Not quite Robespierre
NYC Mayor Bloomberg and Chancellor Klein’s foolishness has now reached the point where Diane Ravitch described it simply as a sorry situation in NYC. The description is accurate with four years of revolving reorganizations and mandates. The Coalition To Put the Public Back in Public Education managed to achieve some significant changes in the planned re-re-reorganization of the […]
Corporate donors and universities
From the cutting-room floor: Adam Emerson and I talked for about half an hour last weekend while he was preparing today’s article, Corporate U, and I think he did a nice job of putting the corporate sponsorship of one university program into a broader national contemporary perspective. I shouldn’t be surprised that the historical perspective was […]
Where’s Waldo… uh, Shakespeare?
Why I love reading Miriam Burstein (aka the Little Professor): detail and perspective in response to ACTA’s flawed Vanishing Shakespeare paper. The comments are thought-provoking, too.
The question that Reading First’s Chris Doherty never asked
(Disclosure: I have had colleagues who are involved in phonemic-awareness or phonics-based reading research. It pains me to see anyone I know involved even tangentially in conflict-of-interest problems, let alone people I highly respect. No, I don’t know the principals from Oregon who are at the center of this, and I’m not going to be […]
Working without glasses
By Sherman Dorn on April 29, 2007
I left my pair of reading glasses at a recital Thursday night and wasn’t able to find it Friday morning when I returned to the hall. So I’ve been without my reading glasses over the weekend. My eyesight isn’t that bad, mild farsightedness. But I can’t just read and compute for hours the same way […]
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