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Sherman Dorn
Dorn reviews Ravitch
My review of Diane Ravitch’s new book is now up at the Education Review website. I should have finished it a few weeks ago, but the fragmentation of my time this spring has interrupted all sorts of usually-short-term projects, such as book reviews. If there is one benefit to the delay, it was my ability […]
Misinterpretations of Crist’s veto, and where to go next
I suspect that a number of observers will spin Charlie Crist’s veto of Senate Bill 6 to the point where the representation doesn’t come close to reality. By a quirk of timing, I was in Tallahassee today talking with legislators and staffers in the morning. In other words, I was at Ground Veto. Yep: I […]
Concern trolling about union democracy
Over at Jay Greene’s blog, Greg Forster points out that the majority of weighted votes in the last United Federation of Teachers election were not from current classroom teachers. This is corruption! is the implication. Er, no. It’s called following the legal bylaws of an organization. I haven’t heard Forster call for the reweighting of […]
How not to reform K-12 teacher tenure, and how to do it right
The blog management system here tells me that I started this entry on April 2, which tells you something about the intervening 12 days. We’re on the edge of a potential governor’s veto of Senate Bill 6 in Florida. As I’ve written before, SB 6 takes several issues and marches several bridges too far. Most […]
Brief note on iPad: bye, Flash!
The iPad is definitely awkward in some respects. I am currently typing this entry on a software keyboard, which is a bit clunky in large part because I am a touch typist. But this will definitely take off, and the primary result is that all of the educational sites built on Flash are inaccessible. So-called […]