Slowing down the calving of icebergs
One AP news story on the front of the St. Pete Times today is the calving of a new giant iceberg off a Greeland glacier. In many ways, the consequences of the recession for public services is like the calving of giant icebergs, a separation of public agencies, counties, and states into chunks that will […]
Barton and Coley ignore their own data
Yesterday, John Thompson wrote about Barton and Coley report from ETS on long-term trends in the Black-White achievement gap. Like Barton and Coley, Thompson thinks Daniel Patrick Moynihan was correct about family structure and life chances. I’m sighing this morning, because Barton and Coley’s data undermine their argument, and I’m puzzled at how they could […]
Horowitz is becoming a little more clever
Cue voice of Don LaFontaine: He’s back, he’s got a bionic brain, and he’s coming after the Victorian specialist in your department. As Inside Higher Ed reported this morning, David Horowitz has a new schtick. You may remember him from the last decade, pushing the Academic Bill of Rights, which appeared in legislative bill form […]
The internet: invented in 2007, for plagiarism
Revealing language in Trip Gabriel’s story August 2 on plagiarism and the internet: In surveys from 2006 to 2010 by Donald L. McCabe, … [the proportion of undergraduates] who believed that copying from the Web constitutes “serious cheating” [declined] to 29 percent on average in recent surveys from 34 percent earlier in the decade. (My […]
Christopher Edley, Kevin Carey, and Yogi Berra
Kevin Carey’s discussion of Christopher Edley’s online gambit at the University of California skips over the comparisons many of us are making between Edley’s utopian vision and the utopian vision of other (failed) online ventures to say, “Hey, what about the long-distance future? Then, UC’s complete gamble looks good.” The temptation is to point to […]