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Relationships between faculty and students
Today’s St. Petersburg Times covers USF‘s faculty debate over faculty-student relationships and the appropriate policy: discourage or prohibit? The article is pretty good for journalism: I didn’t catch any inaccuracies, and it covered at least 60% of the substantive issues on campus. (There’s only so much you can do given the news space even in […]
Will the international debates ever be Finnish’d?
The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development’s (OECD’)s Programme for International Student Assessment just released Problem Solving for Tomorrow’s World – First Measures of Cross Curricular Competencies from PISA 2003. According to the latest international comparison, the highest-achieving 15-year-olds in problem-focused math appear to be those from the western rim of the Pacific and Finland. […]
See George dissemble
No, I’m not talking about our president but George Will, whose November 28 column on academe repeated the distortion of the American Enterprise Institute’s Karl Zinzmeister that our campuses are one-party operations. If you look at the graphs from this “study,” it appears as if American academics have only a left wing, because—gasp!—there were five […]
Classroom use at USF
Today, the Oracle, USF’s student newspaper, printed a guest column I sent a few days ago. The electronic version is cleaner than the column that appeared on p. 5 of the printed version (the link which will only show the relevant issue in PDF through mid-August 2004), but neither is precisely what I wrote:
Trying comments again…
By Sherman Dorn on January 15, 2005
After checking out several other academic blogs like Playing School, Irreverantly, I’ve decided to try using Haloscan‘s comment accounts because it appears it’s less subject to comment spam. So we’ll see if anyone’s interested enough in this to comment! (Hmmn… does this say anything about my time management on Saturday evenings? Maybe because my spouse […]
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