No, not really: but the interim final rule published the other day by the Department of Homeland Security in the Federal Register is interesting nevertheless. What the interim final rule does is change some of the regulations affecting international students here in the U.S. on F-1 student visas (there are about 600,000 or so international [...]
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I thought I’d pass along the following Call for Papers, for the 52nd Annual Conference of the Comparative and International Education Society (CIES). It will be held from March 17 - 21, 2008 at the Teachers College campus in New York City and the conference theme is “Gaining Educational Equity Around the World.”
OK, at the [...]
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The other day I picked up the September 2007 edition of Harper’s while waiting with a friend to see ‘Superbad,’ and noticed that it contains the latest article by Peter Schrag, “Schoolhouse Crock: Fifty years of blaming America’s educational system for our stupidity.” More on the film Superbad later. For now, a few thoughts on [...]
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Posted in Academia, Conferences, Education, HIV/AIDS, Institutional theory, International and Comparative Education, Organizations, Science and Technology, Social Theory, Sociology, Systems Theory on August 15, 2007 | 1 Comment »
I went to a number of sessions over the last two days of the conference, but I’ll only mention a few.
1. The very last session I attended at the conference was on Cultural Sociology and Disciplinary Change, chaired by a very droll and funny Jeffrey Alexander presiding over a standing-room only crowd who came [...]
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Lesson of the day: don’t put a banana in your bookbag. “I’ll eat it later,” I thought, congratulating myself on the foresight of bringing a little snack to keep me going through the day’s sessions. Well, I got home a couple of hours ago and saw the gruesome murder victim when I decided to plan [...]
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