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 […]
Craftwork academe
Last semester, a doctoral student at USF asked me, what were the methods of historians? I responded by talking in general about the uses of archival materials, publications, oral histories, multimedia, statistical data, all sorts of primary sources … and realized quickly that was not what the student meant or needed. What the student was […]
NYC teacher “value added” and the veneer of factuality
Teachers College sociologist Aaron Pallas takes a New York judge to task for miscategorizing what is Fact Or Opinion in the ruling to let the internal NYC "teacher ratings" become public. (The issue is on appeal, and the judge's ruling is stayed while the appeal is pending.) Essentially, Pallas's point is that with such uncertainty about the […]
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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