Tag Archives: social justice

semester roundup, fall 2010

Well, things sure have been busy the past cou­ple of months. I’ve got­ten off to a solid start in my new PhD pro­gram. Here’s a roundup of this semester’s activ­i­ties, for pos­ter­ity and just in case any­one is inter­ested (hello, fel­low­ship com­mit­tee!): Eco­nom­ics of Edu­ca­tion: This was a fan­tas­tic class. We learned about human cap­i­tal

Teachers College & social justice

Recently, Adam Kissel of FIRE (who I recently started fol­low­ing on Twit­ter) asked me: “What do you think about Teach­ers College’s idea that one isn’t qual­i­fied to be a teacher with­out believ­ing in social jus­tice?” I had pre­vi­ously seen FIRE’s roundup on free speech issues with TC, I think before I had even accepted my