What can you do in 20 minutes? and don’t forget Weighted Student Funding
In lieu of actual content, a brief note: I have about 20 minutes left before I have to run out the door again. Last Thursday, I had 6 meetings. Friday had a morning meeting, a mid-morning meeting, a 75-minute drive to another meeting, and the reverse 75-minute drive to yet another meeting. Yesterday had three […]
Propagation of the rock-star professor myth
A few weeks ago, I worried about how the distribution of lectures on iTunes was promoting the idea of higher education as lecture. Along comes Academic Earth, which is collecting what appears to be the most charismatic of the iTunes professors. On the one hand, there are some wonderful lecturers, this is a great advertisement […]
Stimulating thoughts
Now that the stimulus package has passed, a few thoughts: The speed of the conference-committee work was breathtaking. Years from now, apart from what happens with the economy and the rest of his presidency, political historians will remember the fact that President Obama achieved an unprecedented legislative victory less than 25 days after becoming president. […]
Express gratitude when the roller coaster turns you upside down
Someone I respect has been pushing me and some other friends to think about what’s going right in the world (and our lives), instead of focusing on the aggravations, of which there are too many. So in the spirit of exercising gratitude instead of exorcising aggravations… My family is wonderful and is worth every second […]
Cutting reading coaches
Yesterday morning’s Lakeland Ledger story on the cutting of reading coaches has a good (if brief) discussion of the issues. While the current economic catastrophe is much worse than any other recession since WW2, this dynamic is a result of the way that schools respond to reform pressures by adding pieces to the school: you […]