{"id":8211,"date":"2016-01-11T20:09:52","date_gmt":"2016-01-12T03:09:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shermandorn.com\/wordpress\/?p=8211"},"modified":"2016-01-11T10:23:33","modified_gmt":"2016-01-11T17:23:33","slug":"scholarly-impacts-brief-notes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/?p=8211","title":{"rendered":"Scholarly impacts, brief notes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today is the start of the semester at ASU, and short-term projects are following me around this month like lost puppies, so time to respond to <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.edweek.org\/edweek\/rick_hess_straight_up\/2016\/01\/the_2016_rhsu_edu-scholar_public_influence_rankings.html\">Rick Hess&#8217;s list<\/a> from last week has been short. A few brief notes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In the &#8220;nice to be mentioned&#8221; category: For some reason, I have not yet dropped off the list, after almost two years where I have been moving, starting a new administrative job, and then taking on some extra duties. While I was interviewed last year a few times about Jeb Bush&#8217;s time as governor in Florida, I thought his remarkable run at president has essentially killed the chances for future interviews. Either Hess&#8217;s\u00a0list has a lag time for changes\u00a0or those few interviews (plus <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/the-conversation-us\/arne-duncans-legacy-growi_b_8265084.html\">a column on Arne Duncan<\/a>) were enough. But for now, I suppose I can say, &#8220;I&#8217;m Number One Hundred Eightysomething!&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>At ASU, others on the list are David Berliner, Gene Glass, and David Garcia. I can point out a number of others who could and should be listed. Perhaps the most important aspect of this spottiness is that everyone from ASU who\u00a0<em>has<\/em> been on the list in the last few years are in ed policy, roughly speaking. I don&#8217;t think this is a blind spot of the list, necessarily, but there a few quirks in how Hess&#8217;s team has classified people: Larry Cuban has written primarily as an historian of education, for example, though that&#8217;s not how he&#8217;s classified, and while David Berliner&#8217;s degree is in psychology, his public speaking and writing is far closer to policy.<\/li>\n<li>I take lists like this with a grain of salt. Rick Hess does, too, from everything he says (including <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edweek.org\/ew\/articles\/2016\/01\/13\/the-responsibility-of-edu-scholars-in-the-public.html?cmp=soc-tw-shr\">today&#8217;s column<\/a> in <em>Ed Week<\/em>). There are organizations that try to help faculty reach out to the general public (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.scholarsstrategynetwork.org\/\">Scholars Strategy Network<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/historynewsnetwork.org\/\">History News Network<\/a>, to mention two),\u00a0but that is not the same thing as acknowledgment of the work in this area that faculty do. Recognizing scholars who conduct outreach beyond their peer circles\u00a0<em>should<\/em> be done. I don&#8217;t think\u00a0that&#8217;s done best by a ranking using\u00a0arbitrary measures, and I also know no one has a great way to do this.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is the start of the semester at ASU, and short-term projects are following me around this month like lost puppies, so time to respond to Rick Hess&#8217;s list from last week has been short. 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