Sherman Dorn
@shermandorn.com
Personal account, historian of education policy
We don't need no stinkin' badges, Charlie Brown
Deserve’s got nuthin’ to do with it, Charlie Brown
I have no mouth and I must scream, Charlie Brown
November 24, 2025 at 4:25 AM
We don't need no stinkin' badges, Charlie Brown
The door dilated, Charlie Brown
I have no mouth and I must scream, Charlie Brown
Someday a real rain will come, Charlie Brown
November 24, 2025 at 4:24 AM
The door dilated, Charlie Brown
I mostly love @lastweektonight.com's episode on public media, and the two understandings of @joshshepperd.bsky.social's book cover illustrates something I've been wrestling with in my ed'l broadcasting history: the connections twixt 2 meanings of network: social-institutional & platforming networks.
November 23, 2025 at 5:01 PM
I mostly love @lastweektonight.com's episode on public media, and the two understandings of @joshshepperd.bsky.social's book cover illustrates something I've been wrestling with in my ed'l broadcasting history: the connections twixt 2 meanings of network: social-institutional & platforming networks.
Need a reality check from @joshshepperd.bsky.social @victorpickard.bsky.social et al: LWT segment ran the 1969 Rogers testimony in Pastore hearing as it's typically presented, as "saving" CPB approps.
I thought 1969 was the FIRST annual approps & Nixon's war started in 1971. Am I hallucinating?
I thought 1969 was the FIRST annual approps & Nixon's war started in 1971. Am I hallucinating?
November 20, 2025 at 5:01 AM
Need a reality check from @joshshepperd.bsky.social @victorpickard.bsky.social et al: LWT segment ran the 1969 Rogers testimony in Pastore hearing as it's typically presented, as "saving" CPB approps.
I thought 1969 was the FIRST annual approps & Nixon's war started in 1971. Am I hallucinating?
I thought 1969 was the FIRST annual approps & Nixon's war started in 1971. Am I hallucinating?
Hey, @norc.org, you just frontloaded a survey with ELEVEN demographic (and demo-like) questions, instead of putting them at the end.
This will now be my primary example of a survey design calculated to lead to survey fatigue. Not a good thing!
This will now be my primary example of a survey design calculated to lead to survey fatigue. Not a good thing!
November 19, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Hey, @norc.org, you just frontloaded a survey with ELEVEN demographic (and demo-like) questions, instead of putting them at the end.
This will now be my primary example of a survey design calculated to lead to survey fatigue. Not a good thing!
This will now be my primary example of a survey design calculated to lead to survey fatigue. Not a good thing!
What I told a reporter several weeks ago, and this is going to have so many downstream effects.
Attendance drops in Wake, Durham, Chapel Hill schools during Border Patrol surge. On Tuesday, 19,471 Wake County students were absent, or nearly 1 in 9 kids. That was 7,841 more absences compared to a normal day. www.newsobserver.com/news/local/e... #nced #ncpol #wcpss
Attendance drops in Wake, Durham, Chapel Hill schools during Border Patrol surge
Nearly 1 in 9 Wake County students were absent on Tuesday, far higher than the normal total.
www.newsobserver.com
November 19, 2025 at 7:20 PM
What I told a reporter several weeks ago, and this is going to have so many downstream effects.
“Continues efforts” is an accurate headline
At least one Republican congressman thinks ongoing Education Department changes could threaten the well-being of vulnerable students, such as those with disabilities. https://chroni.cl/4oQinqt
Trump Administration Continues Efforts to Dismantle the Education Department
Grant-making programs that support college access and student success will be outsourced to the Department of Labor under a new deal.
www.chronicle.com
November 19, 2025 at 6:15 PM
“Continues efforts” is an accurate headline
From a librarian's email to me: "I set a reminder on my calendar to preorder it a month before it is published in June 2026."
COVER REVEAL AND PREORDER: The Public Scholar - A Practical Handbook.
"Perry focuses on the practical details of how to approach public scholarship. How do you pitch a piece to an editor? When should you follow or ignore the rules of the genre? And what happens once your piece is out in the world?"
"Perry focuses on the practical details of how to approach public scholarship. How do you pitch a piece to an editor? When should you follow or ignore the rules of the genre? And what happens once your piece is out in the world?"
The Public Scholar
A Practical Handbook
www.press.jhu.edu
November 19, 2025 at 3:57 PM
From a librarian's email to me: "I set a reminder on my calendar to preorder it a month before it is published in June 2026."
An accurate headline from @azmirror.com, part of @statesnewsroom.com
November 19, 2025 at 2:07 PM
An accurate headline from @azmirror.com, part of @statesnewsroom.com
Wonderful to collaborate with 3 doc students on a MS. We're done drafting and oops! looks like we're about 600 words over. So I'm going through and trimming, mostly my own contributions.
Entertaining tangent? GONE!
Entertaining tangent? GONE!
November 18, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Wonderful to collaborate with 3 doc students on a MS. We're done drafting and oops! looks like we're about 600 words over. So I'm going through and trimming, mostly my own contributions.
Entertaining tangent? GONE!
Entertaining tangent? GONE!
