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Sherman Dorn
Why unions need competent administrators on the other side
Dean Dad neatly explains why Southwestern College’s leaders aren’t even competent Machiavellian administrators. While I’ve occasionally heard from people that the best union recruiting tool is a horrid manager, life is more complicated. Yes, there are threshold effects of managerial incompetence and cruelty on organizing campaigns, but for an already-recognized union with plenty of duties, […]
Ted Sizer’s push
It had instant credibility to the vast majority of readers who all probably shifted uncomfortably while reading certain passages, recognizing themselves. And the terms that came out of that project… Classroom treaties.Tell me if you don’t remember an entire class wheedling a teacher or two to change an assignment, to lower expectations a smidgen, and […]
Duncan’s talk at Teachers College: first impressions
Some quick impressions of the text of Arne Duncan’s speech at Teachers College today: Historical quibble: Duncan said he was speaking at a place where “giants like John Dewey played such a formative role.” No, he didn’t, or at least not at Teachers College. When Dewey moved from Chicago to Columbia, he moved from education to philosophy, […]
A gadfly remembered: Jerry Bracey
An e-mail from Kevin Welner yesterday announced Jerry Bracey’s death Monday night. I only met him a handful of times in the past 20 years of his persistent, indefatigable efforts to poke holes in every public report or news story he saw as an effort to demonize public schooling. His Huffington Post column from September […]
In no language either is there the phrase “as quiet as an airport”
By Sherman Dorn on October 25, 2009
Heard on the Philadelphia International Airport intercom. Or at least the small bits I could “understand”… THIS IS A BOARDING ANNOUNCEMENT FOR PASSENGER GRISENSD PLEASE GO TO TRUMP ATE FERRITINOUS PAGING WE NEED YOU AT GATE WYNNEWOOD NARBUHTH ARDMORE HAVERFORD BRYN MAWR ROSEMONTCODE PHILLIES WAITING RAIN DELAY HAS WITHDRAWN FROM DANCING WITH THESTARS SEEN ELOPING IN NEXT MONTH’S […]
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