Sherman Dorn Curriculum Vitae
Experience
University of South Florida, 1996-
Associate Professor (2002-), Department of Psychological and Social
Foundations, College of Education.
Assistant Professor (1996-2002).
Vanderbilt University, 1993-1996
Research Associate and Research Assistant Professor, Department of Special Education, Peabody College. Associate, John F. Kennedy Center for Research in Education and Human Development.
University of Delaware, 1992-1993
Visiting Assistant Professor, Educational Studies Department, College of Education.
Publications
Books
Dorn, Sherman. 1996. Creating the dropout: An institutional and social history of school failure. Westport, CT: Praeger.
Dorn, Sherman. 1996. A brief history of Peabody College. Nashville, TN: Peabody College of Vanderbilt University
Articles and Chapters
Dorn, Sherman. 2003. High-stakes testing and the history of graduation. Education Policy Analysis Archives 11, 1 (entire issue). Available on the World Wide Web: http://epaa.asu.edu/epaa/v11n1/
Dorn, Sherman. 2002. Public-private symbiosis in Nashville special education. History of Education Quarterly 32, 3 (Fall): 368-94. (refereed)
Dorn, Sherman. 2002. Reading the history of special education, in James Paul, Carolyn Lavely, Anne Cranston-Gingras, and Ella L. Taylor, eds., Rethinking professional issues in special education (pp. 279-99). New York: Ablex. (invited)
Dorn, Sherman. 2001. War may raise serious issues at home. Distributed to roughly 90 metropolitan daily newspapers in the United States and North America by the History News Service, September 19. Available online: http://www2.h-net.msu.edu/~hns/articles/recent/091901b.html
Dorn, Sherman. 2001. Comment on Ng's "Wealth redistribution, race, and southern public schools, 1880-1910." Education Policy Analysis Archives 9, 17 (entire issue). Available on the World Wide Web: http://epaa.asu.edu/epaa/v9n17.html
Dorn, Sherman. 2000. America Y2K: The obsolescence of educational reform. Education Policy Analysis Archives 6, 1 (entire issue). Available on the World Wide Web: http://epaa.asu.edu/epaa/v8n2.html (refereed)
Dorn, Sherman, and Erwin V. Johanningmeier. 1999. Dropping out and the military metaphor for schooling. History of Education Quarterly 39: 193-198. (research note)
Dorn, Sherman. 1998 The political legacy of school accountability systems. Education Policy Analysis Archives 6, 1 (entire issue). Available on the World Wide Web: http://epaa.asu.edu/epaa/v6n1.html (refereed)
Christensen, Carol, and Sherman Dorn. 1997. Competing notions of social justice and contradictions in special education reform. Journal of Special Education 31: 181-98. (refereed)
Dorn, Sherman, Douglas Fuchs, and Lynn S. Fuchs. 1996. An historical perspective on special education reform. Theory into Practice 35: 12-19. (refereed)
Dorn, Sherman. 1993. Origins of the "dropout problem." History of Education Quarterly 33: 353-373. (refereed
Invited papers
Richardson, Theresa, Barbara Shircliffe, and Sherman Dorn. 1999. Education and the Metropolis. Paper presented at the Florida Institute for Government Megacities Symposium (September 10, Tampa, Fla.).
Unpublished Papers and Presentations
Dorn, Sherman. 1999. The history of special education in Nashville, Tennessee, 1940-1990. Final report prepared for the U.S. Office of Special Education Programs.
Dorn, Sherman. 1999. How Research Gets Lost in Special Education. Paper prepared for presentation at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association. Available here in Microsoft Windows 97, WordPerfect, and Adobe Acrobat formats
Dorn, Sherman, and Douglas Fuchs. 1998. "The Lord Sent Cain and Abel": Heroic Myths in Special Education. Paper prepared for presentation at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association. Available here in Microsoft Word 97 format.
Dorn, Sherman. 1997. George Peabody College for Teachers, Race Relations, and Education. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the History of Education Society. Available here in .pdf or Microsoft Word 97 formats.
Dorn, Sherman. 1995. Measuring graduation: Beyond dropout statistics. (Unpublished paper.)
Dorn, Sherman. 1995. Triage in accountability: The Tennessee Value Added Assessment System. (Unpublished paper.)
Dorn, Sherman. 1995. Graduation patterns in the United States public use samples, 1940-1990: Reflections on microdata and history. Paper presented at the 20th Annual Meeting of the Social Science History Association (Chicago, IL).
Dorn, Sherman. 1994. High school graduation patterns in the U.S., 1940-1990. Paper presented at the History of Education Society Annual Meeting (Chapel Hill, NC).
Dorn, Sherman, Joseph Murphy, Doug Fuchs, and Lynn S. Fuchs. 1994. School site- based management in historical perspective. Paper presented at the 19th Annual Meeting, Social Science History Association (Atlanta, GA).
Grant Experiences
Associate Director, Consortium for Educational Research in Florida, Spencer Foundation, 2001-2003.
Evaluator, University of South Florida GEAR-UP project, U.S. Department of Education award P334A990560, 1999-2002.
Principal Investigator, Meaning-Centered Feedback: Effective Sidebar Writing Instruction for a Growing University, University of South Florida Instructional Development Grant, 1999.
Principal Investigator, History of Special Education in Nashville, Tennessee, 1940-90, Department of Education Award H023N60001, 1995-1999.
Project Staff, Systemic Change Organizing Reform Efforts (SCORE), Department of Education Award H023R20016 (Douglas Fuchs and Lynn S. Fuchs, Principal Investigators).
Project Staff, Responsible Reintegration in Reading, Department of Education Award H023C10086 (Douglas Fuchs and Lynn S. Fuchs, Principal Investigators).
Education
University of Pennsylvania
Ph.D., History, 1992
M.A., Demography, 1992
Advisor: Michael B. Katz. Dissertation title: Creating the dropout: An institutional and social history of school failure. Exam fields: U.S. history since the Civil War; U.S. social history; education and social structure.
Haverford College
B.A., History, 1987
Professional Associations
American Educational Research Association member.
History of Education Society member.
Editorial board member, Education Policy Analysis Archives.
Editorial board member, The Education Review.