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Sherman Dorn
No one ever accused Arne Duncan of impersonating an education researcher
Hopefully some day we can track kids from pre-school to high-school and from high school to college and college to career. Hopefully we can track good kids to good teachers and good teachers to good colleges of education. This was an excerpt from a speech Duncan gave today to IES staff about the need to […]
Sifting priorities, micro and macro
I had such good intentions this morning. After dropping off my daughter at the High School o’ SATs, I figured I’d sit in the local Starbucks and read student work while she was wearing down No. 2 pencils. So there I was at about 7:45 in the morning, listening to slightly-too-loud Sinatra and reading drafts […]
My brother, the health-care policy wonk
Time to kvell: my brother Stan Dorn is currently a staff member at the Urban Institute, the latest step in a long career in health policy. Yesterday, he went toe-to-toe with Douglas Holtz-Eakin, former Congressional Budget Office director, and Dennis Kneale, apparently one of the designated Yelling Heads at CNBC who asserted that 20,000 dead […]
Clemson, prestige, and reputation
Despite its attempt to claw back from an unintentional statement of truth, Clemson’s apparent manipulation/gaming of the U.S. News rankings system should give people one more reason to read Brewer, Gates, and Goldman’s In Pursuit of Prestige (library copies), about the difference between colleges and universities that try to move up the rankings, on the […]
The Procrustean bed of teacher tests
Mike Petrilli’s stab at the Sonia Sotomayor nomination via the Massachusetts teacher tests is a little askew, and I’m surprised he didn’t look at an obvious dilemma that’s deeper than the politics of a judicial nomination. Several former teachers have sued the state (and Pearson) for what they claim is a discriminatory impact of teacher […]