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Educational Reform in Florida
Educational Reform in Florida: Diversity and Equity in Public Policy, a collection of essays edited by Kathy Borman and me, has been accepted for publication by SUNY Press. The collaborative work was supported for several years by the Spencer Foundation, and with sociologists and historians as the authors, it covers a broad range of perspectives […]
The value of the blogosphere
Jonathan Dresner is wrong when implying that a key value of the blogosphere is in its quick turnover of factual criticism that leads to clarification and new evidence. In this case, he was using the fuzzy (some said apocryphal) story David Horowitz was touting about a University of Northern Colorado student forced to write that […]
Syllepsis
I’ve now committed syllepsis unintentionally—in my entry yesterday on Ward Churchill, I meant to explain separately that fraud allegations are not all honest and that institutions and colleagues must therefore be careful, but I was sloppy and out came, “Academics can lie about each other and requires some care in investigation.” Does this now put […]
The “bits and pieces” stage
I have to get my head back into a few pieces of writing I haven’t seen in several months, disparate chapters from two books I’m co-editing. For one, Schools as Imagined Communities, I volunteered to add material to the introduction on a semi-chronological overview of what we could say about schools as communities, before the […]
Monster days
By Sherman Dorn on February 28, 2005
There are two types of monster days, though maybe I should call them bear days (as in “some days you get the bear, and some days …”). One kind of monster day eats you alive—equipment breaks down right, left, and center, there are seven phone calls that need urgent attention right before class starts, nothing […]
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