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Sherman Dorn
“Lake Wobegon” Klein
From pp. 68-69 of Accountability Frankenstein: The complexity of an accountability system can also help muffle opposition to accountability if it gives a reasonable chance for students or schools to be successful in the system’s labeling… the political potential to muffle opposition within a system may be more important than the technical qualities of a […]
EPAA acceptance rate, 2007 and 2008 (English language articles): 12-13%
I have been doing some tidying up with EPAA, and looked at the stats for 2008. I don’t check the statistics often (and especially not early in a calendar year when manuscripts from the prior year may well be still pending), but authors occasionally need the information for tenure and promotion purposes. While there are […]
Structure, choice, or just good books to read?
Several years ago on the prompting of then-Governor Jeb Bush, Florida’s legislature mandated reading classes for middle-school students and ninth graders. On the first day of seventh grade a few years ago, a teenager I know discovered that his reading teacher had assigned Stephen Covey’s The Seven Habits of Highly Effective Teens. Yes, this was […]
Race to the Top comment sausage
A friend of mine from Chicago introduced me to the term link sausage as a blog entry that is not much more than a set of links. Here are links to various comments on Race to the Top (a tiny slice of the well-over-thousand comments submitted): National Education Association (Word) American Federation of Teachers (PDF) […]
Bad social criticism ‘r’ us
By Sherman Dorn on August 31, 2009
Kay Hymowitz’s piece on dating in the City Journal reminds me in one way of a horrible newsmagazine story in the late 1980s or early 1990s, one that proclaimed certainty that women who were single in their early 30s were doomed never to marry. In another way, it reminds me of Sex and the City: […]
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