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Sherman Dorn
The curious case of Larry Summers
Okay, maybe I can’t let well enough alone on economics. About a decade from now, someone will have both the material and distance to write a fabulous biography of Larry Summers. On one level, he is a brilliant economist. At another level, he has been a total MF, and at Harvard the financial games and […]
An historian reads the business section (with apologies to John Allen Paulos)
I do not generally comment on economic matters, but I think historians of education can say something productive about the current myths plodding around the internet about the stimulus and the non-bank sector of the banking industry. First, some of the current discourse: Sean Snaith, an economist at the University of Central Florida, is unimpressed […]
New grading routine attempt… and why Blackboard 8 continues to be horrible
I need to crack down on myself today and spend all of it grading and doing other teaching-related tasks. Now that I have figured out an awful, awkward, arguably arbitrary workaround for an incredibly stupid usability problem with the Blackboard 8 Grade Center,* I know how students can access feedback I upload and can be […]
Don’t exercise: you’ll destroy the world
If you had asked me this morning what I expected from the latest round of NAEP math scores and what was going on in DCPS, I would have told you to expect NAEP math scores to increase at a snail’s pace with loads of arguments about what that meant, that Michelle Rhee seemed to have […]
The comparability fly in the Ouchi/principal-autonomy ointment
Yesterday from a “stakeholders” meeting (I think at the USDOE), Charlie Barone tweets, Richard Laine of Wallace Foundation: forthcoming Rand study will show [principal] autonomy in hiring a key factor in student achievement. I’ve been expecting something like this for a while, not because I’m connected to a RAND insider (I’m not) but because this […]