Week o’ slogging
It's a little before noon on Tuesday, and I can tell this is going to be the week when I wade through the swamp, tearing out invasive plants one by one. Or maybe I'm pulling the sled alone. Or on KP duty. Pick your metaphor: lots of tasks piled up and 238 emails in my […]
Please leave your magic numbers on the magic carpet with the magic wand
The shorter Bill Tucker: "No, you pull a number out of the air." Well, buckaroos, if anyone's going to be all airy-fairy on this quantitative-component teacher-evaluation thing, it's going to be all Ivory Tower, historian me. But I don't think you'd like that. Maybe I should explain. Tucker's argument in a nutshell is, "Okay, if […]