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Sherman Dorn
Spring break
Classes are not meeting next week, many students are away from campus, and many faculty are as well, so it’s time for me to get stuff done. Certainly not as much as I’d like, but this is an opportunity to… well, maybe move from a molasses pace to a sludge pace on some projects. At […]
PolitiFact Erratum
The St. Pete Times‘s PolitiFact comes down today with the same ruling that I would on Governor Charlie Crist’s statement that the high school graduation rate in the cohort just graduated last year is the “highest it’s ever been.” They rate the claim as Mostly True, and I agree. And their reporting of my remarks […]
Larry Cuban has a blog
I have a bunch of reading to catch up on, more than I thought I did a few minutes ago: Larry Cuban has a blog! (Hat tip.)
More TFA in Miami-Dade: where’s the money?
The Miami Herald is reporting today that Teach for America is going to send 350 recruits to the Miami-Dade school system, supported by a $6 million grant from the James L. Knight Foundation (hat tip). Thanks to the federal stimulus, the Miami school system avoided laying off hundreds of teachers this year, but it’s not as […]
Every 24 minutes: why it’s time to vote on the health care bill
By Sherman Dorn on March 4, 2010
Two years ago, a friend I’ve known for more than 40 years who works at the Urban Institute updated the Institute of Medicine’s estimate of the annual excess deaths in the U.S. due to lack of insurance. In 2008, the updated estimate was 22,000 annual excess deaths. That’s an average of one preventable death about […]
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