Nov 19, 2011

Who is in the audience?

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There is an essential tension hidden in our professional language. On one hand, every profession needs its jargon. The special language si...
Nov 10, 2011

On Federalism

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The RIC/AFT Agreement was developed some time ago, under the assumption that each Department operates more or less independently on all th...
Nov 4, 2011

A modest proposal

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            -By Johnathan Swift (as recorded by me) It is a pity that the outstanding certification policy just adopted by the RI Boa...
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Oct 27, 2011

Dear Regents…

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This is not an attempt to influence your vote, but an attempt to influence your deliberative process. You are asked to regulate a profess...
Oct 23, 2011

What’s next?

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It is hard for me to get excited at educational policy talks. A good scholarly paper makes me happy; a great story about teaching moves me...
Oct 14, 2011

The capacity for change

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We had an interesting discussion today at the TEIL meeting . Why is higher education so slow to change? What we realized is that the best si...
Oct 7, 2011

The human factor

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It is a gorgeous Fall Friday, one of those days that can put one’s senses in the state of hyper-alertness. Certain smells, shades, and views...
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Sep 30, 2011

Arne Duncan should check his facts

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Arne Duncan, the Secretary of Education, has just spoken to release his plan for teacher education reform . Once again the plan cites the ...
Sep 23, 2011

Do master’s degrees matter?

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In the last few months, I happened to have many exchanges on this particular question. Does it make sense to require teachers to contin...
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Sep 18, 2011

Mushroom picking in the Rehoboth forest

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An early autumn day can make air so transparent, you half-expect to see the past. I almost expect to see my father, mother, my brother and m...
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Sep 11, 2011

I know the future

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Like everyone else, I remember the morning of 9/11/01 very well. I was teaching two Foundations classes back to back; it was at BGSU in Ohio...
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Sep 1, 2011

Teacher Education Innovation Lab

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Over the summer, I started to think more and more about innovation (see this June blog ). One reason for that is that we failed to get ours...
Aug 26, 2011

Google, the Big Brother

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Here is what happened: Google deleted this blog, and then it was brought back from the dead within a few hours. After a half-billion set...
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Aug 19, 2011

The planting season and risk management

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Summer is the planting season for us, college administrators. We plan, anticipate, try to see what’s coming, prepare for what we don’t see c...
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Aug 12, 2011

How do we really do?

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As I am working on the State of the School talk for the faculty Fall retreat, some very simple questions come to my mind. The simple quest...
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Aug 5, 2011

The technology dilemma

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In the last twenty years college campuses went through an extraordinary revolution. Here is how RIC home page looked on November 13, 1996 ; ...
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Jul 29, 2011

All-volunteer workforce

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One business writer whose name I could not track down, noted that in creative industries, we deal with what is essentially an all-volunteer ...
Jul 23, 2011

Efficiency as ethics

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Inefficiency steals time from faculty, staff, and students. When we do anything routine, boring, or unnecessary, it takes our time away from...
Jul 15, 2011

THE PROGRAM GRILL

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Advisory board meetings are usually boring affairs. Some distinguished dudes and dames come to visit a college or a school such as ours, onc...
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Jul 8, 2011

The Contribution Revolution

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Scott Cook, the founder of Intuit, coined the term. Basically, it is how companies use volunteer contribution of their customers to improve ...
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Jul 3, 2011

The five goals, or how do we impress people

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The conventional wisdom in teacher preparation is that outcome-based education actually works. We measure student performance, analyze the d...
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