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 […]
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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