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 […]
Weingarten, teacher evaluation, and the long haul
I started this entry Tuesday, before the Haiti earthquake, thinking about long-term policy changes. There are a number of students and staff at USF, as well as Tampa-area residents, who are worried about relatives or who are now in mourning. Sometimes the long term pauses while you take care of immediate needs. Well, it doesn’t […]
Haiti earthquake
The major earthquake near Port-au-Prince has destroyed hundreds of buildings in the Haiti capital, probably killed thousands, and the news looks very bad. The Lambi Fund blog entry is brief and upsetting. If there’s one good thing, it’s that when I attempted to donate to the Lambi Fund, the form is hanging on submission, and I hope that’s […]
Spot temperature:Climate::Test score:____________
I fully expect that within a week (if not yet already) some climate-change skeptic will use the cold wave currently freezing much of the country as an argument that climate changing really isn’t happening. And every time there’s a vicious cold snap in winter or a cooler-than-average summer we get the argument. And some reporter […]