By Sherman Dorn on June 7, 2006
I have to make a choice soon about where I’ll be spending my spring 2007 conference time. It’s either the Population Association of America (PAA) March 29-31 (Thu-Sat) or the American Educational Research Association (AERA) April 9-13 (Mon-Fri). Actually, I don’t think I have a choice—as a journal editor, I should go to AERA when […]
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By Sherman Dorn on June 7, 2006
Last night, I was thinking about the moment in the early- to mid-1970s when state legislatures began experimenting with some form of accountability (as they then termed it, perhaps borrowing from Leon Lessinger, an associate commissioner of education in the Nixon administration). For example, Florida passed something called an accountability act in 1971, Governor Rubin […]
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Calendars and conferences
By Sherman Dorn on June 7, 2006
I have to make a choice soon about where I’ll be spending my spring 2007 conference time. It’s either the Population Association of America (PAA) March 29-31 (Thu-Sat) or the American Educational Research Association (AERA) April 9-13 (Mon-Fri). Actually, I don’t think I have a choice—as a journal editor, I should go to AERA when […]
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