Scimus quae legis, et non dicimus
There is now a t-shirt for the (thus far fictional?) Guild of Radical Militant Librarians. Oh, I guess I’ll have to translate: “We know what you read, and we’re not telling.”
Don’t Know Much about NCLB (but have opinions)
The ETS poll on attitudes towards No Child Left Behind Act is garnering quite a bit of attention, such as from Ed Week. I love pollsters’ schizophrenia, simultaneously asserting that the public doesn’t know much about NCLB but then talking about public opinion blithely (or is it breezily?). The statement designed to gauge how much […]
The right context on merit pay?
Sam Dillon’s Times story on merit pay has one inherent hypothesis, framing the growth of merit pay as the erosion of union opposition to performance pay. I suppose you could look at it that way, but I don’t think that’s accurate. For many years, my own faculty union (the United Faculty of Florida) was both an affiliate […]
A natural experiment with third-grade retention in Florida
Thus far, in the various news stories about the errors in Florida’s 2006 third-grade reading FCAT scores, no one has thought of the obvious study that should flow from it: a comparison between students retained in 2005 based on FCAT reading scores and students who were promoted but whose corrected scores in 2006 would have […]
This blog is now a podcast
By Sherman Dorn on June 16, 2007
You can now subscribe to this blog as a podcast. Just click on the picture or save the URL and paste in your favorite podcast aggregator (you can also click on this handy iTunes one-click link). The podcast uses text-to-speech technology, so you don’t get my voice, but it has decent production values given the […]
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