by David Safier The Star and the Republic both gave lots of ink to a Goldwater Institute report that came out today. The report says universities are top-heavy administratively. Anyone see a problem here? I do. First, this research paper came out today, so no one outside G.I. has had a chance to review it. … Read more
by David Safier At Thursday's Ed Supe debate in Tucson, the candidates were asked their opinion of private school tuition tax credits. John Huppenthal got a little defensive, and, unless he can back up this figure, ventured way, way off into Fantasy Land — or at best, into cleverly worded Deception Land. Huppenthal was making … Read more
by David Safier An op ed in Sunday's Republic questions the value of the Teach for America program and the success of its teachers. (Full disclosure: I'm friends with one of the authors, Carole Edelsky, a retired ASU prof, but I didn't know about the op ed until I saw it this morning.) According to … Read more
by David Safier In the comments section of a post about Huppenthal's hagiographic misrepresentation of Ben Franklin (translation: Huppenthal painted a rosier-than-deserved portrait of Ben and the slavery issue), Tom Prezelski asked a tangential but interesting question: [H]as anybody publically asked Margaret Garcia Dugan why she has stopped using the name "Garcia?" All through the … Read more
by David Safier I went to the Ed Supe forum at Rincon High Thursday, audio recorder in hand. All the candidates did reasonably well by themselves. By that I mean, I doubt if many people in the audience changed their vote based on a stellar performance by one candidate or a serious mistake by another. … Read more