{"id":1017,"date":"2007-07-21T12:16:12","date_gmt":"2007-07-21T16:16:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shermandorn.com\/wordpress\/?p=1017"},"modified":"2007-07-21T12:16:12","modified_gmt":"2007-07-21T16:16:12","slug":"reading-but-not-what-you-think","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/?p=1017","title":{"rendered":"Reading&#8230; but not what you think"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, I was at a local bookstore at midnight, getting two copies of <em>Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows<\/em>. But I&#8217;m in my office this afternoon, reading student papers. I don&#8217;t get the <em>Harry Potter <\/em>until I&#8217;m done.<\/p>\n<p>In other news, Jeff Solochek <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.tampabay.com\/schools\/2007\/07\/new-face.html\">reports correctly<\/a> that I&#8217;m now the representative of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fcarweb.org\/\">Florida Coalition for Assessment Reform<\/a> on the Florida DOE&#8217;s advisory committee looking at the FCAT. I&#8217;ve worked with FCAR co-founder Gloria Pipkin before on a few matters, and I was flattered to receive her request. This is an interesting challenge for me, and Gloria and I took a few steps to make sure that the FCAR board was comfortable with my particular take on accountability. <\/p>\n<p>There are a few things that Solochek didn&#8217;t get correctly. I don&#8217;t think of myself as an &#8220;FCAT critic&#8221; but a critic of the current uses of the FCAT. The conflation of the test with the policy is interesting&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The more serious problem is the way that the <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.tampabay.com\/schools\">Gradebook<\/a>&#8216;s <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.tampabay.com\/schools\/images\/2007\/07\/21\/port1bwthumb.jpg\">thumbnail of my portrait<\/a> is all fuzzy. You can compare it to the image in the top left corner of this page and see what you think. But I understand the need for thumbnails, and I am here providing a slim, 100-by-100 portrait that should accommodate virtually any blog&#8217;s storage limits:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Simpsonized Dorn portrait\" height=\"100\" alt=\"Simpsonized Dorn portrait\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shermandorn.com\/mt\/archives\/Simpsonized image 6.png\" width=\"100\" border=\"0\"><br \/>(after <a href=\"http:\/\/www.simpsonizeme.com\/\">Simpsonization<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>Enough silliness.&nbsp; Back to reading!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, I was at a local bookstore at midnight, getting two copies of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. But I&#8217;m in my office this afternoon, reading student papers. I don&#8217;t get the Harry Potter until I&#8217;m done. 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