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Furlough Fridays

I am fortunate to have a broad vantage point on education that spans kindergarten through graduate school. In addition to...

One Plate I Definitely Don't Want to Drop

For a few months there, I thought I was finally getting a handle on this “balancing work and life” thing...

Love is Not Proud

Mrs. Churm, on the prospect of my being called for campus interviews: "I can’t believe you use that harsh deodorant...

The Times Whiffs Again

Several alert readers sent me links to this article from the New York Times. It's a weirdly chipper "pick up...

Video Projects, not Video Viewing

One good thing that I hope emerges from our whole discussion on curricular video and copyright is an extension of...

Sequestration reality check

The last time I did algebra in these pages, I crashed and burned. But the compulsion, triggered by President Obama's...

Motherhood after tenure: evaluation time

We received our fall semester course evaluations on the first day of the spring semester. The timing seems akin to...

Are Green Jobs the New Metric System?

A few years ago I mentioned my bewilderment at why the failure of the push to adopt the metric system...