Zombie idea: short-cut high schools
I guess I was wrong yesterday in labeling Utah State Senator Chris Buttars as obviously out of the mainstream in terms of practices. The New York Times reports today on something that slipped under my radar: two-year high school degree options based on an idiosyncratic constellation of what the article calls “board exams.” Not too surprisingly, […]
Expanding digital humanities through diversification
Alex Reid’s discussion of how to tip digital humanities practices into “early majority” status (hat tip) pushed a few ideas into alignment in my head, and while he has a pretty standard institutional perspective, it’s headed in the wrong direction for a variety of reasons. The best and most productive way to expand the world […]
Heady, headwinds, or just headstrong?
Two education stories caught my eye this evening: the attempt by a Rhode Island superintendent to use state law on school interventions to trump collective bargaining and fire all teachers at one high school, and the trial balloon floated by a Utah state senator to end 12th grade in the state, or make it optional. […]
Books are not going to disappear from libraries
Student views of libraries are apparently all over the map when asked by the New York Times whether libraries need books anymore… but I think that’s always been the case. Libraries serve multiple constituencies, and if you had phrased the question differently in different eras and for different media — for example, “do libraries still […]
The message of opening access to AP courses: “Take chances, make mistakes, get messy!”
Someone reminded me that because I was crazy-busy in the fall, I didn’t comment on one local controversy a few months ago, so this is a catch-up post of sorts, in part justified by the February 4 story in USA Today and Leslie Postal’s story earlier this week in the Orlando Sentinel. The St. Pete Times […]