Yogi Berra and educational technology
We will have a revolution in how higher education in designed, organized and delivered in the next 50 years – and this educational revolution will pivot around some technology or set of technologies. [But] we cannot accurately predict what this technology catalyzed and enabled postsecondary education revolution will be, what shape it will take, and […]
How has school attainment varied across countries in the last 50 years?
Now that Valerie Strauss has called my field the unsexy academic arena of education history, albeit while trying to calm down those affected by "Ravitch Rage," I should evidently switch fields, maybe to something sexier like economics of education or even Fuller brush sales. But before I quit not only the field of the history […]
Sunbelt states the worst place to learn STEM?
On Friday, the American Institutes of Physics released a rating of states by a "Science and Engineering Readiness Index" (or SERI). The Orlando Sentinel blog covered this late Friday night, but I have delayed comment until the end of the holiday weekend and I suspect few of you were going to read it anyway. But you […]
Civic protest and inversion rituals
A picture of gay-rights protests in Turkey distributed to Twitter in the last week is one of these "wow" moments of modern life, like the picture of the protester in Tahrir Square expressing solidarity with public workers in Wisconsin. Civic protest is something that is both wondrous when you see it halfway across the world and worrisome […]
The right to write
From one of the many victims of the Righthaven scum, on the pending collapse of the blackmailing/barritry scheme in court: This Fourth of July, none of it is abstract. None of it is patriotic bromides. I’ve had my run-in with unfreedom, and I’ve watched the institutions of my country take firm action against unfreedom. —Margaret […]