So there’s this ongoing problem we try to tackle in computer science education where women and minorities are under-represented in the field.
I was over at the Google Labs web site today, looking for some awesome new something or other. Maybe I’ve just gotten overly sensitized to this sort of thing, but the homogeneity in the [...]
Archive for the ‘Politics’ Category
30 Sep
This Is Not Helping
16 Dec
Most Likely to Succeed
This is just plain good writing, of the pleasure-to-read variety: Malcolm Gladwell absolutely nails it in his New Yorker article Most Likely to Succeed. For anyone wanting to understand the shape of the problem American public education has with finding good teachers (beyond the fact that we’re underpaid) this is a great introduction. [...]
17 Sep
An Educational CA?
The basic idea: A government or nonprofit agency Certificate Authority, whose certificate ships with major browsers, with the sole mission of signing free or very-low-cost SSL certificates for servers at public educational institutions.
The reason it hasn’t happened: Existing private Certificate Authorities do not want to give up the business they get from public schools and [...]
1 May
Pink Slip Rescinded
I didn’t write about this when it happened but I, along with 500ish other people, got the paperwork in March telling me that my services would not be required by SFUSD next year.
Yesterday I got the happy letter telling me to ignore the previous letters.
Personal outcome for the moment notwithstanding, this is a ridiculous situation. [...]
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