Bob Hampel (CC) writes: I am trying to decelerate without making a screeching halt.  After nine years as Secretary/Treasurer of the national History of Education Society and two years as Director of the School of Education at the University of Delaware, I shed administrative work to return to the classroom. How teaching has changed since we were undergraduates! Laptops, clickers, Sakai sites, and other creative uses of technology enliven class. Yet in other ways it’s remarkably unchanged—lectures, reserve readings, hour tests, term papers, and other familiar rituals endure.  Outside of class, I hope to finish a book-in-progress on shortcuts to learning—the legitimate and spurious ways Americans have tried to make education (or at least the acquisition of credentials) both faster and easier.”