Sep 30th, 2009
I’m teaching a course called The Politics of Education to an awesome group of our doctoral students this semester. The wiki/syllabus (a living, breathing document) is located HERE. You can participate and help my students’ (and my own) learning in a couple of ways. First, tagging…anything that you think might be related to what the [...]
Jun 5th, 2008
I’m sure I’m not the first to write about this, but Scott McLeod delivered his latest list of the (potentially) top 50 P-12 education blogs and he got me thinking. The list is what it is…a ranking based on one metric: how many other blogs (and blogs only) have linked to a given blog. As [...]
May 1st, 2008
The link below is to a video of a segment from a Bob Costas show that aired last night. If you’ve come to my blog and know what I tend to write about, even if you’re not a sports fan, you’ll be riveted by this video. It’s worth spending the full 18 minutes watching it [...]
Apr 29th, 2008
John Hendron points us to an article about work that his former Superintendent, Dr. Frank Morgan, is doing in Kershaw County, SC. Speaking about the use of podcasting, Dr. Morgan is quoted as saying, “I’ve just found it powerful…We live in a different world now, so we have to use multiple means to communicate with [...]
Apr 8th, 2008
I’m not holding my breath. Jay Mathews’ Washington Post article (free registration required) about the best education blogs somehow managed to exclude me. I think I know why. One of the very first things I did as a doctoral student was to try to statistically ”disprove” (I was a kid; I thought you could actually “prove” [...]