Ooh-datorians
Lovely: another faux trend story from the New York Times, this time about the honoring of multiple valedictorians, and then the easily-anticipated “standards must be dropping!” outcry from those who worry about these things. I remember that my school district started honoring multiple straight-A students in the late 1970s and early 1980s, and weighted AP […]
Yes, Virginia, there is a need for more science education
Today may be a lost day for me work-wise, thanks to a number of circumstances, including a raging thunderstorm overhead that threatens the power where I am. But I don’t think I’m going to blame higher ed policy in Florida for all of that. I have a similar reaction to The Real Science Gap, which […]
I’ve got a bad feeling about this, Obey
So Rep. Obey (Wisconsin) is proposing to pay for a $10B boost to school districts in part by stripping hundreds of millions of dollars from RTTT and TIF? According to Ed Week reporters, the total offset from this move would be about 8% of the total cost, less than $1B, so I don’t really buy […]
Accessibility and the e-reader
A brief note about the federal government’s warning on college distribute of e-readers and students with disabilities: the concern is warranted, and it’s much better for the warning to come now than to come after colleges and universities spend millions of dollars (or require students to spend millions of dollars) without the due diligence needed. […]