Don’t worry
Despite news of academics making forays into stand-up comedy, I’m keeping my day job. My students generally say that my lame attempts at jokes are just punishing.
Andy Beveridge’s gift to you this month
Hop on over to the New York Times's Mapping America tool for exploring census-tract estimates of key demographic variables from the American Community Survey (2005-2009 five-year estimates). Almost a decade ago, the Census Bureau started the American Community Survey as a replacement for the decennial census's long form (along with other goals), so no one […]
Student surveys, the good and bad
Having finished the grading process for my undergraduate students, I have some doctoral students to attend to and a few short writing assignments as well this week. So while I am itching to read the Gates Foundation-funded, Tom Kane-directed report on value-added measures and surveys of student-observed teacher behavior, I haven't yet had an opportunity. […]
Genshaft’s decade at USF
This weekend's Tampa Tribune profile of Judy Genshaft follows a similar story in July by Rick Danielson in the St. Petersburg Times. There was one comment attributed to me by the Tribune's Lindsay Peterson that I think could be read in a way that is not consistent with what our conversation was about. Since the […]
Comment policy
By Sherman Dorn on December 11, 2010
I've been impressed by the comment policy at Paul Krugman's blog, so I'm going to borrow it here, with a few tweaks: No spam No comments irrelevant to the post or ongoing comment discussion No ad hominem or obscenities First time you comment, it's held until I can approve it. No comments that stretch beyond […]
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