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Sherman Dorn
Stopping by the office on a steamy morning
Whose words these are you darned well know.My house is not on campus, thoughI’ve stumbled in by instinct. Gutshave steered me through the traffic flow. My teenagers must think me nuts.I work when they lie on their… beds;you smile upon their summer ease?Through morning steam the concrete juts and swallows cars and spits out keysand […]
Teachers and school demographics
A few weeks ago, the Journal of Labor Economics published C. Kirabo Jackson’s study of teacher moves away from schools in Charlotte that were moving towards single-race, segregated status (see lay description here; subscription-required article here). Today, the Education Policy Analysis Archives publishes Kitae Sohn’s article, Teacher Turnover: An Issue of Workgroup Racial Diversity (secondary […]
Drug education is NOT working… at least not at ED in ’08
Strong American Schools’ ED in ’08 campaign became one of the most successful independent advocacy initiatives of the 2008 election season and has helped turn the need for education reform from a low-priority campaign issue into one of the Obama Administration’s top policy priorities.–“Final Report from Strong American Schools” e-mail from Roy Romer and Marc […]
“Manufactured Controversy” the paper
Last week, Free Exchange on Campus published the latest thing other than student work to go on my to-read list: Manufactured Controversy, on the lessons to be learned from the attempt to politicize universities by David Horowitz and his allies. No, I haven’t read it yet. But that’s good news: this is a chance for […]
Someone left me out of the conspiracy
By Sherman Dorn on June 10, 2009
Dear Rev. Jeremiah “Them Jews aren’t going to let him talk to me” Wright, Apart from fact that you spoke on the day a white supremacist shot a security guard at the U.S. Holocaust Museum (once again, your timing is impeccable), there are only a few things I have to say to you: First, I […]
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