My letter to Jay Mathews
Last month, Jay Mathews wrote an op-ed, Let’s Teach to the Test, wherein Mathews defined teaching to the test as not drilling. That struck me as rather odd, so I wrote him. I didn’t make this letter public until now because I wanted to give him a chance to respond and because, well, I’ve been […]
The $100 Shakespeare challenges
Since voucher enthusiast Matthew Ladner has reissued his steak dinner challenge on voucher outcomes (I’ll let others criticize the ground rules), I think a parallel challenge is now in order from the other side, and here it is: In a speech earlier this year, Margaret Spellings claimed that there was no teaching to the test […]
HB 1427 dead—long live HB 1427
Well, I testified today in the Florida House PK-12 committee on HB 1427, the Democratic caucus’ alternative to Governor Bush’s accountability policy. (Update a bit later: The consideration of the bill starts 1 hour, 11 minutes, and 45 seconds into the video, and my testimony starts at 2 hours 21 minutes in.) It was a […]
Caring and teachers
See my contribution today to the new group blog The Wall. See also Leo Casey’s note in a similar vein, which I only ran across in preparing the entry. Update (3/29): Read the comments on the post, now, which discuss whether my observations are new at all and whether we should be teaching caring as […]
I like memory
By Sherman Dorn on March 29, 2006
I was able to swing by my campus’s computer store this more and install a GB chip in this laptop. Whooeey! Going from 512 MB to 1.25 GB makes a big difference in working with several complex programs open (for me, typically Outlook and Adobe at the same time starts slowing things, but not right […]
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