Downeast Schoolhouse » expectations http://downeastschoolhouse.com Education, bread, music, orneriness. In monstrous slabs. Irony in wee drams. Wed, 21 Dec 2011 15:35:10 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Hope, Change, Thrills, Expectations http://downeastschoolhouse.com/2009/01/hope-change-thrills-expectations/ http://downeastschoolhouse.com/2009/01/hope-change-thrills-expectations/#comments Fri, 23 Jan 2009 11:00:05 +0000 admin http://downeastschoolhouse.com/?p=1352 In Washington, there’s a new administration, an old bureaucracy, and pending legislation. There’s electricity in the air and, for some people, a thrill going up the leg.

The former Secretary of Education offers some advice to the new guy in A Word to My Successor (WP, 1/13).

It’s a little thick, if you ask me:

[...]]]> http://downeastschoolhouse.com/2009/01/hope-change-thrills-expectations/feed/ 0 “No One Rises to Low Expectations” http://downeastschoolhouse.com/2008/11/no-one-rises-to-low-expectations/ http://downeastschoolhouse.com/2008/11/no-one-rises-to-low-expectations/#comments Wed, 19 Nov 2008 12:49:50 +0000 admin http://downeastschoolhouse.com/?p=1009 In a forthcoming issue of The Chronicle of Higher Education (subscription only, unfortunately), the principal news publication for higher education, Kevin Carey draws attention to a study from CCSSE (Community College Survey of Student Engagement) which, at first look, might appear counterintuitive.

Here’s the gist of it:

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