ESEA political scorecard: Halloween version
Look! It’s some of our favorite pundits and advocates dressed up in classic costumes just in time for Halloween. Let’s start with the Dickensian getups.
I don’t think the weather wants me to visit my daughter
When I helped my daughter move into her student apartment at the beginning of her school year, Hurricane Irene came tromping by to interrupt. Now? It is parents’ weekend at her college, and we had a winter storm at the end of October, one that dumped snow in areas of the Eastern seaboard that don’t […]
College loan proposals: who’s got recent graduates covered?
I have rarely timed my writing so well: a few days after I pointed out the obvious link between Occupy Wall Street, college-related debt of former students, and the new (and inadequate) income-based repayment program for student loans, the president announces changes to the income-based repayment program to reduce the debt-overhang burden on recent graduates […]
Register your students to vote in Florida, pay a fine
New Smyrna Beach teacher Jill Cicciarelli taught her students about more than civics this year when she helped a number of Volusia County high school students register to vote at the beginning of the year, as she had for a number of years. The lesson this year: if you help fellow citizens to vote, you […]
Annual leave, furloughs, and the academic speed-up
This Friday I will be taking my first vacation day as a faculty member ever, in a little over 15 years at USF. Nine-month faculty do not get annual leave, and it is only with the shift in August to a 12-month position (as chair) that I started to accrue annual leave. ((Nine-month faculty do […]