Faculty jobs–yes, even this year
My college is not searching for a huge number of faculty, just three. But if you are interested in a tenure-track position in school psychology, educational measurement (I think the title of the position is "quantitative analysis"), and instructional technology, apply in the next several weeks.
On heterodox teaching decisions
Tim Burke's blog entry "Providing the Bricks, Not the Building" is a little obscure, but one piece of it makes me wonder about academic parochialism. Apparently a few of Burke's colleagues at Swarthmore feel it is inappropriate for a social historian to bring literature from anthropology, cultural studies, etc., into a history class at a liberal-arts […]
Facebook, teacher ethics, and history
This weekend's Tampa area news story about the Plant City High School teacher who gave a student a contraceptive is at one level a story about a (former!) teacher who had no boundaries and no common sense. She had a student on her Facebook list, gave him a morning-after contraceptive package after he was worried he had […]
“Discovery learning” is inappropriate when people die
Cath Lugg's continuing discussion of LGBT students' suicides reminds us that civilization is a thin veneer. It may be ideal from one standpoint to socialize children so that they're shocked to realize there is inequality in the world, but that's a luxury that's equivalent to "discovery" preferences of some educators. When she was five years old, my […]
The deficit and empirical game-theory research
I've had my three-hour meeting for the day (yes, on Sunday), so I'm rewarding myself with a small square of spicy chocolate and a blog entry on politics. The Commission for Very Serious Person Theater is missing a huge chunk of government spending by focusing only on the federal budget deficit and ignoring state spending […]