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Sherman Dorn
Four fading fads and four future fetishes, 2011 version
Belated happy New Year! In the spirit of renewal, here is some clearing out of old cobwebs and identification of likely new ones. Fading and (briefly) the reason why I have some hope on these fronts:
Dan Goldhaber’s odd reasoning
… much of the debate about using value-added for teacher evaluation is framed around the potential consequences for teachers rather than focusing on the known or potential consequences for students. Dan Goldhaber, The Standard of Evidence for Change, [guest column in] Rick Hess Straight Up. Goldhaber's a smart man, which is why this tangential argument puzzles […]
Rick Scott’s pension shell game
So Rick Scott says he's worried about Florida's pension fund. Folks: at first glance, this looks to be a distraction and not about the pension fund's underlying stability. The Florida Retirement System (FRS) is the largest in the country that has neither financial experts nor stakeholders sitting on the governance board, and the St. Pete Times […]
Humanities are behind the sciences in the promise and danger of post-publication review
So there's a small scandal because the University of Chicago Press has dished on open-access in the latest Chicago Manual of Style. Let me state clearly that the editors of the Chicago Manual of Style have it dead wrong in taking a position about open-access within a style guide. This is as smart and productive as […]
Major education stories in 2010: same as the last verse, plus six
The St. Pete Times' education blog has posted an entry summarizing major K-12 2010 education stories in Florida. I looked back at my summary from the end of 2009 and realized many of the major stories last year continued this year: the effects of the Great Recession, college financial-aid reform, Race to the Top, common core standards, […]