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Accountability Frankenstein is now printed!
Copies of Accountability Frankenstein appeared in my mailbox this afternoon. Hurrah! You can buy it directly from the publisher. (Yes, it’s available at Amazon.com, but for small publishers, I understand that Amazon is much like Wal-Mart, and I want to make clear that I’m putting the link in for convenience, not because I prefer you use […]
Comma interruptus
I’m currently providing advice to some colleagues on a manuscript, and 90% of the changes I’m suggesting are the elimination of commas that come in the middle of a clause between the subject and verb or between the verb and the object. In almost all cases, the commas separate parenthetical comments that would be more […]
Of Diane Ravitch and presentism
In an amended entry earlier today, I noted my being a Michael Katz student and somehow still not having fits at the sight of Diane Ravitch’s name. (As far as I’m aware, Michael doesn’t, either.) That doesn’t mean that I agree with her substantive scholarship, and I’ll repeat here a 2004 contribution I made to […]
Shameless book plugs
If you visit my home page, you’ll now see links to a brief bio as well as to separate pages describing the four books I’ve written or co-edited: Creating the Dropout Schools as Imagined Communities* Education Reform in Florida* Accountability Frankenstein If my guess is right, the latest two books will be appearing in press […]
Hot cocoa
By Sherman Dorn on February 16, 2007
We’re expecting an Arctic mass coming through the Gulf and to Florida overnight, so it might be freezing overnight, but right now it’s a Florida-freezing but everywhere-else-toasty 50 F. In sympathy with everyone who’s reading this from snow country, and because I have a head cold while trying to ignore my e-mail and finish a […]
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