Yglesias will cite magnolia blooms if it boosts argument against Libya intervention
A brief break from education writing: This morning’s blog entry by Yglesias argues that intervention in Libya is bad for budget discipline. Wow. After spending so much effort and time to make the case that what matters for the budget is long-term structure, he’s undercut it in 15 minutes of reaching for straws in the […]
Florida House attacks college-teacher tenure, unless you’re the president
Tomorrow, the Florida House K-20 Competitiveness Subcommittee has on its agenda a newly-filed proposed committee bill that would eliminate tenure in the Florida College System. The Florida College System is the set of more than two dozen former community colleges that educate hundreds of thousands of Floridians every year. (California has a three-tier public higher-ed system; […]
Florida SB 736: Overreach and overpromise
This week Florida Governor Rick Scott signed Senate Bill 736, which attempts to change a number of working conditions for teachers in Florida's public schools. The headline issues: For new teachers hired after June 30 this year, it prohibits any employment contract longer than one year. The bill also mandates that a derivative of student […]
Union elections
Tomorrow is vote-counting for our chapter of the United Faculty of Florida. EDU 214 on the Tampa campus of the University of South Florida, beginning at noon, if you want to come watch in person. I am not on the ballot for chapter officers because I agreed to become department chair starting in August, and […]
Confirmation-bias square-dance
Got this in the email yesterday: For skeptics who say school vouchers don't work, Greg Forster, a senior fellow at the Foundation for Educational Choice, decided to go back and review the data… I guess the press-release writer didn't read my blog entry Monday about confirmation bias. I haven't read the think-tank paper, but the […]