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Sherman Dorn
Heady, headwinds, or just headstrong?
Two education stories caught my eye this evening: the attempt by a Rhode Island superintendent to use state law on school interventions to trump collective bargaining and fire all teachers at one high school, and the trial balloon floated by a Utah state senator to end 12th grade in the state, or make it optional. […]
Books are not going to disappear from libraries
Student views of libraries are apparently all over the map when asked by the New York Times whether libraries need books anymore… but I think that’s always been the case. Libraries serve multiple constituencies, and if you had phrased the question differently in different eras and for different media — for example, “do libraries still […]
The message of opening access to AP courses: “Take chances, make mistakes, get messy!”
Someone reminded me that because I was crazy-busy in the fall, I didn’t comment on one local controversy a few months ago, so this is a catch-up post of sorts, in part justified by the February 4 story in USA Today and Leslie Postal’s story earlier this week in the Orlando Sentinel. The St. Pete Times […]
Shoveling day
Friends and relatives in the mid-Atlantic are spending this week shoveling loads of snow. I’ve been shoveling, too, if not snow. It’s time to deal with projects of various sorts, and I can’t complain too much about them: recruiting people for certain tasks; responding to a bureaucratic emergency or three; getting various bills paid; talking with colleagues […]
Additional thoughts on performance pay politics
An addendum to my entry earlier this morning: I think that there is a politically-robust rationale for performance-pay policies, but it’s not at the level of incentives usually used as the justification. The more plausible rationale for performance-pay policies is at the level of public-sector accountability: most people with jobs do not expect identical salaries or […]