Isn’t Florida guaranteed a republican form of government?
The first draft of the new Florida Educator Accomplished Practices was released last month for public comment on a form that allows almost little substantive feedback. The accomplished practices are supposed to serve as the minimum elements of educator preparation programs, and I understand the balance between micromanagement and platitudes is hard to strike. The […]
The currency of higher education in America
I winced reading today’s Inside Higher Ed column by Arthur Levine and hoped for a second that someone was impersonating him. I checked it against my Higher Education Commentary Bingo Card: bubble industrial society dinosaur unchanging decrepit distracted digital native dumbest generation swirling millennial generation seat-time anytime/anyplace Free (by Chris Anderson) mobile or ubiquitous learning […]
The teacher jobs bill is still needed and sensible
Rick Hess’s blog continues to be interesting and well-written, and while he is out of the country, he’s recruited as substitute bloggers two of the new generation of political scientists focusing on education, Patrick McGuinn and Paul Manna. They have been a welcome addition to the field, and I look forward to what they have […]
Remedial/development education, required reading
If you’re interested in community-college remedial/developmental programs and you haven’t yet, go read an excellent feature by Bill Maxwell that appeared last Sunday in the St. Petersburg Times Perspective section. Because it’s in the paper’s opinion section, Maxwell is free to add his judgment, but for the most part this is just a good feature, […]
Unholy alliance proposal #573: FinReg and journalism
By Sherman Dorn on June 16, 2010
Inspired by a blog entry today by Ezra Klein’s research intern and today’s Dilbert cartoon, I had a crazy thought for addressing both the decline of commercial journalism and Wall Street lapses: is there a way to give solid journalism a revenue source that also forces more transparency/responsibility on Wall Street? One idea for better […]
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