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Sherman Dorn
Student surveys, the good and bad
Having finished the grading process for my undergraduate students, I have some doctoral students to attend to and a few short writing assignments as well this week. So while I am itching to read the Gates Foundation-funded, Tom Kane-directed report on value-added measures and surveys of student-observed teacher behavior, I haven't yet had an opportunity. […]
Genshaft’s decade at USF
This weekend's Tampa Tribune profile of Judy Genshaft follows a similar story in July by Rick Danielson in the St. Petersburg Times. There was one comment attributed to me by the Tribune's Lindsay Peterson that I think could be read in a way that is not consistent with what our conversation was about. Since the […]
Waiting for an iPad “correction” to start a small war
Just saying that I wouldn't be surprised if an iPad "correction" is the spark for a diplomatic incident some day. Or at least it would make for a great backstory an author never quite explains, like the Helvetic War David Brin never quite explains in Earth. "I was one of the hostages in the Bezerkistan […]
It’s surplus education, stupid
In 1970 America spent about $228 billion in today's dollars on public schools. In 2007 that figure was $583 billion. True, some of the increase can be traced back to growing enrollments, better programs, and improved services for special-education and other students, but much of the increase is just a lot of spending without a […]
Comment policy
By Sherman Dorn on December 11, 2010
I've been impressed by the comment policy at Paul Krugman's blog, so I'm going to borrow it here, with a few tweaks: No spam No comments irrelevant to the post or ongoing comment discussion No ad hominem or obscenities First time you comment, it's held until I can approve it. No comments that stretch beyond […]
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