By Sherman Dorn on September 8, 2021
For the first time in my career, I’ve started receiving gifts that colleagues thought I’d enjoy related to a research project — i.e., they identify me with my current research into the post-1945 history of educational broadcasting in the United States, a project that is less than half a decade old. For an historian, that […]
Posted in Education policy, History, Research
By Sherman Dorn on August 21, 2021
Guano Point sits 75 miles north of Kingman, Arizona, on the southern lip of the Western Grand Canyon, and on it perches the remnants of a tramway system, a launching point for failed dreams and a missing 99,000 tons of guano. We’ll return in a bit to the missing guano. As Roger Smith tells the […]
Posted in Arizona, Politics
By Sherman Dorn on August 16, 2021
“The corporate communist globalist satanic Uniparty is the faction our founders warned us about,” Arizona Senator Wendy Rogers tweeted August 4. It’s the type of unhinged comment we now expect from Sen. Rogers, but it would also make a great first sentence for a spy thriller— okay, a hilariously-awful one. Or take the grandstanding of […]
Posted in Arizona, Politics
By Sherman Dorn on June 12, 2021
How do you write a cover letter in applying for a full-time faculty job? This blog entry is a complement to my advice on crafting the curriculum vitae, and was originally a twitter thread in May 2021, responding to two colleagues from the University of North Carolina. Like a vitae, a cover letter is purpose-built, […]
Posted in Higher education, The academic life
By Sherman Dorn on March 27, 2021
Why did the Biden administration deny the request by Georgia and South Carolina to waive federal requirements for achievement testing in schools this year? According to Aaron Pallas and many others, there is no discernible added information we can expect from state-level testing that is only for a summative judgment of schools, in a year […]
Posted in Education policy
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