now. It’s a temporary “new plastic object” stink from the large inflatable ball I’m sitting on in an effort to strengthen my back muscles and keep me from being completely sedentary while typing. My on-campus office stank this morning. The electricity went out in the building sometime over the weekend, […]
Take a breath (if you don’t have asthma) and go on
I don’t have asthma, but as my head cold morphs into the ordinary misery of seasonal allergies, I realize it’s a darned nuisance not to be able to breathe comfortably. With luck I’ll shortly be back to normal (or at least for what passes as normal for me), and in times like these, it pays […]