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One Thing I Learned By Editing Sociology of Education
"Most papers simply lacked a soul—a compelling and well-articulated reason to exist. The world (including the world of education) faces an extraordinary number of problems, challenges, dilemmas, and even mysteries. Yet most papers failed to make a good case for why they were necessary. Many analyses were not well motivated or informed by existing theory, evidence, or debates. Many authors took for granted that readers would see the importance of their chosen topic, and failed to connect their work to related issues, ideas, or discussions. Over and over again, I kept asking myself (and reviewers also often asked): So what?"
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"I am [...] already sick of heartless men playing loveless games; of the way, for men who have never been at risk of attack, who have no reason to fear the world, the violence on this planet can be simply another playground to have fun in. [...] You can write a film that requires the dead bodies of women to be arranged in comical poses, as an arch metaphor for your own tyranny — or you can write something else. You choose."
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Pilot for Climax, SK: in which a spy hides from assassins
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On the relationship between sound and taste
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“Waste of time, low hanging fruit, soul sucking abyss, or strategic investment”?
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"“Consciousness-raising has one terrible result. It makes you more conscious,” wrote the critic Ellen Willis, who, after deepening her involvement in the women’s movement of the ‘60s, suddenly found it hard to look at random men in the street. To be a conscious woman is to invite queasy paradoxes into one’s world: It is to love singular men and resent the group; to accept that the category of woman is both constructed and, for now, politically necessary; to disavow any universal definition of womanhood while knowing of the lambent desire for such a definition. Feminists in the past have succumbed to the self-pity and sentimentality that warp a life wagered amid contradictions. It makes sense that we wish to leapfrog over these, into the sure world of structure and the eventual victory it promises. But right now, we still have the lives that we have. And there can be such thing as a life lived emotionally and rigorously, a feminism made with both toughness — and feeling."
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"We find that half of all report downloads are used for non-academic purposes, including to improve the provision of services by medical professionals, local and regional planners, public health workers, and veterans’ advocates, to name just a few of the 64 total categories of report use. Heavy use is made of Academies reports on STEM education and how people learn by teachers, school administrators and teachers’ coaches. Other notable reports with their prominent users included Dying in America (chaplains), Nutrient Requirements for Beef Cattle (farmers), and Best Care at Lower Costs (clinicians and hospital administrators)."
"Librarians and open access advocates have long presupposed that open access to high-quality scientific knowledge could and should be viewed as a public good. Our empirical research suggests that the initial utopian aspirations regarding the public use and societal impact of OA may indeed rest on sound footing."
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