Florida legislative session education preview
Former Miami Herald reporter and current free-lancer Gary Fineout has a solid legislative session preview on education policy in this morning’s Sarasota Herald-Tribune (hat tip). I may disagree with his predictions on the margins, but on the whole I think he’s on the money in identifying the obvious issues. Fineout was starting his analysis from […]
Ebook readers and markets
At the beginning of the month, one of The Big Things at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas was the proliferation of electronic readers (or ebook readers), and as someone who bought a Sony ebook reader a few years ago for work purposes, I have a few thoughts that are different from the standard […]
Collegiality: It’s harder to separate ideas from people than you might think
As the president of the USF chapter of Florida’s statewide faculty union, it’s part of my job to defend the academic due process rights of That Guy.* If you’ve worked at a college or university, you’ve had to deal with That Guy, a generally prickly personality more commonly male than female who may have some good […]
Odds and ends from the peanut gallery
It’s a few minutes before closing at this Super-Brand coffee store, so it’s time for a few thoughts… The successor editorial team at Education Policy Analysis Archives/Archivos Analiticos de Politicas Educativas has unveiled the new website. New submissions should head there. For a few months you’ll still see articles I accepted, but otherwise, go Gustavo […]
Starting the semester with a bang
As some of you may know, my semester started out with a bang, or a crash, or at least some broken lights. Minor car accident Monday morning; I stopped for a yellow light, but the driver of the van behind me didn’t get the clues. There have been some other things going on since the beginning […]