I agree with Checker Finn on something
Congratulations are owed the Fordham Foundation for putting together a group of young adults to place in various DC institutions connected to education and convincing them to blog. The Fordham Fellows blog is quickly turning into one of the livelier education blogs around. For example, from Cait Farrell’s entry today: My favorite part of the […]
John Kingdon rides again
Ed Muir writes, Just like mayoral and state takeover, [breaking up the L.A. Unified School District] is a solution that gets talked about in large part because people worried about L.A. schools need solutions to talk about. In other words, people use the ideas that are “floating out there” in the social ether. I’ve written about […]
President Bush guarantees irrelevance on NCLB
President Bush has promised a veto of any NCLB reauthorization with significant changes he would interpret as weakening the bill’s accountability provisions. The policy influence of this White House continues to recede. And along with the veto threat, the president decided to misinterpret the concerns many have with teaching to the test: People say, well, […]
Three shots at graduation rates
Below are three different takes on graduation rates and the Miller-McKeon discussion draft (which includes an elaborate definition of graduation rates and a 2.5% improvement target folded into AYP). This is partly a short description of my reaction to that piece of the discussion draft and partly an experiment in using different multimedia (including Youtube […]
I am not
SpockShermBy Sherman Dorn on October 15, 2007
Twice in the last day, people who know me a little but are not particularly close have called me “Sherm.” This occasionally happens both face-to-face and on e-mail, but I’m wondering if others take slight name mangling as a subtle signal about interlocutors. (Others misspell my last name, especially customer-service folks who find it hard […]
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