Barry Goldwater and Sesame Street
I was scheduled to travel in December with one of our Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College doctoral students to the University of Maryland special collections (archive) to study some of the history of educational broadcasting. It’s part of a new project we have. Five days before we left, one of the archivists sent me a […]
An immodest proposal for conference organizing
Yesterday, my 15,000 closest colleagues and I received an email from the meeting staff of the American Educational Research Association (AERA), telling us that the schedule for the April meeting would be set six weeks before the meeting itself. The meeting is five days long, and attendees with presentations currently have no idea when they’ll be obligated to be in Toronto. Meanwhile, could we please register and set up hotel reservations?