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One manuscript submission, four hours
I have just changed the projected submission turnaround time for EPAA to reflect my reality, and here’s a reason for that reality: I just spent four hours crafting a response to a manuscript submission. In this particular case, I think the manuscript is publishable with work, but it does need work, and I needed to […]
Framing NCLB debates
Matthew Yglesias has a point about the the details of NEA’s No Contractor Left Behind flyer passed out liberally at YearlyKos this weekend. Yglesias notes that the message of the flyer relies on sloppy reasoning and is more sensationalist than sensible. I’m worried by something else about the flyer: it’s irrelevant to NCLB policy debates. […]
Whew!
Just got done with hours of close editing of an article manuscript that I am accepting. I have discovered that giving editorial advice to authors of accepted manuscripts with the acceptance saves considerable time on the other end, since the final manuscripts that come in are usually coming in with fewer problems. (There are still […]
Pithy wisdom will wait
Last night as I was driving around on a few errands, I listened to part of This American Life‘s 10 Commandments episode. This morning, a clever idea from that popped into my head, but I’m afraid I’ve been spending time on journal editing tasks–reading reviewer reports and sending out some disposition letters, starting with the […]
Today’s priorities
By Sherman Dorn on August 28, 2007
On the agenda today: working on my promotion packet and on Education Policy Analysis Archives.
Posted in EPAA, Random comments