There's a long winding history about the Department of Education, formerly the Office of Education, but whatever expertise the former HEW had to manage education programs in 1979 no longer exists in HHS, outside two research centers in NIH (and that's about research).
Disability education should not be put into HHS because it's not a health issue, it's an education issue. The idea that disability = health is dehumanizing and, frankly, simply wrong.
November 18, 2025 at 11:36 PM
There's a long winding history about the Department of Education, formerly the Office of Education, but whatever expertise the former HEW had to manage education programs in 1979 no longer exists in HHS, outside two research centers in NIH (and that's about research).
Starting an AI company next week, named Tulip.
November 18, 2025 at 5:13 AM
Starting an AI company next week, named Tulip.
Say something mildly controversial in class? In some states you're immediately suspended from teaching!
But at Harvard, if you show piss-poor judgment about a whole host of things, keep that schedule intact.
But at Harvard, if you show piss-poor judgment about a whole host of things, keep that schedule intact.
He is still teaching and mentoring students. Harvard should remove him from the classroom and start a disciplinary process immediately.
Larry Summers steps back from public commitments, ‘deeply ashamed’ by Epstein revelations
November 18, 2025 at 1:42 AM
Say something mildly controversial in class? In some states you're immediately suspended from teaching!
But at Harvard, if you show piss-poor judgment about a whole host of things, keep that schedule intact.
But at Harvard, if you show piss-poor judgment about a whole host of things, keep that schedule intact.
It's the Dorn Bump: if I know you, your book cover might appear on Last Week Tonight -- in 2014, Audrey Beardsley; in 2025, @joshshepperd.bsky.social
Who'll be next, in 2036??!!
Who'll be next, in 2036??!!
Had a great time consulting with the “Last Week Tonight with John Oliver” team over the past couple months, and they kindly gave my book a shoutout during the episode.
November 17, 2025 at 7:39 PM
It's the Dorn Bump: if I know you, your book cover might appear on Last Week Tonight -- in 2014, Audrey Beardsley; in 2025, @joshshepperd.bsky.social
Who'll be next, in 2036??!!
Who'll be next, in 2036??!!
Late on reposting this from @diinsilversmith.bsky.social
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November 17, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Late on reposting this from @diinsilversmith.bsky.social
Also: Novo coffee is good
November 17, 2025 at 4:20 AM
Also: Novo coffee is good
This happened to several of my grad school colleagues in the early 90s. Creepy at the very least.
If you are not in academia, you might not know this, but job interviews used to be held at conferences IN HOTEL ROOMS. Women candidates in a hotel room alone with often all-male committees. People sitting on beds! The horror stories I've heard.
I thing I sometimes thing about is that university departments were still doing job interviews in hotel rooms in the mid aughts
November 16, 2025 at 10:30 PM
This happened to several of my grad school colleagues in the early 90s. Creepy at the very least.
If asked, my official opinion is, "You look great" or a variant. This is ethics and ontology, not a report.
November 16, 2025 at 7:31 PM
If asked, my official opinion is, "You look great" or a variant. This is ethics and ontology, not a report.
On plane back from ASHE. Spatial analysis panel this am went well, and three of us presenters were taking notes on e-ink tablets. One reMarkable, one Boox, one Kindle scribe.
November 14, 2025 at 9:30 PM
On plane back from ASHE. Spatial analysis panel this am went well, and three of us presenters were taking notes on e-ink tablets. One reMarkable, one Boox, one Kindle scribe.
Forget all the other posers: Only @thedailyshow.com's Troy Iwata understands the spirit of Bluesky in these troubling times.
Epstein-Trump Saga Gets 20K Pages Longer & Megyn Kelly Splits Hairs on Pedophilia | The Daily Show
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November 14, 2025 at 4:26 AM
Forget all the other posers: Only @thedailyshow.com's Troy Iwata understands the spirit of Bluesky in these troubling times.
Mayo is disgusting. DO NOT REPEAT THIS INSIGHT
November 12, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Mayo is disgusting. DO NOT REPEAT THIS INSIGHT
Southwest baggage agent being kind to a family that stepped up to bag drop without getting bag tags first. She didn’t brusquely redirect them to a kiosk. The rest of us have to wait maybe an extra 2 minutes
November 12, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Southwest baggage agent being kind to a family that stepped up to bag drop without getting bag tags first. She didn’t brusquely redirect them to a kiosk. The rest of us have to wait maybe an extra 2 minutes
Insight/clarity on my ride this morning. Wrote it down when I got home.
Okay, can I stop thinking for the rest of today?
Okay, can I stop thinking for the rest of today?
November 11, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Insight/clarity on my ride this morning. Wrote it down when I got home.
Okay, can I stop thinking for the rest of today?
Okay, can I stop thinking for the rest of today?
I'm honestly surprised Gwyneth Paltrow didn't get there first.
(TMC is talking about cosmetic face masks.)
(TMC is talking about cosmetic face masks.)
You buy a face mask for a toddler you pretty much deserve whatever the stupid trillionaires have planned for all of us.
November 11, 2025 at 5:58 PM
I'm honestly surprised Gwyneth Paltrow didn't get there first.
(TMC is talking about cosmetic face masks.)
(TMC is talking about cosmetic face masks.)