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Archive for April, 2006

Bush’s Secretary of Education Spellings fibs about “No Child Left Behind” stats

Saturday, April 29th, 2006

Speaking in Philadelphia at a NCLB summit on April 27,
Education Secretary Margaret Spellings claimed that No Child
Left Behind:
 “ … is helping us learn about what works
in our schools. And clearly, high standards and
accountability are working. Over the last 5 years, our 9-year-olds have made more progress in reading than in the previous 28 combined.”
This claim […]

An academic union with Cojones! The AAUP

Friday, April 28th, 2006

Today’s Chronicle of Higher Education (and other pubs no doubt) have an article on the President and Vice-President of the American Association of University Professors getting arrested for participating in a rally to back up the teaching assistants at New York University, who are on strike. It seems that not everyone who is anyone in […]

College professor salaries: raises so low you need a motion detector to discern them

Sunday, April 23rd, 2006

“Give the prof a raise!’ I would often see this remark or a variation of it on my student evaluations. Although they didn’t know my salary, in the present age of commerce, they were smart enough to guess that it wasn’t much compared to other professions. Well, now it seems, we have […]

College Freshman Composition : Only 2,200 pages of readings (for one course)

Thursday, April 20th, 2006

Below you will find the textbook requirements for Composition II, just one course in the Freshman sequence at Mississippi State University. You are supposed to believe the texts are well-chosen. After all, the official college website of this university states they have been selected by the English Department committee, and no other texts may be […]

Solution to decreasing trade book sales: MAKE them buy books.

Wednesday, April 19th, 2006

A press release by the American Association of Publishers announced trends in book selling last month. Trade paperback sales are off 3.5 percent. But not to worry. College textbook sales are up 3.6 percent despite the fact much of the material in college texts, especially English, is available free on the internet. […]

Connecticut Joins High Priced College Textbook Revolt

Monday, April 17th, 2006

The revolt has started!!!! Connecticut legislators and students are the latest groups to seek action against high textbook prices. A excerpt from an Associated Press report states the following:
Legislators this year are considering a bill to require publishers to inform professors of all books available on a particular subject, how long they will remain on […]