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Sherman Dorn
Spot temperature:Climate::Test score:____________
I fully expect that within a week (if not yet already) some climate-change skeptic will use the cold wave currently freezing much of the country as an argument that climate changing really isn’t happening. And every time there’s a vicious cold snap in winter or a cooler-than-average summer we get the argument. And some reporter […]
And Bill Brass would run through the streets of Edinburgh shouting “Eureqa!”
If you are a social scientist and haven’t checked out Eureqa, you should spend a few hours playing with it in the next few months, because it’s entirely different from your prior experiences with statistical software. Featured in a Wired article last month, Download Your Own Robot Scientist, Eureqa is not a scientist but a […]
Wannabe education reformers in the U.S. need to use English
Confession: I do not have a professional editor review these blog entries before they become publicly available. As a result, there is the odd grammatical error that I notice only after publication. And yet, I do not abuse the English language deliberately. In contrast, one of the least attractive stylistic tendencies of wannabe reformers, reformists, […]
Passages
For me, 2009 was full of transitions, from the private to the international. On the private side (or that affecting me directly), in addition to my mother-in-law’s death, I’m wrapping things up (or winding them down) at the end of my five-year term as Education Policy Analysis Archives editor, and my daughter has her driver’s license […]
One more almost unreadable student paper for 2009…
By Sherman Dorn on December 31, 2009
After trying to decipher Chuck’s handwriting with all those scribbles and crossouts, I will never, ever complain about my own students again.
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