Monthly Archives: May, 2012
The Price of Motherhood: Policy, Penalties, and For-Profits
A new report on for-profit colleges was issued by the Institute for Women’s Policy Research today. In short, the paper finds: Student parents at for-profit colleges are taking on 10 … Continue reading
Public Intellectual Goodness from Friends
Today my twitter-league, Rhonda Ragsdale, launched the public interface of her research agenda on historic black towns. It’s a wonderful project that may be of particular interest to my many … Continue reading
The Economics of PhDing
From GenomeWeb comes a summary of Lee Skallerup Bessette’s post on Insider Higher Ed about one of the hidden expenses of academic life: the conference debt. This post started as … Continue reading
claude fischer on recent poverty research
Reblogged from orgtheory.net: Boston Review has a new article by sociologist Claude Fischer on the topic of poverty research. He covers a lot of ground in a few pages. For … Continue reading
For-profit College: Route to Opportunity or Unemployment?
Reblogged from karlyberezowsky: By: Karly Berezowsky Published by Ground Report at: http://www.groundreport.com/Business/For-profit-College-Route-to-Opportunity-or-Unemplo/2945584 For-profit colleges have landed in the spotlight for deceptive advertising tactics and for giving out degrees that weren’t … Continue reading
The Case of The Chronicle of Higher Education
I had about as much intention of rehashing this as I ever have any intention of buying generic breakfast cereal. But unlike King Vitamin some things beg to be reconsidered. … Continue reading
Tweeting with CHE
Reblogged from zunguzungu: The Chronicle of Higher Education has done the sensible thing and fired Naomi Schaefer Riley: We now agree that Ms. Riley’s blog posting did not meet The Chronicle’s basic … Continue reading
What A Long Strange Trip It’s Been…
When I pulled off the highway during rush hour traffic to type out a response to Schaefer Riley’s attack on my iPad* I was being self-serving. I was serving MY … Continue reading
The Inferiority of Blackness as a Subject
I am writing this very quickly while on the side of Interstate 20. I am also struggling mightily to not use my colorful repertoire of insanely rhythmic and appropriate curse … Continue reading
Add White Kids and Stir is Not Good Education Policy
I commend the Times for at least acknowledging the anniversary of Brown v. Board this week, but I take some issue with the conclusions opinion writer David L. Kirp makes. … Continue reading →