One-Blog Schoolhouse, the Musical collection of … edited blog entries
In the last few months, in odd moments, I’ve edited about three-dozen entries I’ve written in the past few years so you could hold the new One-Blog Schoolhouse in your hands after buying it at your local internet book dealer. Why should you buy a book composed of blog entries that you could probably find […]
Technology and assessment
Education Sector’s new report Beyond the Bubble is shorter than I had expected, so I finished it while watching the end of my son’s tae kwondo class last night. It looks to be a decent summary of the optimistic side of technology-and-assessment literature. Its tone is, “Yes, we can dramatically change and improve assessment with […]
Some things not even Dave Barry can make up
I wish the strange case of Dr. Rao were fictional, but it isn’t. My imagination just got served by reality.
The new/old myths about tenure
If you read an entry earlier this month on Fordham’s Flypaper blog, you might have the impression that Ohio Governor Ted Strickland rolled the unions by wanting tenure to be awarded after nine years and changing the dismissal standards to “just cause.” You might also have the same impression by reading some news stories about […]
Better late than never
By Sherman Dorn on February 19, 2009
Proof that the Obama Administration is doing the right thing but not always on my preferred schedule: Sweet Honey in the Rock performed in the White House yesterday, either 29 or 31 days after they should have performed publicly. And they’ll be performing publicly April 12 at the Lincoln Memorial for the Marian Anderson Tribute […]
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