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Review of “Off The Mark” by Schneider and Hutt (with reflections from a college where grading remains unchanged)

Jack Schneider and Ethan Hutt have written a very thoughtful book on a perennial topic that deserves our renewed attention, titled Off The Mark: How Grades,...

Thank You Lisa Smulyan

A thank-you letter to Lisa Smulyan, who taught me as an undergraduate in the Education Program at Swarthmore College, in celebration of her retirement.

My Response to Miss Manners on Professors and First Names

This morning I happened to see a Washington Post headline by advice columnist Miss Manners that caught my attention:

Advice on Open Access Book Publishing

A friend of mine who works at another Hartford-area academic institution asked me for advice about open-access book publishing. Here’s what I told them:

Reflections on Teaching Educ 350: Writing the Essay Assigned to My Students

When assigning the final essay in our Educ 350: Teaching and Learning course at Trinity College, I decided to place myself in the students’ role and also wri...

Teaching Interviewing with Annette Lareau, Listening to People

While teaching undergraduates over the past twenty years, I’ve relied heavily on the work of sociologist Annette Lareau, author of Unequal Childhoods, to hel...

Student Coauthors and Collaborative Scholarship

A colleague recently asked me how I decide whether to add students as co-authors of a scholarly publication. This topic matters a great deal across academia,...

Facing the Mirror: Writing the Essay Assigned to My Educ 350 Students

This semester I co-taught Educ 350: Teaching and Learning with Kyle Evans, visiting assistant professor in mathematics. We guided nine Trinity students on de...

AERA 2019 presentation: How Can Data Visualization Improve our Communication of Educational Research?

Judith Kafka and Janelle Scott invited me and other panelists to participate in a Presidential Session on Data Visualization at the American Educational Rese...

NCPH 2019 Digital Public History Lab: Build Your Own Public History Story Map

The National Council on Public History held its annual meeting here in Hartford, Connecticut, and organizers invited me to participate in their half-day hand...

Friendly advice for your history panel presentation

As another round of academic conferences approaches on my spring calendar, I’m updating my friendly advice for panelists who invited me to serve as their com...

Migrating from WordPress to Jekyll remote-theme and GitHub Pages

Earlier this year I took the plunge, and migrated my personal website from the Trinity College WordPress platform http://commons.trincoll.edu/jackdougherty t...

Teaching Race and Education in the Archives

When I first began to teach educational history in the early 1990s, as a TA for Carl Kaestle at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, he taught me the value o...

Your Dean Favors ‘Experiential Liberal Arts’: Now What?

This op-ed essay by Jack Dougherty and Megan Faver Hartline was published online by the Campus Compact of Southern New England (CCSNE) on January 28, 2019 at...

Finding My 1999 Final Report: Metropolitan Milwaukee and Federal Educational Policy, 1945-present

My friend Sherman Dorn saw a reference to an unpublished report I wrote two decades ago, and asked me to send him a copy. Although I haven’t even thought abo...

Updated: How to Digitally Record and Transcribe an Interview

One of my most popular posts, originally published in November 2013, and updated October 2019:

Updated: How to Customize YouCanBook.me for Appointment Slots

One of the most popular posts that I originally wrote in December 2012 was the tutorial below on customizing the YouCanBook.me calendar service to display ap...

Teaching How to Avoid Plagiarism

Tennyson O’Donnell, Director of Trinity’s Writing Center, asked several of us to join him this semester on ways to address plagiarism with “less policing and...

Tough Questions to Ask about Trinity edX

This essay expands on themes raised in my earlier presentation, “Lessons Learned from Teaching MOOCs at Liberal Arts Colleges: Reflections on Data Visualizat...

Tonight’s Educ 300 Class: Past and Present Activism on Anti-Immigration Policies

Dear students in Educ 300: Educ Reform Past & Present

Writing Race and Education History on the Web

Thanks to Brian Croxall, Digital Humanities Librarian at Brown University, for inviting Matt Delmont (Arizona State University), Esther Cyna (with Ansley Eri...

Pathways to Teaching with Trinity students and alumni, Wed Oct 5th, 2016

[](http://commons.trincoll.edu/jackdougherty/files/2016/09/Pathways-2016-virtual-physical-panel-e1475718108343.jpg)Both virtual (via video conference) and ph...

Friendly advice for your history conference panel

As summer ends, the fall academic conference season begins. This time of year I find myself writing the same email to panelists for whom I’ve been assigned t...

Wanted: Trinity students with bikes for short video, Sept 24th

Hartford school orientations with Trinity Educ 200 students

Trinity Educ 200 orientation with coordinator Erin Doyle (3rd from left) at ELAMS.

Trinity Pre-Orientation Cyclists Stop by to Chat

Ken Krayeske and Joe Barber invited me to ride with the Trinity Pre-Orientation cyclists this year, but those plans fell apart when I injured my hand earlier...

Collaborative Annotation webinar with Michelle Herbert and Hypothes.is

Teaching Inequality with Standardized Test Data

Pairs of students commented on inequality data patterns in a shared Google Document

Reliable Wifi Comes to my Corner of McCook

Thank you Trinity IT network crew!

