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Sherman Dorn
Erik Hanushek, meet the tort of “false light”
In the New York Daily News today, Stanford education professor Erik Hanushek argues that UFT [is] wrong to fight Joel Klein's attempt to release teacher data. Hanushek makes three arguments here: Value-added methods are valuable even if imperfect The public has a right to know about teacher effectiveness Erik Hanushek personally does not want test score […]
Professor Ramanathan, please meet my relative
G.V. Ramanathan asks, How much math do we really need? in the weekend Washington Post. Jeff Solochek, a reporter for the St. Petersburg Times who pointed out the Ramanathan op-ed locally, claims that he hasn't used calculus in his job on the education beat. This comes up every few years in an op-ed column, so this is a repeat lesson, except […]
Testosterone poisoning link found between NYC Education Department and tabloids?
Remember the furor over the Los Angeles Times's release of point estimates of value-added measures they had cooked up from test scores? A number of people raked the Times over the coals for violating journalistic ethics, and these included many who think it's either acceptable or necessary to include student outcome data in teacher and […]
What the heck is going on with Florida State College at Jacksonville?
Relatively unnoticed in the national press has been a fairly vicious in-state back-and-forth between the leadership of Florida State College at Jacksonville and for-profit Keiser University. Here are some of the relevant stories: Emails spice up lawsuit over private colleges (Oct. 5) Short-seller Steve Eisman is in trouble with a for-profit university over this email […]
Juan Williams: when people give themselves permission to act badly
By Sherman Dorn on October 24, 2010
The wonderful Muslims Wearing Things tumblr blog has the right response to Juan Williams's stupid comment, But when I get on the plane, I got to tell you, if I see people who are in Muslim garb and I think, you know, they are identifying themselves first and foremost as Muslims, I get worried. I […]
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