Sketching a course 1
In the next few days I need to carve out time for journal editing responsibilities as well as writing a symposium paper I’d promised to be finished by Friday but probably won’t be done until next Tuesday or so. (There, Laura! I’ve made that commitment publicly.) But since I’m waiting for a student to show […]
Should schools borrow the best or the worst from business?
Today, Florida TaxWatch issued a set of recommendations for cost cutting in education (hat tip), and one quotation put in a separate box stood out for me, from Florida TaxWatch’s Center for Educational Performance chair David Mann: Education should borrow from business practices:… As Good to Great author Jim Collins might ask, that’s all fine […]
U.S. News rankings
Like many faculty, I’m of two minds about the U.S. News rankings. On the one hand, it can bring recognition to the work of colleagues. In particular, there are three programs in my department that have had successful grant writers, and they all contribute to the rankings of my own college in the graduate-school issue […]
The third grading turning point and other myths
A few weeks ago, Sara Mead wrote about Combatting The Third Grade Slump in the Early Ed Watch blog, and she repeated a phrase that always bewilders me a bit: We know that third grade is a major transition point in children’s education. It’s when they make the switch from learning to read, to reading […]
So I’m on a list… welcome to Washington Post readers
By Sherman Dorn on April 7, 2008
Welcome to those who are visiting after seeing Jay Mathews and Ken Bernstein’s Favorite Education Blogs of 2008 column. As you’ll see from the entry made earlier today, it’s a wonderful irony that I’m on a selective list the same day that I criticize such lists. Heh! In any case, Mathews’s blurb is better than […]
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