Brief note justifying the lack of productivity this week
I have gotten less done this week in Seattle than I expected. I did the right thing and walked around the city as much as I could when not in the AFT convention’s business meetings. Since Seattle has real hills, this is healthy exercise, and I used the Pike Place Market six blocks from the […]
Convention dynamics
This is my second AFT convention. I observed the 2006 NEA representative assembly as a microphone volunteer, and I’ve participated in a number of other organizational meetings of various sorts over the years. With both the NEA and AFT, there’s an internal meta-procedural discussion about the openness of the meeting itself, and that happened in […]
Happy George day!
Today is the Day Between for those of us who live in the U.S., though I suspect for many it’s more of a Carsickness holiday, or a How in the Heck Do I Light the Charcoal Again? day (though sometimes people delay that joy until the next day). July 3 is the Day Between, the […]
Ooh-datorians
Lovely: another faux trend story from the New York Times, this time about the honoring of multiple valedictorians, and then the easily-anticipated “standards must be dropping!” outcry from those who worry about these things. I remember that my school district started honoring multiple straight-A students in the late 1970s and early 1980s, and weighted AP […]
Yes, Virginia, there is a need for more science education
Today may be a lost day for me work-wise, thanks to a number of circumstances, including a raging thunderstorm overhead that threatens the power where I am. But I don’t think I’m going to blame higher ed policy in Florida for all of that. I have a similar reaction to The Real Science Gap, which […]