Rape Culture 101: A Love Letter to My Fellow Rape Survivors
The PubPeer Foundation
PubPeer, which “seeks to create an online community that uses the publication of scientific results as an opening for fruitful discussion among scientists,” has established The PubPeer Foundation “to help improve the quality of scientific research by enabling innovative approaches for community interaction.” According to Retraction Watch, “the commenting site has allowed for robust discussions…
The Tyranny of Standardized Testing
What has been happening to our public schools is beginning to happen to our colleges. The tyranny of testing is filtering up. We involved in higher education need to be listening to the experiences of those involved in K-12, as the author of this post, Jamaal Bowman, is:
Of Rachmaninoff's Hands and Oliver Sacks' Beard
Milestones for the Academe Blog!
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The Future That Is Already Here Isn’t Much of a Future
Here is the weekly newsletter from Education Dive, which focuses largely on digital innovations in higher education: The first article somewhat blithely acknowledges that “instructor availability” is one of the major concerns of students enrolled in MOOCs, as if it is a problem that can be resolved with more “innovation,” rather than one of the…
Stephen King and Donald Trump
…It’s not only the geniuses who have the problem. They are the lucky ones—or, in some cases, the unlucky. At either end of the mass of us…. Stephen King wrote an op-ed piece for The New York Times the other day, “Can a Novelist Be Too Productive?” My immediate response was, “No, but who cares?”…
How to Fight for Education Funding
Maybe some of us in higher education might think about what these K-12 teachers in Washington State have done, as reported in Labor Notes: Lawmakers in Washington state are scrambling to get ready for a special session after the state’s highest court announced it will start charging a penalty of $100,000 per day while legislators…
California Task Force Recommends Replacing ACCJC
If you have been following my long series of posts about the accreditation controversy at City College of San Francisco (CCSF), you are aware that I have been one of many critics of the Accrediting Commission for Community and Junior Colleges (ACCJC), an independent entity of the Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC) charged…