Horowitz is becoming a little more clever
Cue voice of Don LaFontaine: He’s back, he’s got a bionic brain, and he’s coming after the Victorian specialist in your department. As Inside Higher Ed reported this morning, David Horowitz has a new schtick. You may remember him from the last decade, pushing the Academic Bill of Rights, which appeared in legislative bill form […]
The internet: invented in 2007, for plagiarism
Revealing language in Trip Gabriel’s story August 2 on plagiarism and the internet: In surveys from 2006 to 2010 by Donald L. McCabe, … [the proportion of undergraduates] who believed that copying from the Web constitutes “serious cheating” [declined] to 29 percent on average in recent surveys from 34 percent earlier in the decade. (My […]
Christopher Edley, Kevin Carey, and Yogi Berra
Kevin Carey’s discussion of Christopher Edley’s online gambit at the University of California skips over the comparisons many of us are making between Edley’s utopian vision and the utopian vision of other (failed) online ventures to say, “Hey, what about the long-distance future? Then, UC’s complete gamble looks good.” The temptation is to point to […]
Yes, Tim, there are people who bash teachers
Last week, Tim Daly argued that there was no such thing as a “bash the teacher” group. Strangely, nobody can credibly identify any members of this nefarious crowd…. Perhaps the danger lies in subversive policies, not words. Allegations of teacher bashing often surface when districts dismiss ineffective teachers…. What part of any of this could […]
Problem #37 with critical thinking
The last entry on trends in college-student studying time is a little of what Jonathan Zimmerman calls the historian’s scold (“you didn’t get that right!”), but moreso it’s an attempt to fight a popular availability bias, the thumbnail narrative of declension. As I was trimming my beard this morning (I do that every three years […]