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Sherman Dorn
How charter co-location looks from afar
In the past week, there has been a political firestorm in New York as advocates of charter schools in New York City raised hell over the denial of co-location privileges for a minority of new charter schools that were to start in fall 2014. The outgoing administration of Michael Bloomberg (and his last schools chancellor […]
Why I’m headed to ASU
The Tampa Bay Times‘ Elisabeth Parker* wrote a very kind piece about my leaving USF that will appear in tomorrow morning’s paper. Because of space considerations and (probably) generosity on her part, the broader context of my job search was highly abbreviated. In most cases, I’m happy to be far in the background on pieces […]
Lil’ Putin annexes Chicago suburb
Putin invades the Crimea, and you won’t believe what happened next in Illinois! Warning: this entry is Not Safe for Wusses Who Can’t Stand Satire (NSFWWCSS).
Why does Senator Elizabeth Warren repeat a (fairly new but inaccurate) canard?
University of Wisconsin sociologist Sara Goldrick-Rab, AFT President Randy Weingarten, and Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren are at a forum on student debt this morning. Goldrick-Rab just asked on Twitter why Warren sticks to her rhetorical position that the federal government “profits” from student loans: Not sure why @SenWarren wants to suggest fed govt profits from […]
From the sauna into the frying pan
Brief programming note: part of the reason why my blog-writing has been lagging this semester is because I had two major talks to prepare in the last few months. One of them was a presentation about a month ago at Arizona State University’s Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College, and I will be joining them this […]