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Sherman Dorn
Nothing fuzzy about fuzzy math
George W. Bush is probably responsible for people calling constructivist math advocacy “fuzzy math”. There is a field called fuzzy logic, and while I know very little about it, I’m irritated that the former president’s maladroit use of English is messing up technical terminology. Fuzzy logic is a useful tool in engineering, and while Lotfi […]
See-no-knowledge in education policy?
I seem to be reading several “we don’t know anything so let’s plow ahead” arguments in education think-tankery, from Mike Petrilli’s argument that because we don’t currently have a solid research base about how to turn schools around, we shouldn’t try, to Kevin Carey’s consistent argument in Education Sector’s blog that because there is no […]
One more reason not to use Elsevier
If fake journals created at the whim of pharmaceutical companies weren’t bad enough, how about paying people to assign five stars to textbooks in Amazon’s review system?
Being paid to sit in a/c
As Notorious Ph.D. wrote at the end of last week, most nine-month faculty do not get a vacation in summer but are just unemployed and often still have to work. Some such folks have plenty of resources to tide them over until the fall, others have a salary that is stretched out over twelve months, […]
Still mis-remembering Title IX
Two years ago, I pointed out that our modern discussion of Title IX focuses too much on athletics and ignores the broad sweep of changes brought by Title IX. So what does the White House blog mention when previewing its Title IX celebration? Athletics (in an entry written by United Nations Ambassador Susan Rice).