{"id":1171,"date":"2008-01-11T11:40:17","date_gmt":"2008-01-11T15:40:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shermandorn.com\/wordpress\/?p=1171"},"modified":"2008-01-11T11:40:17","modified_gmt":"2008-01-11T15:40:17","slug":"one-more-for-the-distorted-reading-of-course-titles-and-descriptions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/?p=1171","title":{"rendered":"One more for the distorted reading of course titles and descriptions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 2006, the American Council of Trustees and Alumni wrote a screed, <em>How Many Ward Churchills?<\/em>, based entirely on superficial catalog analysis and ripped to shreds in many places, including <a href=\"http:\/\/weblogs.swarthmore.edu\/burke\/?p=201\">Timothy Burke&#8217;s blog<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>It looks like the <em>let&#8217;s try to suss what happens in a course from hundreds of miles away<\/em> &#8220;method&#8221; is live and well in the hands of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.city-journal.org\/2008\/18_1_snd-ed_schools.html\">Jay Greene and Catherine Shock<\/a>. See the straightforward explanation of why this is wrong in the blog entry of Eduwonkette&#8217;s friend <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.edweek.org\/edweek\/eduwonkette\/2008\/01\/jay_greene_and_the_magic_abacu_1.html\">skoolboy<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Isn&#8217;t this what Matt Drudge does for a living?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2006, the American Council of Trustees and Alumni wrote a screed, How Many Ward Churchills?, based entirely on superficial catalog analysis and ripped to shreds in many places, including Timothy Burke&#8217;s blog. It looks like the let&#8217;s try to suss what happens in a course from hundreds of miles away &#8220;method&#8221; is live and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[8,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academic-freedom","category-higher-education"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pag0MB-iT","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1171\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}