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Sherman Dorn
Incentives for high school curriculum change
Leslie Maxwell writes a short and solid blog entry (and maybe a story later this week) about the politics of college admissions at San Diego State University. Specifically, SDSU’s move to eliminate a preferential admissions policy for high school students from San Diego has sparked a debate about perceived obligations to serve the local community. […]
Avoid the interrupting, comma
One more bit of advice to students this afternoon: If you wish to write forceful sentences, do not be a writer, who places a comma between the subject, and verb of a sentence, nor between parts of a compound verb or noun with, only two items, nor in the middle of, a prepositional phrase. (Remove the underlined […]
Do not use dictionary definitions in papers, unless you’re writing a paper about dictionaries
A word of advice to all students: in almost every subject, no matter what some teacher told you years ago, do not ever waste your time or words repeating a dictionary definition in an academic paper. Whatever Mr. Johnson’s and Mr. Webster’s successors wrote down is descriptive, not authoritative, and almost certainly it is useless […]
Issues in electronic grade reports
This morning’s article in USA Today on electronic grade reports is a reminder of a few important facts in evaluating technology use in schools: Ease of use (in jargon, “usability”) is critical to adoption. The systems that existed a few years ago were (and many still are) clunky and hard to use for both teachers […]
Election results — eh.
Andy Rotherham has a tempting interpretation of election results (and their effect on federal education politics), but I’m guessing he’s just suffering from living in Virginia this morning. Normally, it’s a very nice state, but I’ve seen some pretty-well-expected “darned my state is going down the tubes” messages from Va. acquaintances over the past 12 hours. […]