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Sherman Dorn
The different meanings of “public”
A brief gloss this morning on Bruce Baker’s take on whether (and the extent to which) charter schools are public schools: to historians this splitting of the meaning of “public” makes sense. As historians of education such as Michael Katz have noted, one of the consequences of the common-school movement in the 19th century was […]
Bernie Machen #fail
Steven Salzberg says it better than I could, on Forbes. Since 2008, President Bernie Machen and Provost Joe Glover have repeatedly taken bad news from the legislature and made it palpably worse for UF. ((Reminder: This is my opinion as an individual faculty member and does not necessarily represent the views of my department colleagues […]
Reports on college student learning leave out passion
Thursday’s David Brooks column talks simple-mindedly about wanting colleges to be held accountable for student learning, somewhat misstates a key claim of Academically Adrift, and writes in a generally David Brooksish style, which should only be alarming if you were expecting a Krugman column. From my position deep in the territory controlled by the Southern Association […]
Why you don’t pillory employees, even the total jerks
I know very little about the HR policies of police departments, including at University of California Davis, but I knew a few things Conor Friedersdorf did not when writing a screed at The Atlantic about employee record privacy tied to the pepper-spraying cop. Friedersdorf is outraged that the employment status of Lieutenant John Pike is […]
Kale chips and the LMS
For the last three Thursday mornings, I’ve sat through presentations by a combination of developers and sales teams from three different learning management systems (or LMSs), since USF’s IT department wanted to look at the institution’s choices and asked faculty and students from around the university to help organize an evaluation of different LMSs. ((The […]