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Sherman Dorn
Questions while procrastinating while grading
The Friday-at-the-end-of-finals-week edition… Did President Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize speech as a wartime president demonstrate that irony is not dead, or what? Is the last question rhetorical, or what? Is Hannukah a holiday that celebrates energy efficiency, oil wars, or insurgencies? Why do no schools have a food as a mascot (e.g., the Souffles)? (My […]
Online grandiosity failed, so get back to work
So U21 Global looks like it’s failing, after the dumping of U of I Global and the morphing of Western Governors from the “we’re going to conquer the world through online enrollments” stage into the “we’ll settle for 10,000 students based on a Netflix model of tuition with half of our students in teacher ed” […]
“The gap is gone”
If Aaron Pallas’s report is correct, and Roland Fryer did tell Anderson Cooper bluntly in reference to the Harlem Children’s Zone and Promise Academy, “The gap is gone,” Fryer committed an understandable but all too common sin of education reformers across the centuries: overpromising. I’ve been in the room as one or more program directors […]
Are central Florida schools flouting Florida law limiting test-prep?
I have heard from teachers and students in three area districts (Hillsborough, Pinellas, and Hernando counties) that secondary teachers in some subjects are being ordered to spend the first 10 minutes of class suspending the curriculum and teaching material from another class. In the case of two counties (Pinellas and Hernando), I have heard stories […]
Great day in physics!
Last Tuesday was the 150th anniversary of the publication of The Origin of Species, and today it’s the turn for physics. Yeah, I know: you have already probably heard about the record collision at the Large Hadron Collider announced this morning. But that’s not what I’m talking about. It’s my oldest nephew’s 25th birthday, and […]