"If you link to an outlet...you've lost. You got scooped and all your colleagues are going to look down on you. Linking is a huge sign of weakness---you just can't do it."
One of the first lessons that I try to teach colleagues interested in using digital tools in their teaching and learning is that they’ve got to develop a high level of digital resilience because stumbling blocks are simply inevitable in any school-based technology project.
"Don't give up at the first'" [...]
I spend a lot of time with colleagues from traditional, face-to-face colleges and universities and often hear them dismiss schools that have been reported to have very low completion rates. It is obvious that these folks, despite working in higher education, do not understand the national problem we have with [...]
Dear Deborah,
The legislators who passed the Elementary and Secondary Act in 1965 repeatedly assured their colleagues and the American public that the federal government would never interfere with state and local control of schools. The purpose of the law was clear: To provide additional funding to the nation's neediest' [...]
Keith Fagnou, 38, a professor at the University of Ottawa who was considered a rising star in chemistry, died last week, apparently from H1N1 complications, The Globe and Mail reported. Colleagues were stunned by the death. Unlike many H1N1-related deaths, no underlying health conditions were noted in Fagnou's illness.
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My colleagues and I at the New Teacher Center submitted revised language during the public comment period to strengthen proposed Race to the Top (RttT) regulations. (8/28/2009: "RttT: Redefining Teacher Effectiveness".) I am delighted that most of our suggestions were adopted. Specifically, three changes [...] 
Associate professor Lionel McIntyre of Columbia’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation gave a female colleague a black eye at a bar on Sunday. According to the New York Post:
The professor, who is black, had been engaged in a fiery discussion about “white privilege” [...]
Lionel McIntyre, a professor in Columbia University's architecture college, was arrested Monday and charged with assault and harassment of Camille Davis, a theater production manager at Columbia's arts college, The New York Times reported. The alleged assault took place at a bar near campus and reportedly followed a heated [...]
When you lack tenure, and you think a colleague with tenure is making an unethical request, how do you protect your ethics and your job? C.K. Gunsalus considers a reader's dilemma.
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