Marketing by outlandish blogging
So now we know, according to a Fordham Institute blog entry today, that Mike Petrilli’s anti-union entry yesterday was a clever advertisement for a Beltway roundtable on “Rethinking Education Governance in the 21st Century.” Because, you know, they couldn’t get Snooki for it. Governance reform? That’s really what this is about: governance reform???
Obsolete pages deleted from USF directory
Housekeeping note: I have kept a number of obsolete pages on my college’s website server for several years, and this week the directory was deleted. I have the files and will upload some of them here, but that may take a few months to find the time necessary.
Education politics course, spring 2012 (draft syllabus)
Want to follow the Florida legislative session’s education activity in a structured course? Education Politics EDG 4909-006 (2 credit hours), CRN 26417 Spring 2012 Class time and place: Online with the following face-to-face meetings: Mandatory orientation: Friday, January 13, 2012, 2-4, EDU 115 Mid-term: Friday, March 9, 2012, 2-4, EDU 115 Final exam: time/place TBA (finals […]
“Widget Effect” report is rolling in its grave
You don’t have to be as flip as Leo Casey to see the problem with Jocelyn Huber’s op-ed in the Tennessean today, which is a generic, bland defense of tying student test scores to teacher and principal evaluation. Huber’s op-ed is almost certainly in response to Monday’s NYT article by Michael Winerip, which identifies (and dramatizes) the […]
Buy these books on dropping out and graduation
Two new books I saw at the History of Education Society meeting in Chicago and strongly recommend on a topic I began my career with: Russell Rumberger, Dropping Out (Harvard University Press, 2011). This is the definitive summary of research on the subject. It is depressing at times, but if you care about the subject, […]