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 […]
Roy Rosenzweig
T. Mills Kelly has the best remembrance of Roy Rosenzweig today. Rosenzweig was a pioneer in digital history who began the Center for History and New Media (see the original page). (Hat tip.)
Just plain offal
University Diarist was on the nose: SIU President Poshard’s plagiarism been excused, according to a cover-up panel: These instances resulted in “inadvertent plagiarism.” … [After Poshard corrects his dissertation,] the committee recommends that no further action, such as a formal hearing, be taken. So now “everyone else was doing it” and “I didn’t mean to” […]
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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