An academic’s brief iPad review comment
I’m going to skip all the technical stuff you can read in other reviews of the device, so here’s the bottom line: the iPad is useful for anyone who needs to read a lot of PDFs without significant effort, comment on some of them, and otherwise carry around significant electronic documents. For a faculty member, […]
Veritas? Caveat!
There’s a new paper by Harvard researchers Matthew Chingos and Martin West on what ex-Florida teachers make, and relationships between post-teaching income and during-teaching value-added measures that I’m sure some will tout as proof that SB 6 and any like performance-pay plans are desperately needed. Err, no. Fortunately, Chingos and West do not make that […]
Dorn reviews Ravitch
My review of Diane Ravitch’s new book is now up at the Education Review website. I should have finished it a few weeks ago, but the fragmentation of my time this spring has interrupted all sorts of usually-short-term projects, such as book reviews. If there is one benefit to the delay, it was my ability […]
Misinterpretations of Crist’s veto, and where to go next
I suspect that a number of observers will spin Charlie Crist’s veto of Senate Bill 6 to the point where the representation doesn’t come close to reality. By a quirk of timing, I was in Tallahassee today talking with legislators and staffers in the morning. In other words, I was at Ground Veto. Yep: I […]
Concern trolling about union democracy
Over at Jay Greene’s blog, Greg Forster points out that the majority of weighted votes in the last United Federation of Teachers election were not from current classroom teachers. This is corruption! is the implication. Er, no. It’s called following the legal bylaws of an organization. I haven’t heard Forster call for the reweighting of […]