An Honorable Time
My students know better than to assume the existence of some mythical Golden Age of families, education, or anything else. And yet I’m allowed a certain nostalgia for my undergraduate days at Haverford College, in part because we had an incredible luxury (and students still do, I assume), taking exams any time during finals week, […]
Writing
The last class is done and now I grade. In the meantime, I’ve finally read the March 2001 issue of Educational Research, to find the following in one article: Freire’s theory appears to be insufficiently historicized, even though he places a historical and cultural praxis at its core. As we will see, this leads to […]
Plagiarism
was originally intending to write about something else, and then I saw my friend Debbie Ohi’s Blatherings entry today on Internet stealing as well as Yen Shinkasen’s journal entry describing someone else who "borrowed" her entire site’s hand-coded design. Since I’ve had three cases of obvious plagiarism this semester (one stealing from an on-line source), […]
Home stretch or the calm before the storm
This week is the penultimate one in the semester schedule, and so work is going to start piling up. Doing nothing work-wise over the weekend was crucial to my maintaining my balance as everything comes due for students and I need to read things quickly and fairly. When I was an undergraduate and graduate student, […]
In the middle of the storm
By Sherman Dorn on April 21, 2001
The papers came last Tuesday, and I’m in the midst of reading them. Tomorrow will be a long day at the office. That plus other obligations means I’m doing plenty of juggling. Vincent has had a 104 F. fever the last few days, and I took him to the doctor’s office. Some things just take […]
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