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Sherman Dorn
R!
A graduate student in biostats here is willing to tutor me in R (the open-source equivalent of S-Plus). Yes, faculty need to learn additional things, and sometimes that requires tutoring/coaching. For me, those realms include music, martial arts, and now new stats packages. And because my college wants guinea pigs for its exercise-training classes, I’m […]
Why you don’t always need a statewide charter authorizer
I don’t understand the obsession some people have with multiple charter-school authorizers. In Florida, it has always been the county school board since the charter-school law was first approved in the mid-90s. A few years ago in Florida, the legislature decided for some reason that not enough proposals were being approved and created (and spent […]
News item: Boy Scout suspended for being prepared
The suspension of Zacharie Christie is the latest tomfoolery in zero-sense discipline policies, because the tyke decided to bring his Boy Scout cutlery to school. Next: Fox News special on the Evil Spork. And this brings to mind a parody of medieval-fandom-society “weapons at the door” policies: A Bard was next whose goodly Voice has […]
“Timmy’s legislator let him do it!”
I don’t know what I’m more disgusted at, last week’s dismissal of official-misconduct charges against Florida Rep. Ray Sansom, or news that something very similar has been happening in Virginia with state Senator Tommy Norment and the College of William and Mary and state Delegate Phil Hamilton and Old Dominion University (IHE hat tip). Hamilton […]
One Blog Schoolhouse: the PDF
Should’ve been done a few months ago, but if you want to read the entire text of One Blog Schoolhouse, it’s now available as a nonprinting PDF. (I recommend that you click the “PDF” link in brackets, since I don’t know if scribd will convert a nonprinting PDF.) The entire thing. Absolutely free to read.