Michael Olneck on badges
U. Wisconsin professor emeritus and sociologist Michael Olneck wrote me the following in response to my 2011 blog entry on badges and exchange credentials: I was reading your September 25, 2011 blog, “‘Credentialized badge’” is an oxymoron?,” in which you identify Scouting merit badges (and associated ranks) with “nominal,” rather than “exchange-based” credentials. I think […]
Quick note on Tony Bennett: anchor cases and leadership
I’m trying to get some other things done today, but the news on Tony Bennett is dominating education reporting in Florida this week, and my two cents’ worth of response is easy to explain. Essentially, the emails AP dug up through a public records request showed that when he was the state superintendent in Indiana, […]
Do your friends suffer from AUDS?
It has now been decades since the wiser and more humane adults in this society identified the injustice of stigma for all sorts of conditions. We have gone from cancer being the unspoken disease to having well-known charity drives for cancer research and treatment. We have the Americans with Disabilities Act and a solid push […]
Florida’s education clunkocracy
Yesterday, the Florida Board of Education voted to change the rules by which the state Department of Education labels local public and charter schools with letter grades each summer. The 4-3 vote was far from its usual unanimous endorsement of the education commissioner’s recommendation.
Odds and ends
On the good side, it’s Bastille Day, and I survived my biweekly killer workout. ((This does not mean I’m in good shape but that I’m in better shape than if I had stayed home.)) On the other hand, I’m depressed about virtually everything involving the prosecution of George Zimmerman, and not concentrating well as a result. […]