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 […]
Studying the studying study: it’s foreign-language enrollments
About a month ago, the first coverage appeared of a March paper by Philip Babcock and Mindy Marks attempting to pin down changes in college student studying. Since then, lots of people have drawn all sorts of conclusions without reading the paper very carefully. The dominant representation of the paper is the usual declension story, […]