Sherman Dorn

Half a century ago, educational psychologist Gene Glass coined a term for research synthesis, meta-analysis: “the term is a bit grand, but it is precise” (Glass, 1976, p. 3).

Note: this first appeared as a column in the Arizona Daily Star (Tucson) January 8, 2026.

Inevitability is a common rhetorical ploy in education.

On November 26, Arizona State University featured in a Wall Street Journal article written by Elizabeth Collins, one of their national political reporters based in Phoenix, and Douglas Belkin, a Journal higher ed reporter.

On one of the social media platforms I visit, there was a set of threads recently on the science of reading and three-cuing, a now-disdained prompt for early readers having difficulty with a word.

In my social media feeds recently, I’ve seen debate over the decision by the American Federation of Teachers to partner with Microsoft, OpenAI, and Anthropic to open a National Academy for AI Instruction.

I write this from Seoul, at the end of a week-long stay that began for me with the International Conference on Education Research and is ending with reading the news that the U.S.

When I last wrote a blog entry, it was at the end of 2023.

A little more than five years ago, I traveled with my then-student Wooyeong Kim to the University of Maryland’s Hornbake Library.

I was in sixth grade when I first argued with a teacher about a math test.

In his presidential address to the (U.S.)