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Sherman Dorn
Power outage
Some things you just have to laugh at. I charged out of the house this morning to get the car’s oil changed and head to my office to chug through teaching and other work stuff. In the last five hours, I’ve spent half of the time waiting for the car (and trying not to grit […]
Child murder, Chicago style
Chicago teacher Deborah Lynch pointed out in a Sun-Times opinion piece yesterday that one of the Chicago schools’ “turnaround targets” this fall has been Fenger High School, near the gang fight that led to Derrion Albert’s death and the school where she implies many of the combatants attend. (Hat tip/alternative source.) I am not saying […]
Pausing to find my bearings
It’s been one heck of a month. As I noted a few weeks ago, I had a death in the family at the beginning of September, but for some reason I did not mention in that entry that my mother-in-law was the family member who had died. Because my wife is Peggy’s executor, we’ve had […]
Whitmire and Rotherham fall prey to faux-trend fallacy
If I were a union activist without an historical perspective, I’d say ouch with Richard Whitmire and Andy Rotherham’s WSJ opinion piece proclaiming a trend in news reporting on education and teachers unions. Or, to put it another way, there’s an op-ed in Rupert Murdoch’s new plaything proclaiming that a dying industry is giving birth […]
The Child has arrived!
This week I received my contributor’s copy of The Child: An Encyclopedic Companion. I have a single entry (on dropouts), and it’s clear there’s lots of good stuff in it on a range of topics, including a substantial section with historical and social-science perspectives on families. I think the cost is about on par for […]