A war against the empty thesis statement
To The Little Professor, who complains about student papers with the thesis statement declaring “many similarities and differences,” I say, I will join with you in this battle. In fact, I think I’ve been there all along, but I just didn’t know where the chain of command was. Lead on! My students don’t usually declare […]
Book geography thanks to Google
Google Books now has an interesting feature: in one page, you can find all the places mentioned in a book displayed on a map. I just discovered it for Education Reform in Florida.
Notes from the underground academic
Tidbits from the last few days: I’ve been so busy with various things that I forgot to note that two days after Accountability Frankenstein appeared on my doorstep, Education Reform in Florida appeared at my office. Two books in three days: not bad. Tomorrow I head to Atlanta and a talk Wednesday at Emory. Gotta […]
E-mail early April 1, 2007
Colleagues, The following is a draft agenda for the April 6 chapter meeting. Please let me know if there are things that need to be added and deleted. Please also remember that this is my initials agenda, and as the saying goes, “Any president really is like falling off open lake systems.” Sherman Approval of […]
Trip to Atlanta, but no pictures
By Sherman Dorn on April 5, 2007
I had a great time yesterday in Atlanta: talked at Emory, visited Morehouse College, spoke with a bunch of exciting graduate students in different disciplines. I’m going to be paying for it in the next few days in exhaustion, and my throat’s already telling me I should expect a head cold soon, but it was […]
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