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The new "trad" Irish folk ensemble
By Sherman Dorn on November 16, 2012
Since plenty of policy bloggers devote Friday to cultural stuff (and in one case fishing adventures), it's time for me to play my hand. This is a story I reported on my personal blog about 6 years ago, and it still warms my heart. Every other week, Joseph's friends gather at his house to play [...]
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Zombies teach grammar
By Sherman Dorn on October 19, 2012
Best grammar teaching tip by Twitter ever: I finally learned how to teach my guys to ID the passive voice. If you can insert "by zombies" after the verb, you have passive voice. — Rebecca Johnson (@johnsonr) October 18, 2012 Let's see how this works with, say, part of the abstract of Robert Donmoyer's editorial in [...]
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Bain considered 1997 purchase with dramatic effect on education; scuttled over scandal
By Sherman Dorn on May 25, 2012
In a secret set of negotiations undisclosed until today, fifteen years ago Boston-based private-equity firm Bain Capital tried to buy out an important entity that, if the deal had been concluded, probably would have undergone a reorganization that would have forever changed the face of American culture and education. For according to meeting notes discovered [...]
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Are the large predators hanging around Florida charter schools reptiles or humans?
By Sherman Dorn on February 17, 2012
Over the past few months, reporter for weekly Broward/Palm Beach New Times Lisa Rab has been uncovering all sorts of unsavory details about charter schools run by Mavericks in Education, starting with a long feature at the end of December asking how Mavericks was profiting from poor children in South Florida and how Joe Biden's [...]
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Where did the work ethic go for Charles Murray?
By Sherman Dorn on February 3, 2012
Charles Murray "has said all of these things about black people before" -- Joan Walsh, review of Coming Apart in Slate. When you're well past your prime of peddling racist venom to elites who want to feel better about themselves, you have to reinvent things for the new century. Charles Murray has long argued the intellectual [...]
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