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Sherman Dorn
D***ed autocorrect by Edweek… / Rick Hess’s comment re AERA
I hate sock puppetry, and since Edweek’s server would not let me add a display name to my account this morning, it is not clear on the website that I am the author of the first response to Rick Hess’s call for public defunding of AERA. I am “USER_768949.” ((Who is USER_1??)) Hess is arguing that […]
Anticipatory Schadenfreude rhetoric
In an essay in The New Republic, Kevin Carey has apparently joined the disruptiness gang: Many factors explain the endurance of higher education institutions—the ascent of the knowledge economy, their crucial role in upper-middle class acculturation, our peculiar national enthusiasm for college sports—but the single greatest asset held by traditional colleges and universities is their […]
How to manipulate data and figures
On occasion, students and reporters ask me what makes me trust or distrust folks who claim to be education researchers, and it’s a harder question to answer than one might think. As an historian with some quantitative training, I am eclectic on methods–I have no purity test other than “the evidence and reasoning have to […]
Odds and ends
It’s been a wild week to be an involuntary observer this week — the week before spring break for me turned out to be very busy for both anticipated and unanticipated reasons, so I was unable to comment on the debate over SB 1718 in Florida (the “parent trigger” bill), the higher ed budget and […]
Minor addendum on the TDR coverage post
In rereading the post I just uploaded, I realized some readers may be surprised at the fact no major news organization earned a B or C. That is an artifact of the herd response by media, where most published the teacher names and (bad) data. In terms of potential favoritism, I have no personal connection […]