From the end-user side the meta-deta and format comments on this great post make the most sense. Like many people, I rely upon internet databases to do research. Academic edited volumes rarely have per chapter tagging. So, the book may not be tagged according to my interest or search because it is too broad. AndRead More
Monthly Archives: August 2012
A Note About Statistical Significance
Before your eyes glaze over (or you sharpen your claws, depending on your orientation towards such things) I’ll ask you a little indulgence. Several incidents employing statistical methods have happened in my small corner of the world in the past three days. They have forced me to articulate some of my issues with how we,Read More “A Note About Statistical Significance”
Blog Migration: The Public Shaming of Shirley Sherrod
Note: This is one of those old posts that is getting new life thanks to public events. If you haven’t read Ta’heisi Coates’ “Fear of A Black President” by now then you’re obviously not on black(nerd)twitter. This was written contemporaneously of the Sherrod shame (7/21/10). I offer it only as a counterpoint to readings ofRead More “Blog Migration: The Public Shaming of Shirley Sherrod”
For-Profit or Trad? How Do You Know And Why You Should Ask: College App Edition
My friend Akil Bello owns a professional admissions test prep company, the delightfully ironically named Bell Curves. Knowing my work, Akil was kind enough to ask me to offer some free advice on institutional types to young people preparing for college applications. There are a few reasons that I happily said yes. One, an IHEPRead More “For-Profit or Trad? How Do You Know And Why You Should Ask: College App Edition”
I was trained in the Sandy Darity school of academic presentations…and the Vivian school of self-defense. I think a lot of people should take their life classes. Because this kind of bullying is never OK and too few of us in academia train junior scholars on how to deal with it. Even fewer of usRead More
Different Bodies & Different Lives In Academia: Why The Rules Aren’t The Same For Everyone
Part of professionalization in academia involves learning the unpublished rules of how to act, engage, and be an academic. Almost all of us, at some point of our training, is pulled aside and told the “real” rules of publishing, teaching, and cocktail mixers. Minorities – be they ethnic, class, or gendered – sometimes don’t getRead More “Different Bodies & Different Lives In Academia: Why The Rules Aren’t The Same For Everyone”
For-profits for the common good? A Tierney mash-up
As I said in an earlier post about William Tierney’s HuffPo article on for-profits, I respect Bill a great deal. However, with today’s memo on Inside Higher Education about the importance of political investment in higher education I am a bit confused. In the HuffPo article, Bill says: With all this bad press, one mightRead More “For-profits for the common good? A Tierney mash-up”
Respectfully Disagreeing: My Latest on HuffPo
William Tierney is president of AERA, an organization that was my first professional academic home. I respect Bill’s work a great deal. However, his article in HuffingtonPost today and for-profits made what I consider a tactical omission. In battles of legitimacy we too often mistake legal authority with rightful authority. One can have the legalRead More “Respectfully Disagreeing: My Latest on HuffPo”
P.R.E.A.M.: Page Views Rule Everything Around Me; New Media, Old Tricks
My friend and colleague in the struggle, T.F. Charlton, has been hot on the trail of biased media narrative that emerged from mass media’s coverage of the Olympics. At the head of the pack were the many stories that seemed unable to come to grips with Gabby Douglas, the talented mini-dynamo who now has severalRead More “P.R.E.A.M.: Page Views Rule Everything Around Me; New Media, Old Tricks”