Comic book demerits
Today’s New York Times story by Elissa Gootman on comic books as curriculum has a fairly typical narrative structure in education reporting: creative person invents Method X to engage kids, which relies on popular culture; it’s spreading like wildfire, and attracting critics. In the case of Gootman’s story, the creative person is Michael Bitz, the […]
Guesting on Edwize!
I’ve gone and committed guest blogging over at the UFT blog Edwize. The gist of the argument is that Joel Klein’s pulling a Microsoft-like maneuver with accountability. And he’s the guy who prosecuted Microsoft for antitrust violations.
All I Want for Christmas is a Good Science Education
The science advocacy group Florida Citizens for Science has a creative way to get a pro-science message across to state policymakers (especially the Board of Education) during the run-up to a vote on the proposed new science standards—which mention evolution for the first time in the state’s curriculum standards. It’s to send holiday greeting cards […]
7 random things you probably don’t want to know about me
Thanks, Eduwonkette. I’ll skip tagging 7 others (if you’re reading this, consider yourself tagged, with response optional). I have a cold right now. When he was in office, I once asked former California Senator Alan Cranston what he was doing for wild horses. I have solved a Rubik’s Cube, but I’ve forgotten the solution. My […]
Basex: addressing management problems in deep ways?
By Sherman Dorn on December 26, 2007
Basex, Inc. has successfully promoted its 2008 problem of the year in a variety of news outlets, and I’m sure you’ll hear about it by tomorrow morning. The problem: too much information overload through e-mail. Never mind that we’re not in 2008 yet, and this is more a matter of promoting the (who ever heard […]
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