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Sherman Dorn
Grading the “Grades” reports
I’m back from Toronto today–had a great time talking with Canadian faculty, had my head chewed off in a thoroughly polite, Canadian way for one bone-headed error I made in discussion, survived subzero temperatures for a few mornings, and completely failed to enter the Hockey Hall of Fame building–and back in Florida the temperatures are a bit […]
Why the “college hunt” genre is unrepresentative, and the shame of the College Board Profile
This morning’s blog entry by Valerie Strauss is typical of the genre: a perspective on what it’s like to apply to a number of selective colleges and universities and hunt for financial aid. And it’s all wrong, both from a policy perspective and (I’d argue) even a hypercompetitive parents’ perspective. Policy perspective: the colleges most […]
Horizon 2010 report mostly wrong
At least this year’s EDUCAUSE Horizon report on emerging IT doesn’t predict the tremendous growth of Second Life. But it has plenty of misjudgments in what it predicts will be Big Higher-Ed IT in the near and medium term. Below are my quick judgments of what Horizon 2010 thinks will be big: Semi-correct: the impact […]
Florida legislative session education preview
Former Miami Herald reporter and current free-lancer Gary Fineout has a solid legislative session preview on education policy in this morning’s Sarasota Herald-Tribune (hat tip). I may disagree with his predictions on the margins, but on the whole I think he’s on the money in identifying the obvious issues. Fineout was starting his analysis from […]
Ebook readers and markets
At the beginning of the month, one of The Big Things at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas was the proliferation of electronic readers (or ebook readers), and as someone who bought a Sony ebook reader a few years ago for work purposes, I have a few thoughts that are different from the standard […]