I should not be writing this! I absolutely have better things to do by almost any measure. Yet I have been asked to clarify which of my...

Earlier I discussed a reporter who asked for abut a sound-bite about “religion” in the south— and how this led to “True and Useful...

This is day 40 or more (depending on how one counts) of a major strike in British universities, which has been nearly ignored by the...

This essay is lightly revised from a talk I gave in 2009 on the occasion of my teacher, David Noble, retiring from the University of...

I hope I was clear in my last post, and in any case it bears repeating, that the logic of “assessment” is not tied narrowly to “student...