On metaphors and people
A few days ago I commented on an Eduwonk entry about Michelle Rhee’s wanting more convenient dismissal options for non-unionized central-office staff… and teachers, in part to give some positive reinforcement for the decision to allow comments and in part because there are some interesting ideas in the entry that I wanted to follow up […]
The day I’ve been waiting for
Exercise. Catching up with my online class’s discussion board and adding the starter for a new thread. Reading and accepting three revised manuscripts for Education Policy Analysis Archives. Writing two (and with this, three) short blog entries. More small tasks to come. In other words, today has been a perfectly mundane day. I needed it.
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 […]
1000
By Sherman Dorn on October 19, 2007
The first entry for this blog is dated March 24, 2001, with 2400 days between that entry and this one. (For those who check permalinks, there are two reasons why this entry is number 1053 instead of 1000: some entries get uploaded twice by mistake, so one copy must be deleted, and there is another, rather […]
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