Farewell to Anchovy
My colleagues and I are saying goodbye this summer to the fictional suburb of Anchovy, Columbia, where we set a number of simulations/case studies over the past half decade. These were written for our bread-and-butter undergraduate course to help students satisfy the state's older list of competencies for new teachers, and now that the competencies […]
The dilemma of the Mets fan
Brief and relatively inconsequential news of the month: two of my region's pro teams are shocking the sports world. Jaw drop, giant: after letting almost every high-profile player go to free agency and then starting the season with an eight-game losing streak, plus having their star player Evan Longoria on the disabled-list for a few […]
The epistemological closure of Checker Finn
The "truth": Save for one experiment carried out in Tennessee in the 1980s, which yielded ambiguous results that were, in any case, limited to kindergarten and the first two grades, there is no persuasive evidence that smaller classes yield higher student achievement. Checker Finn in the New York Daily News [emphasis added] "No" as in none, zilch, […]
There is still a tulip market
I visited my daughter over the weekend, with a parent-volunteers meeting at her college as a convenient excuse to pop up to the Northeast and give her an easy ride off campus between the end of classes and finals. We spent a good part of three days walking outside, enjoying spring weather and several gardens–something […]
Happy Mother’s Day! and some random thoughts
By Sherman Dorn on May 8, 2011
Happy Mother's Day! Both of our children were born in May, and I made sure to get some flowers for my wonderful spouse. For those with an historical bent, I recommend last year's Backstory Radio podcast on Mother's Day. For my present to my own mother, I decided not to call her when I got […]
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