Passages
For me, 2009 was full of transitions, from the private to the international. On the private side (or that affecting me directly), in addition to my mother-in-law’s death, I’m wrapping things up (or winding them down) at the end of my five-year term as Education Policy Analysis Archives editor, and my daughter has her driver’s license […]
Education stories of 2009 (U.S.)
The end of the year is the traditional time for journalists and laypeople to look back and identify major issues in a year. As Phil Graham (or maybe Ben Bradlee) said, journalism is a first rough draft of history, and you know what a first rough draft looks like. Nonetheless, as an historian I’ll take […]
I agree with Paul Cottle: set a date for science
In response to Florida Commissioner Eric Smith’s weekend op-ed in the Tallahassee Democrat (responding to the December 13 op-ed by FSU physics professor Paul Cottle), Cottle says, roughly, okay, maybe not this year, but set a firm date for setting up EOC exams in all central science areas. I’ll go further: Florida needs to set […]
What can graphic novels teach us about verbs in static displays?
I’m in my office this afternoon for a few hours getting some work-related puttering done. While I’m procrastinating on the puttering for a few minutes, I want to talk aloud (or write publicly) about some thoughts I had in the last few days about how graphic novels convey verbs. Here’s the problem: most forms of […]
One more almost unreadable student paper for 2009…
By Sherman Dorn on December 31, 2009
After trying to decipher Chuck’s handwriting with all those scribbles and crossouts, I will never, ever complain about my own students again.
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