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Sherman Dorn
State-level NAEP data — slightly wonkish
Earlier this week, Morgan Polikoff and I had a brief Twitter exchange about the use of the low-stakes National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) tests for policy analysis, specifically the consequences of high-stakes accountability. I am on record as being moderately dissatisfied with use of state-level NAEP data for education policy analysis, and given the continued use of […]
Groundbreaking Study Shows We Have Been Doing It All Wrong
When familiar behavior you see every day happens, you think to yourself, I know that behavior is what I’ve been told that behavior is, amirite? Brand new research gives absolutely incontrovertible proof that we may be completely misunderstanding common behavior. Boom! A new study by unnamed researchers at some universities we’ve never heard of before […]
Fragmentary thoughts at the start of a semester
The semester break at Arizona State University is over. My grand designs to write the Great American Novel during the break never existed, probably a good idea. In the meantime… Stephanie Simon had the most provocative article title of the last week, accusing Obama’s education program of being “pomp and fizzle.” Simon is missing a lot of […]
Most Fabulist Edu-Predictions of 2015
Since NPR has seen fit to publish a listicle with education predictions for the year, I need to get in on this. Please be forewarned: I’m an historian, and sometimes it’s hard enough for me to predict the past, so there are no guarantees that these are going to be possible, let alone likely.
Jeb Bush and me
Well, no, not really. While he was governor, Jeb Bush and I had one short e-mail exchange, about a disability policy issue. That’ll prove disappointingly mundane if it’s in the cache of emails that Bush’s office has already released or will soon be releasing. But I do have a written record of comments on Jeb Bush as […]