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Sherman Dorn
Why the Teacher Incentive Fund and Race to the Top are long-term dead ends for merit-pay advocates
The apparent push in the proposed 2011 Obama budget for an enlarged Teacher Incentive Fund on the heels of Race to the Top makes me think that merit-pay/performance-pay advocates may be spreading their political capital very thin on teacher evaluation. Most advocates of paying teachers in part based on test scores are also advocates of […]
Peer reviewing, redux and redux
I regularly attempt some form of student peer review process for short writing assignments and am regularly frustrated with the inadequacy of the process–inevitably someone falls down on the job either in terms of participating in peer review or submitting draft work or providing advice that is counterproductive… and leaves an awkward gap and a […]
College visits: some good, bad, and ugly ideas
Valerie Strauss’s blog entry yesterday discusses the standard advice for high school students’ visiting colleges and then provides links to the College Board and ACT college-visiting pages (which are surprisingly slim). Again, Strauss is speaking directly to parents — “Be sure to contact the school in advance… If you child can sit in…” — which […]
Another stupid article on “the dating scene” in college
Some of the clues that the latest article on the “dating scence” in colleges with 60% female enrollment was written by a reporter with an axe to grind and a preset angle at which to grind: The featured photograph from a university with 60% female enrollment (a) is of college seniors (or I hope they’re seniors) […]
Sloppy journo skewered; readers await fix
Reporting is a hard job. These days, reporters are being asked to cover more subjects in less time with an even smaller news hole for newspapers that are losing money, laying off colleagues, and may be out of business within a matter of months. Even in good times, reporters knew that errors were going to […]