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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By Sherman Dorn on April 7, 2008
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 […]
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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 […]
Posted in Random comments, Writing and editing