Prof. Obama and Lerone Bennett, Jr.,
Professor Obama
by renior
Tue Jul 29, 2008 at 07:59:45 PM PDT
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/7/29/223142/218/239/559129
Excerpt:
The New York Times is running a series on Professor Obama.
http://www.nytimes.com/...
The main article looks at the years he was a professor at the University of Chicago Law School.
And
We’re posting the documents here, and inviting you to offer your insights. Since the exam questions in particular involve hard-to-parse issues of constitutional law, we have asked four legal experts, of diverse ideological backgrounds, to lead our inquiry. John Eastman, Randy Barnett, Pamela S. Karlan and Akhil Reed Amar have already looked through the documents, at our request, and on Wednesday we will post their assessments here.
When Mr. Bennett was on a book tour with his book about Abraham Lincoln, “Forced Into Glory” he told the audience how unusual it was to have a book tour accompanied by three scholars in your field. Yet, that is what he had-three scholars - if memory serves me correctly. He noted books or thesis on Lincoln had become a “cottage industry” and I think I correctly concluded the three Lincoln scholars were not accompanying him to authenticate his thesis but to protect their industry.
So it was Mr. Bennett, an African American closely associated with Ebony magazine, had to conduct a book review to include the input (interruptions?) of his chaperons. I recall one of them saying they had not thought about an incident from that particular angle and a lady from the audience was given a copy of his book due to the fact she could not afford one to bring to the book review but wanted to be there just the same.
What the NYT is doing, in my suspicious opinion, is an unusual thing to do. I can not see the feat having a positive ending adventure with the pressures bought upon the critics and all from their individual peers of Constitutional Law professors.
In any case, if they are indeed in a position to criticize the works of Sen. Obama and they are also teachers, they know that when you construct test for your students through the years, one size does not fit all. They should know you embrace the psyche of your whole when constructing a test. You anticipate certain question and know in what area of the room you have to position yourself for different parts of the test. You know the days you were off and when some of the sportsman missed class with permission. Who just had a baby and who just got married.
The bookstore did not have the books for your class at the beginning of the class. Recent rulings of the Supreme Court you did not get to and the ones you did. Who usually turns in their papers late but were good papers. You know whose parent you had to call and who had concerns regarding their tuition money. Who may be flunking out, what student(s) was mentioned at the faculty meeting. You know which areas of the book and chapters you had to spend a little more time on and which ones the class appeared to have a good grasp of and which areas did not go too well and not in your wildest imagination while constructing a test would thoughts enter your mind that years later the NYT, the Old Grey Lady, would ask a group of “experts” to evaluate your test from a given class and from a given year especially when they can not track the doctoral dissertation from Sec. Allan Greenspan for economist of the world to take a curious look-see. You may have promptly gone into the dean’s office and resigned; effective immediately.
As always,
BB
P.S. They don’t call us Teachers and Professors for nothing. (Smile)
P.P.S. Of course the NYT is going to have a book list accompanied by each of the critic’s analysis and their notable accomplishments. Let’s do this thang right! BTW, I did buy the book and read it. VERY enlightening! It was from his book I got the - (information) - technique I use sometimes. That was the first time I had seen it used.
documents, at our request, and on Wednesday we will post their assessments here.
P.P.S. Could a student’s test paper turned in to his teacher be akin to putting a prayer in the Wailing Wall in Israel?
by renior
Tue Jul 29, 2008 at 07:59:45 PM PDT
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/7/29/223142/218/239/559129
Excerpt:
The New York Times is running a series on Professor Obama.
http://www.nytimes.com/...
The main article looks at the years he was a professor at the University of Chicago Law School.
And
We’re posting the documents here, and inviting you to offer your insights. Since the exam questions in particular involve hard-to-parse issues of constitutional law, we have asked four legal experts, of diverse ideological backgrounds, to lead our inquiry. John Eastman, Randy Barnett, Pamela S. Karlan and Akhil Reed Amar have already looked through the documents, at our request, and on Wednesday we will post their assessments here.
When Mr. Bennett was on a book tour with his book about Abraham Lincoln, “Forced Into Glory” he told the audience how unusual it was to have a book tour accompanied by three scholars in your field. Yet, that is what he had-three scholars - if memory serves me correctly. He noted books or thesis on Lincoln had become a “cottage industry” and I think I correctly concluded the three Lincoln scholars were not accompanying him to authenticate his thesis but to protect their industry.
So it was Mr. Bennett, an African American closely associated with Ebony magazine, had to conduct a book review to include the input (interruptions?) of his chaperons. I recall one of them saying they had not thought about an incident from that particular angle and a lady from the audience was given a copy of his book due to the fact she could not afford one to bring to the book review but wanted to be there just the same.
What the NYT is doing, in my suspicious opinion, is an unusual thing to do. I can not see the feat having a positive ending adventure with the pressures bought upon the critics and all from their individual peers of Constitutional Law professors.
In any case, if they are indeed in a position to criticize the works of Sen. Obama and they are also teachers, they know that when you construct test for your students through the years, one size does not fit all. They should know you embrace the psyche of your whole when constructing a test. You anticipate certain question and know in what area of the room you have to position yourself for different parts of the test. You know the days you were off and when some of the sportsman missed class with permission. Who just had a baby and who just got married.
The bookstore did not have the books for your class at the beginning of the class. Recent rulings of the Supreme Court you did not get to and the ones you did. Who usually turns in their papers late but were good papers. You know whose parent you had to call and who had concerns regarding their tuition money. Who may be flunking out, what student(s) was mentioned at the faculty meeting. You know which areas of the book and chapters you had to spend a little more time on and which ones the class appeared to have a good grasp of and which areas did not go too well and not in your wildest imagination while constructing a test would thoughts enter your mind that years later the NYT, the Old Grey Lady, would ask a group of “experts” to evaluate your test from a given class and from a given year especially when they can not track the doctoral dissertation from Sec. Allan Greenspan for economist of the world to take a curious look-see. You may have promptly gone into the dean’s office and resigned; effective immediately.
As always,
BB
P.S. They don’t call us Teachers and Professors for nothing. (Smile)
P.P.S. Of course the NYT is going to have a book list accompanied by each of the critic’s analysis and their notable accomplishments. Let’s do this thang right! BTW, I did buy the book and read it. VERY enlightening! It was from his book I got the - (information) - technique I use sometimes. That was the first time I had seen it used.
documents, at our request, and on Wednesday we will post their assessments here.
P.P.S. Could a student’s test paper turned in to his teacher be akin to putting a prayer in the Wailing Wall in Israel?
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