Chris Christie hates the First Amendment
Probably not that much, but New Jersey’s governor ignored a truth about private associations as he tried out the “love the sinner teacher, hate the sin union” line at his keynote address last night: We believe that the majority of teachers in America know our system must be reformed to put students first so that […]
NCLB goose, meet Virginia-waiver gander
Over this last weekend, the gigantic inequalities in Virginia’s NCLB-waiver plan became a target of criticism by former Virginia state board member Andrew Rotherham, among others. Essentially, Virginia decided to set different academic achievement expectations by race and ethnicity, and many have legitimately pointed out that such policies allow many schools to evade responsibility for […]
Federal regulations are not generally written to have pilots and adjustments
Over the past week, different groups are maneuvering around the writing of regulations for Title II of the Higher Education Act, which focuses on teacher education. Education Week has been covering the lobbying that’s developed after the breakdown of attempted stakeholder negotiations over the regulations, with articles last Wednesday on a coalition of higher-education organizations ((Disclosure: […]
Non-hurricane day
What happens when there is a hurricane day at the start of a semester? I know part of the answer, and we’ll find out the rest of the week.
Universities and MOOCs and zombies
It’s the last day of MOOCMOOC, or Hybrid Pedagogy‘s massive open online course about massive open online courses. I was one of 591 registered participants, which made it less massive than the largest lecture classes at universities, yet still larger than any formal class I have ever taken. Several posts from earlier this week were […]