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Sherman Dorn
Conversation often works … where it’s tried
Today, ACTA‘s Anne Neal thanked the AAUP and AACU for welcoming her outreach efforts.Towards the end of the blog entry, she writes, ACTA also shares many faculty members’ legitimate concern about administrative bloat and about trustees who lack a sensitive understanding of the special protocols and values that underwrite the unique enterprise of higher education. […]
The world is complicated, part 752
So the Center for Research on Education Outcomes has a report on charter-school performance, the Center on Education Policy has released a report on student achievement trends, NAEP released art-education data, and the spin has begun. Missing from almost all the reporting: Statements about the extent of peer reviewing for any of these reports. I’m […]
Iran’s university students and faculty under threat
According to a Chronicle of Higher Education report late today, as well as Twitter reports and images/videos from bloggers who have been able to post, Iran’s universities are under attack, either physically (with property destroyed and some reports of student deaths) or political pressures. If the clerical authorities gave orders for the Revolutionary Guard or […]
On graduation rates and auditing state databases
I sympathize with Florida’s Deputy Commissioner of Education Jeff Sellers, finding himself defending the state’s official graduation rate the week that Education Week published its Swanson-index issue and pointed to Florida as a low-graduation state, using numbers far below the state’s official numbers. Some perspective: Florida’s official graduation rate is inflated, but it’s still better […]
Mostly useless… except for blogging
I don’t know if any other bloggers has the experience I occasionally do, of wondering if people ever read my blog to see if I’m skipping work that I owe them. At almost any time, I owe scads of work to others, and I suppose they might all think I’m shirking my work when I […]