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Sherman Dorn
No differences -> politics as usual?
While the DC vouchers debate swallowed more airtime, it’s David Figlio’s new study of Florida’s voucher programs that will reveal the state of voucher politics. Several years ago, opponents of vouchers pointed out the lack of accountability for the programs, and in response supporters inserted a mandated study comparing achievement of students using vouchers to […]
Prevent backtalk: turn on the television!
I knew it years ago, and in two studies released earlier this month and this week, I think both in peer reviewed journals, we have it confirmed: the best way to prevent teenagers from talking back to you is to turn on the television years earlier so that they don’t develop the ability to talk […]
The purpose of seminars/discussion
I’m at THATcamp this weekend and having a great deal of fun. (Check the Twitter archive for tweets with the #thatcamp tag…) But there is a lot of serious stuff here, and I was hoping that it would confirm or undermine the way I’m currently thinking about the problems of teaching online. The demography of […]
How to steer CYA-oriented bureaucracies, or why NCLB supporters need to think about libel law
Someone at USDOE sent me an invitation to listen to the June 14 phone conference where Arne Duncan explained how disappointed he was in Tennessee, Indiana, and other states with charter caps, let alone states such as Maine with no charter law, and how that disappointment might be reflected in the distribution (or lack of […]
The right kind of infection
The Powell et al. article on cultural complexity 90,00 years ago, published in the June 5 issue of Science, has some interesting consequences for education policy, though it’s an archaeology article. The argument the authors make is that one needs a certain population density before one can find surviving signs of cultural complexity (archaeological evidence […]