Tl;dr version: don’t waste your energy on trying to suss out The Position on National Charter School Politics. But why it doesn’t make much difference is different from the details of charter-school debates.
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This entry is a bit slice-of-academic-life and a bit perspective for doctoral students who want to be faculty at research universities. As a division director (and department chair at my last university), I have never directly hired tenure-track faculty but have always had significant advice for the deans I’ve reported to, and my experience leads me to sometimes-different perspectives from colleagues. In an era of adjunctification, it is all the more important to make hiring decisions as transparent as possible. And with the limitation that I am just one faculty member with administrative experience at only two institutions in one type of college, here goes:
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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 finding aid — a descriptive index of a collection they had, that wasn’t yet online. The finding aid was 200 pages long, describing a collection of 450 linear feet — that means 450 shelving feet, or more than 200 office-style boxes of material.
The archive was for the Children’s Television Workshop, now called Sesame Workshop, which has produced the children’s television show Sesame Street since November 10, 1969, and is also known for The Electric Company and 3-2-1 Contact.
The first piece from this work is now online at the Arizona Republic, about the day Barry Goldwater held the fate of Sesame Street in his hands. It’s a little shorter than the original version, but I had to follow up on the Arizona connection. Goldwater’s papers are here at Arizona State, but not easily accessible as the main Tempe library is currently under reconstruction. So.. more to come.
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?
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Fall is a perfect time for grad students to brush up a vitae. This entry began as a (very long) Twitter thread in summer, but after Phoenix temperatures declined from 115 F. to 102 F., it’s time for hot cider and editing.
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