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Sherman Dorn
More on so-called “side deals”
Andy Rotherham has responded to my blog entry early this morning. Let me skip for now the question of why he was the sole person quoted in the article and address the local MOUs in Florida on Race to the Top. Rotherham wrote in part, “If these agreements have no bearing on the state’s application […]
Correcting the facts on so-called RTTT “side deals”
In Wednesday’s paper, St. Petersburg Times reporter Ron Matus relied on the sloppy language “some say” to spin a mountain out of a molehill about county-specific MOUs between school boards and local FEA affiliates. In the article as well as two blog entries Wednesday and Thursday, Matus stated that there were a number of counties […]
Quips on Race to the Top and Common Standards
From late morning until a few minutes ago, I’ve spent the day under a cloud of variously-intensive headache pain. I’m free of it but also exhausted, so in the zeitgeist of evidence-free punditry about RTTT and Common Standards, here are some thoughts: If my memory and reading are correct, none of the national press outside […]
The value of college II
An offhand reference I made last week to Lisa Delpit is nagging at me this evening. It’s the part of Other People’s Children (1995) where she talks about the existence of codes of power (what others would call tacit knowledge) and how one of the jobs of good schools should be to lay those bare, […]
Evil Academic Overlords for Peer-Review Reform
As I’ve started copyediting the last batch of accepted manuscripts for Education Policy Analysis Archives (EPAA) from my editorial tenure, I’ve been thinking of John Willinsky’s and Kathleen Fitzpatrick’s comments about academic publishing, open access, the peer review process, and academic credentialing in general. In his incrementalist “let’s push any move towards more open access” […]