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Sherman Dorn
Texas, South Carolina, Missouri, and Alaska
I know that the reports of the common-standards agreement shepherded by the Council of Chief State School Officers and the National Governors Association describe a few different reasons for why four states have not joined in a standards framework that is probably going to be about as close to a less-is-more approach as one can […]
Notes on a Sunday afternoon
About an hour ago, I was fearing that I’d have to drive again to my office because I had left feedback sheets there, in the way that I realized last night I had goofed during the week, failed to print them out and failed to bring home the right cable to transfer student papers from […]
Unhappy with my brain right now
Fuzzy logic Responders/nonresponders Donald Rubin and multiple imputation Dichotomous variables Record linkage: whether a linkage allows one to determine outcome Limits Category theory You have now been infected. That is all (for now).
Disappointing debate over teacher unions
I wish I could say I had learned something from the education globule’s recent debate over the role of teacher unions, but I haven’t. When the apparent tail end of the discussion ends with a claim that “unions… are tenacious and need to be defeated, over and over and over again if reform is to […]
OCD in collaboration
I spent some time this afternoon working with colleagues in a teaching-like context (planning a weeklong summer workshop), and while we had talked about a number of possible ways to run the week, it wasn’t until one of us brought in a grid of the week divided into days and hours that we started to […]