Yesterday, a reporter from WCPN public radio in Cleveland asked me if I’d be willing to be interviewed on-air tomorrow morning about the Ohio testing system. Ohio’s state department of education released some test results last week, and I gather the station will run a story summarizing them and then asking me some questions. I’ve been interviewed a few times by journalists, and it’s one of the public services academics do (in addition to the ego-boost and minimal public attention).<\/p>\n
The trick for preparation is to draft some short questions you think a journalist might ask and then think about your answers. It’s much like guessing questions that would be on a final exam, except your answers on the exam are not read or heard by thousands of people. I have my "cheat sheet" on my desk right now.<\/p>\n
I’m also revising the article manuscript that the History of Education Quarterly<\/cite> has accepted for publication (next year, probably in the fall). I’ve tried to make the first few paragraphs more readable.<\/p>\n Between two trips last week and the two-week trip starting June 12, I have a lot to do this week, playing catch-up and getting the ball rolling before I leave town.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Yesterday, a reporter from WCPN public radio in Cleveland asked me if I’d be willing to be interviewed on-air tomorrow morning about the Ohio testing system. Ohio’s state department of education released some test results last week, and I gather the station will run a story summarizing them and then asking me some questions. I’ve […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","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":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-research"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pag0MB-2c","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136","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=136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}