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American Journal of Sociology review of "Schools as Imagined Communities"
I just found online the book review of Schools as Imagined Communities that Scott Davies wrote in the American Journal of Sociology. It’s positive, and it includes the following in the conclusion: As a whole, the book offers sociologists several themes to ponder, such as the uneasy relation between ideals of school community and formal equality, […]
Social annotation and the marketplace of ideas
David Rothman has a wonderful idea from the growth of social annotation tools and the development of an open e-book format: How long until savvy writers pester publishers to let them do interactive e-books? — where readers’ comments can appear in relevant places in the texts or elsewhere in the books. Imagine the possibilities for […]
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. […]
Disappointing reading
After crunching through three rounds of papers, it’s time to take a break and review Edward Tufte’s Beautiful Evidence (2006), the fourth in a series of coffeetable books on presenting information: The Visual Display of Quantitative Information (1983), Envisioning Information (1990), and Visual Explanations (1997). Tufte’s website is a cornucopia of fascinating discussion of graphics and […]
1000
By Sherman Dorn on October 19, 2007
The first entry for this blog is dated March 24, 2001, with 2400 days between that entry and this one. (For those who check permalinks, there are two reasons why this entry is number 1053 instead of 1000: some entries get uploaded twice by mistake, so one copy must be deleted, and there is another, rather […]
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