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Academic publishing runs on its own schedule

Posted in Being a scholar, Education policy, Rants, Research, Whining, Writing on July 4, 2010 | Comments Off

3 years ago my chair and I presented a paper at the premier conference in our field.  We took the comments, modified the paper and submitted it to a journal. <crickets chirping> A year later we heard that the journal had gone through a couple of “changes” and wanted to know if we wanted our [...]

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The dissertation topic….

Posted in Being a scholar, Dissertation, Research on June 16, 2010 | Comments Off

In December 2008 I wrote a post related to choosing a dissertation topic.  More specifically, I was looking at weighing the choice between choosing a topic about which you are passionate, or choosing one that is marketable.   A few months went by and I went down the marketable path.  Then I essentially took a [...]

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Networking as a graduate student

Posted in Being a scholar, Graduate school, Research on June 30, 2009 | 1 Comment »

Another grad student recently asked me about how to network with potential collaborators or committee members. These were people she had met either through course work, contacts, or conferences, and who she wanted to keep in contact with. At least two were people she was considering for her committee. I don’t think that networking as [...]

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When deadlines collide

Posted in Academic life, Education policy, Research, Writing on August 2, 2008 | Comments Off

I’m not dead yet (best heard in your head with a cockney accent) *grin* I have just had far too many immovable deadlines over the last few weeks, leading me to prioritize everything else over blogging. First I went to a history of ed conference in Newark that was awesome.  I practically got giggly when [...]

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Mind Mapping the Literature Review

Posted in Organization, Research on July 15, 2008 | Comments Off

GTD practitioners from David Allen on down sing the praises of mind mapping.  I’ve played with a bit but never gotten far.  In fact, the only time I ever used mindmapping was taking notes in a class taught by a post-modernist who rambled.  It was the only way to capture what he was saying and [...]

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Note taking – Part 2

Posted in Academic life, Organization, Reading, Research on July 5, 2008 | Comments Off

There were a couple of questions embedded in the comments that I wanted to address, then provide an update on how the system outlined is working.  Comments first. —From Gabriel: I would just make sure the extra work from the voice recognition part is not taking a toll on your work schedule.This is a really [...]

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Things they don’t tell you about quantitative research

Posted in Graduate school, Research on February 9, 2008 | Comments Off

More than 2/3rds of the non-writing time will be spent organizing, manipulating and massaging the data. We can’t even START to run our analysis until I spend the day (hopefully, weekend if need be) adding indicators, coding schools in one way and then applying that to our student level data set and otherwise wearing a [...]

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I’M A PUBLISHED AUTHOR!!!!

Posted in Academic life, Being a scholar, Education policy, Research on February 7, 2008 | Comments Off

Not just the “your paper has been accepted” kind.  Today’s mail included the paper copy of the journal in which my first published paper is actually printed.  (I’m 3rd author, of three, but still….)  This is kind of exciting!!!! (If you have any interest in school choice, email me at protoscholar [ at ] gmail [...]

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Historical newspaper articles crack me up

Posted in Being a scholar, History, Religion, Research on February 2, 2008 | Comments Off

I’m working on a proposal for a History of Education Conference, and in the process looking at a bunch of newspaper articles from the time period (1840-1842 NYC).  Journalistic styles were far less…uhm…strict. This particular article is talking about the public school commissioners election and basically talks about how all the big groups are putting [...]

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