IHE column on the Spellings comission draft
If you followed the link to my blog after reading my Inside Higher Ed column, How To Succeed in Report Writing without Really Making Sense, welcome! Feel free to continue debating the ideas in the comments here. And look around—I write blog entries on education policy, academic freedom, my own research, and various other matters. […]
Increasing graduation rates, Part I
I’ve written enough recently about measuring graduation—as others have noted, it’s time to talk about improving it. My perspective is that one must understand the difference between in-school and out-of-school pressures on students. Students are both pushed out of school in different ways and also pulled into other things. With that in mind, the first […]
Helping Reg Weaver break the rules
Monday, I played a very small part in one of those parliamentary procedures that you usually think is a block to action—a point of order asking the chair to correct a mistake. But it turned out to be a way for a minority of delegates at the NEA Representative Assembly to dissent from the majority […]
NEA Representative Assembly volunteering
I drove about 3-1/2 hours today, back and forth to Orlando for my orientation session at the National Education Association Representative Assembly, which starts its official sessions tomorrow. I’ll be at a microphone station tomorrow through Tuesday, but it seemed silly to go to a morning orientation session and spend the night there when I […]
NEA Representative Assembly, day 1
By Sherman Dorn on July 2, 2006
It’a after 10 pm, and I’ll be kicked out of this café in about ten minutes, so my ideas about improving graduation will have to wait. The day at the NEA representative assembly was long, whether you were a volunteer who woke up in Tampa at 5:15 am and stayed in the convention center until […]
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