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Sherman Dorn
Deviance credits and paying attention to the work of work
Some other union members (from K-12 locals) have criticized my last post which points to the excessive absences of Central Falls high school teachers as something that undermines the efforts of K-12 and other unions outside Central Falls defending their jobs when they were scapegoated last winter. The latest Providence Journal article (from yesterday, which […]
Certain Central Falls teachers owe their colleagues a giant apology
After national affiliates and union activists around the country fought to get Central Falls High School teachers their jobs back last winter, it does not help when news breaks of excessive teacher absences by any measure. I'm feeling right now like the defense attorney whose client leaves the courthouse to go rob a bank. Sometimes […]
Welcome to Valerie Strauss readers!
If you came here after reading the Q&A Valerie Strauss posted today, thank you! Stick around, subscribe to the RSS feed, and keep reading. I don't bite, and I try to be entertaining part of the time.
Domesday version 2010
Congratulations to all 308,745,538 of us! I'd link to the Census Bureau website, but I think it's crashed under a huge weight of traffic. Update: The Census Bureau website has evidently recovered.
Florida achievement gaps, the data
The following is more of a useful reference for me than anything else, but since I've been asked a few times about the "everyone else behave like Florida" argument floating out there, here is (in Excel format) Florida NAEP scale score data through 2010, with selected demographic groups. Some caveats: you'll see different starting dates because […]