Class Issues:
Jake Young points to a Bloggingheads conversation between Dan Drezner and Megan McArdle about, among other things, whether academics are bitter and why. This mostly comes out of a post Megan wrote (link is a leap of faith-- the site...
Posted on May 5, 2008 10:08 AM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Lawrence Watt-Evans is reposting some old Usenet essays on the subject of class, which regular readers will recognize as a hot-button issues for me. So far, he's up to part four of six. The list: Defining Terms Who I Am...
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Posted on April 28, 2008 7:32 AM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
As I may have mentioned in the past, we at Chateau Steelypips have benefitted greatly from Yale Law School's loan forgiveness program for graduates taking public service jobs. Since Kate shattered my dreams of a self-funded basement lab by deciding...
Posted on April 23, 2008 7:49 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Via Matt Yglesias, the Quick and the Ed offers an absolutely terrific article about the effect of class on access to college, using AJ Soprano as an example. On The Sopranos, AJ was a delinquent, who nevertheless got sent off...
Posted on April 3, 2008 11:46 AM • 16 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Forcing students to do mandatory "service" is the wrong way to go. And the Dean Dad has added another reason to the list of reasons why.
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Posted on March 27, 2008 10:46 AM • 10 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
EurekAlert provides the latest dispatch from the class war, the the form of a release headlined " Family wealth may explain differences in test scores in school-age children": The researchers found a marked disparity in family wealth between Black and...
Posted on March 25, 2008 8:58 AM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
On the subject of silly things said about academia, Matt Yglesias does a quick pass over "assessment,", and in the process recommends Alan Kruger's research that claims the benefits of elite colleges are all from selection effects. He links a...
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Posted on February 26, 2008 9:41 AM • 11 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Via Inside Higher Ed, the Boston Globe reports that the Pentagon opposes increasing GI Bill funding. Why? Because if they gave them full tuition, eligible soldiers might not re-enlist: Now, five years into the Iraq conflict, a movement is gathering...
Posted on February 11, 2008 7:40 AM • 10 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Over at the Whatever, Scalzi has some acid comments for Prof. Will Barrat's Social Class on Campus diagnostic tools, particularly the step forward exercise (I've linked the Web version-- John refers to the Word file): [F]or the purposes of this...
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Posted on January 4, 2008 9:40 AM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Kevin Drum looks at the latest story about American students lagging the world in science test scores, and notes that this has been going on at least since he was in school. This leads him to wonder whether it's really...
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Posted on December 6, 2007 9:11 AM • 25 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Inside Higher Ed offers two tables of numbers regarding the state of college football, one of them good, one of them bad.
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Posted on December 4, 2007 9:29 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
I generally listen to ESPN radio in my office in the morning, because I like the Mike & Mike show. Unfortunately, they're followed by Colin Cowherd, who is a world-class pinhead. He's currently holding forth on the death of Sean...
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Posted on November 28, 2007 11:03 AM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
This is somewhat belated, as it's no longer active, but I had a bunch of other things to do last week, and never got around to posting about Blog My Wage: HOPE asked Houston City Council member Peter Brown to...
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Posted on November 6, 2007 8:19 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
In today's New York Times Natalie Angier has a nice story about increased interest in physics: Many people wring their hands over the state of science education and point to the appalling performance of America's students in international science and...
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Posted on October 30, 2007 9:48 AM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
In the spirit of the newly clarified regulations governing the Academic Competitiveness Grant and National Science and Mathematics Access to Retain Talent (SMART) Grant Programs administered by the Department of Education, I am pleased to announce the Uncertain Principles Physics...
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Posted on October 15, 2007 9:05 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Yesterday's Danah Boyd article has produced a lot of responses around the Internet, with plenty of blogger types turning out to be social butterflies with accounts on both Facebook and MySpace. So much for social science, I guess. There was...
Posted on June 26, 2007 7:02 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
"Prof. Orzel gives the impression of an everyday guy who just happens to have a vast but hidden knowledge of physics." (anonymous student evaluation comment)
