“This isn’t the business incubator you’re looking for…”
I’ve stayed away from commenting on the proposal to spin USF’s smallest campus away as a separate polytechnic university because I’ve been fairly busy with other things and because I’m confident in the ability of both faculty governance and my union to represent the interests of faculty in the system. For the record, the USF […]
“If I just had one more hour in the day…”
Congratulations! You have just been awarded an extra hour in your day, as a reward for living on this planet in this century. ((Offer not valid in time zones without a switch between daylight savings time and standard time on November 6, 2011.)) You will have to pay it off within six months, but today, […]
En route
I’m at the Tampa airport waiting for my flight to Chicago. This semester I am traveling to a single conference, for the History of Education Society. It’s my last year as the HES book exhibit coordinator, and I’m presenting material on comparative attainment data. Because I was traveling last weekend as well (to visit my […]
Florida NAEP scale scores stagnant over past 4 years
Just a quick note after perusing the inferred scale score means for the National Assessment of Educational Progress released this morning, which adds 2011 data. For fourth and eighth grades in reading and math, it looks as if the state has seen a general plateau over the past three test administrations. As has been the […]
In search of “Copier Use: The Musical”
My department office manager has been concerned for a few weeks recently with paper use, and while this is the sort of thing I always told myself I’d hate myself for writing, I committed it. I remember a long, long time ago, far, far away, seeing monthly lists of which faculty used how many pieces of […]