The necessary luxury?
This is a rambling post I started last year, rambling that reflects the general confusion today about how to explain the value of education and formal schooling. For the record, my answer to the question at the end is yes, but I'm trying to sort out some of the issues here rather than argue for […]
NCTQ tries mail-merge for state policy brief page on pensions
The St. Pete Times blog, The Gradebook, is reporting on the National Council on Teacher Quality release of state-level reports on teacher policy (see the NCTQ Florida brief here). Ron Matus focused on one page of the brief, about teacher pensions, which is a little surprising given that (a) the rest of the brief's content is far more […]
SOTUB: State of the Union Bingo
In part to make a point for (and get a minor laugh out of) my class this morning while introducing a presentation on how schools acquired the job of acquiring jobs, I put together a Bingo card for tonight's State of the Union address, using a list of words I created independently but that will […]
Monday meetings and social debt
A few years ago, someone who was in a position to know said that the only day of the week to start a meeting with school leaders (especially superintendents) was Monday, before fires popped up that had to be put out. Some weeks I think the only day of the week to get work done […]
Hawk needs a hawser in the house
By Sherman Dorn on January 25, 2011
NPR has picked up on the news of an unusual patron of the Library Of Congress, a gorgeous Cooper's Hawk who has been in the LOC's main reading room for almost a week. Apparently it's still there today, not yet captured by wildlife experts trying to help it. [Insert obvious joke about stubborn library patrons here.] […]
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