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Sherman Dorn
Crabby comments from a higher-ed union activist
I’m in a slightly cranky mood from spending most of the last two days’ work hours on copyediting. This says little about the material I was copyediting and more about the nature of the task (and why I did not get a job to spend all of my time copyediting). So I’m ending the day […]
The Thursday’s-child research design
This morning’s St. Petersburg Times is reporting on a working paper on the Florida class size initiative by Harvard researcher Matthew Chingos. This paper is now available on the PEPG website, and the Times asked me to read it and comment, and there are a few things I can say: It’s stronger technically than a […]
An academic’s brief iPad review comment
I’m going to skip all the technical stuff you can read in other reviews of the device, so here’s the bottom line: the iPad is useful for anyone who needs to read a lot of PDFs without significant effort, comment on some of them, and otherwise carry around significant electronic documents. For a faculty member, […]
Veritas? Caveat!
There’s a new paper by Harvard researchers Matthew Chingos and Martin West on what ex-Florida teachers make, and relationships between post-teaching income and during-teaching value-added measures that I’m sure some will tout as proof that SB 6 and any like performance-pay plans are desperately needed. Err, no. Fortunately, Chingos and West do not make that […]