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Chad Hermann is a writer, editor, blogger, husband, father, and freelance communication consultant living in Squirrel Hill.

He has no time for ideological purity, nor patience for political partisanship. He believes in sense and reason and calling 'em as he sees 'em.

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Tossing Your Committees

(or, getting the academic heave-hurl) Regular TRM readers may remember that back in March, I bestowed the Acronym of the Week (and Quite Possibly the Year) Award on Carnegie Mellon University for its Department Administrators’ Registrar Network...

Published Tue, Sep 09 2009 6:03 AM by Chad

Filed under: Carnegie Mellon, Education, Delirium
The President's ABCs

(and is) A wildly busy day that's not even close to over yet leaves me precious little time to write all the things I’d love to write here today, so let’s content ourselves with a couple of quick observations about today’s much ballyhoo...

Published Tue, Sep 09 2009 7:00 PM by Chad

Filed under: President Obama, Education, Delirium
Going Back

(to the future) And now for something a little lighter, a little brighter, a little more life-affirming than all these thoughts of men and women and the victims of violence in America... ...How about the promise, the possibility, the hope-springs-eternal...

Published Thu, Sep 09 2009 4:19 PM by Chad

Filed under: Education, Life
Wading Through Wisdom

(or, some thoughts on teaching, one night after returning to it) My mother was an elementary-school teacher for thirty years. My father was a high-school teacher for thirty years. All of their closest friends were either elementary-school or high-school...

Published Thu, Aug 08 2009 10:34 PM by Chad

Filed under: Education, Life, Teaching
Vo-Tech U

(in which students learn only to be employed) A few years ago, I read a by-turns fascinating and terrifying Chicago Tribune column that described how, on the first day of class in the University of Dayton’s Criminal Justice Studies program, incoming...

Published Wed, Aug 08 2009 12:57 AM by Chad

Filed under: Education
"Any Reasonable Employer Would Pounce"

(or laugh) A story from CNN, submitted without comment... Alumna sues college because she hasn’t found a job . For now.

Published Tue, Aug 08 2009 12:19 PM by Chad

Filed under: Education, Litigation, Nitwit Generation
The Reproduction of the Christ

(and the separation of church and sense) When I wasn’t spending a couple of hours in City Council chambers — more on that tomorrow — or trying desperately to do at least a half-dozen things on my ever-lengthening to-do list, I traded...

Published Mon, Jul 07 2009 7:50 PM by Chad

Filed under: University of Pittsburgh, Duquesne University, Education, Hypersensitivity
Sometimes a Great Example, Vol. 2

(nine hours in three days) For anyone in search of yet another example to prove that an obsession with standardized testing is both an affront and an impediment to the cause of actual education, look no farther than what’s been happening this week...

Published Wed, Mar 03 2009 12:10 PM by Chad

Filed under: Allderdice High School, Standardized Testing, Education

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