StickWithANose

I was just discussing the Milgram experiments in my Soc. class this morning, and let me say that it is amusing to watch students struggle with the idea that anybody [if put in the wrong context] is capable of becoming a monster. I just wish that I had seen this article prior to the lecture…
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Even though I fully expected Obama to produce a revamp of NCLB that would carry the stamp of approval from the Business Round-table, I must admit that I was surprised that Obama would adopt such a cynical institutionalization of failure that it makes GW look down right progressive [whatever that may mean these days] in [...]

Higher education has always felt that it was somewhat insulated from the political machinations dominating the less scholarly primary and secondary sectors. However, any honest review of current trajectories in education policy should lead to the obvious conclusion that the “accountability” madness now sweeping public schooling will make its way into the tertiary sector, and [...]

Did the New York Times have to publish an article on the growing share of federal student loan money being gobbled up by for-profit trade schools and on-line colleges with little to show for it in terms of academic outcomes on the same day that I completed my paperwork to become an instructor at just [...]

To follow up on the chicanery down in Jesus-Texas-land, it looks like the nut-jobs have won the day. Now we can only watch the crazy ooze out of Texas into text-books nationally. NYT
After three days of turbulent meetings, the Texas Board of Education on Friday voted to approve a social studies curriculum that will put [...]

I’ve been posting on the stupidity going down in Texas over its new curriculum standards for some time, and the madness now looks poised to go into overdrive. The genius behind this push to introduce conservatism into the social studies curriculum, Don McLeroy, has proven to be too crazy for even his evangelical base and [...]

Former Assistant Secretary of Education under George H. Bush and Bill Clinton and noted think tank scholar Diane Ravitch has undergone a conversion of sorts from being a strong proponent of charter schools to a fierce opponent. The impetus for her conversion is the mounting evidence that, despite their popularity on both sides of the [...]