Obsolete pages deleted from USF directory
Housekeeping note: I have kept a number of obsolete pages on my college’s website server for several years, and this week the directory was deleted. I have the files and will upload some of them here, but that may take a few months to find the time necessary.
Education politics course, spring 2012 (draft syllabus)
Want to follow the Florida legislative session’s education activity in a structured course? Education Politics EDG 4909-006 (2 credit hours), CRN 26417 Spring 2012 Class time and place: Online with the following face-to-face meetings: Mandatory orientation: Friday, January 13, 2012, 2-4, EDU 115 Mid-term: Friday, March 9, 2012, 2-4, EDU 115 Final exam: time/place TBA (finals […]
“Widget Effect” report is rolling in its grave
You don’t have to be as flip as Leo Casey to see the problem with Jocelyn Huber’s op-ed in the Tennessean today, which is a generic, bland defense of tying student test scores to teacher and principal evaluation. Huber’s op-ed is almost certainly in response to Monday’s NYT article by Michael Winerip, which identifies (and dramatizes) the […]
Buy these books on dropping out and graduation
Two new books I saw at the History of Education Society meeting in Chicago and strongly recommend on a topic I began my career with: Russell Rumberger, Dropping Out (Harvard University Press, 2011). This is the definitive summary of research on the subject. It is depressing at times, but if you care about the subject, […]
“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 […]