Working in an international office…now and then

Before I started my doctoral studies, I was an international advisor for many years, working at a number of different schools. As an international advisor I, unsurprisingly, counseled international students and scholars on immigration regulations, school policy, and a variety of other matters. I spent much of these past two weeks doing this work again, [...]

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What is in a Rim? On education and the ‘Pacific Rim’

I’m in the midst of scrambling to finish a paper on the concept of education and the Pacific Rim: a topic on which there’s been very little written, with the notable exception of a few essays by Robert Cowen, emeritus professor of the Institute of Education at the University of London (see for example this [...]

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What do the numbers tell us?

A thoughtful post over at Shadow of a Doubt and the recent news about the significant rise in New York State and especially New York City math test scores returned me to a favorite theme among us students of education policy: what do numbers really tell us about how well we are doing in the [...]

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