Color and Money First-Year Seminar with Jasmine Gentry

First-Year Seminar Mentor Jasmine Gentry ‘17 leads our class in our Admissions simulation

Writing and Publishing in the Digital Age discussion at Wesleyan University

Writing and Publishing in the Digital Age

Writing Educational History in the Digital Age at AERA 2015

This morning I’m pleased to join historians Ansley Erickson and Natalia Mehlman Petrzela on “Writing Educational History in the Digital Age: Crafting Your Re...

Web Writing book published by U of Michigan Press

My co-editor Tennyson O’Donnell and I are proud to announce the publication of our open-access volume, Web Writing: Why and How for Liberal Arts Teaching and...

How the CT Mirror hackathon taught me to be a student again

The clock had run out. At 2:30pm, our team was supposed to be heading to the downstairs auditorium to present our digital product to the panel of judges, but...

Civil Rights History Harvest at Sheff 25th Anniversary

Mentoring Session: Research Strategies for Historians in the Digital Age

prepared for American Educational Research Association Division F (History)

Now online: 1,582 pages from FBI on Black Panther Party in Connecticut, courtesy of the National Archives

Image from Center for Contemporary Culture, Hartford Public Library

CT Mirror gets it right — then wrong — with our Sheff data visualizations

Students in the Cities Suburbs & Schools seminar at Trinity College and I had the privilege of designing online data visualizations with CT Mirror journa...

Pathways to Teaching discussion with recent Trinity Alumni on Tuesday, Oct 22nd at 6:30pm in Rittenberg Lounge

Come listen and learn from recent Trinity alumni who followed different pathways to teaching on Tuesday October 22nd, 2013 from 6:30-7:30pm in Rittenberg Lou...

Writing History in the Digital Age published in print (for sale) and online (free)

The University of Michigan Press shared this announcement today:

Finishing up one book while launching another

This is not an example of good timing, but I’m learning that there are some things over which we have no control. Over the past few days, eagle-eyed co-edito...

Final Reflections from One Week One Tool: The Blur of Days 4-5

Believe me, there was intent to blog about One Week | One Tool each day, but the last two blurred together in my mind. As we approached the public launch fin...

Metaphorical learning moments at One Week One Tool, Day 3

Exasperated team member Amrys Williams, OWOT Day 3, by Brian Croxall

My Peggy Olson learning moment at One Week One Tool, Day 2

Peggy Olson from “Mad Men” (via WikiMedia)

Learning Moments at One Week One Tool 2013, Day 1

This week I’m one of twelve participants at One Week One Tool, a National Endowment for the Humanities summer institute hosted by the Center for History and ...

Questions for Maize Books at University of Michigan Press

Maize photo: Wikimedia/Sam Fentress

Trinity students discuss writing with ConnecticutHistory.org

Presentation for EPS 2013 Conference at UW-Madison

Michael Fultz, my grad school advisor.

New video: Fionnuala Darby-Hudgens ’13 testifies on senior thesis at CT Capitol

Fionnuala Darby-Hudgens, screenshot from CT-N

Practicing what I preach with writing op-ed essays

After coaching my Cities Suburbs & Schools seminar on <a href=”http://commons.trincoll.edu/jackdougherty/2012/11/08/op-ed/>how to write op-ed essay...

Video on Individualized Degree Program (IDP) for Adult Learning

During my past decade at Trinity, several highly-motivated adult students have enrolled in my undergraduate classes through the IDP program, which raised the...

Four Publishing Models for Peer-Reviewed Digital Monographs

Sarah Manekin invited me and others to contribute to a workshop on “Researching, Writing and Publishing History in the Digital Age” for graduate students in ...

Writing History and Open Access Week

Yesterday afternoon, co-editor Kristen Nawrotzki and I, along with over thirty contributors, heard that the University of Michigan Press approved publication...

How (and why) to evaluate student writing as blind-review

At our small liberal arts college, whenever my students are working on a writing assignment on the same theme, I ask them to submit it in blind-review format...

Anvil, Authors, and Some (Un)Answered Questions

Today marked the web launch of Anvil Academic, which promises to reinvent the role of the publisher by raising the visibility of peer-reviewed digital humani...

Pathways to Teaching with Trinity Alumni, Tues Oct 23rd, 2012

Join us as we speak with recent Trinity alumni who followed different pathways to teaching on Tuesday October 23rd, 2012 from 7-8pm in Seabury S205. Guests w...

WordPress Workshop at THATCamp New England 2012

(Updated Oct 20th) Trinity College senior Fionnuala Darby-Hudgens and I have been invited to offer a workshop at THATCamp New England (The Humanities and Tec...

Connecting with student-taught ed policy course at Wesleyan

Wesleyan student co-organizers of ed policy course: Sydney Lewis, Catherine Doren, and Andrew Ribner

Join us for “Careers with a Conscience: Ed Studies Alumni in Non-Profits and Government,” Sunday April 15th at 6:30pm

Join us for a discussion, “Careers with a Conscience: Ed Studies Alumni in Non-Profits and Government,” on Sunday, April 15th, 2012, from 6:30-7:30pm, in Sea...

Common Hour Lecture by Jack Dougherty, Thursday Feb 23rd

**Scholarly Publishing with Open Access Web-Books:

“Pathways to Teaching” with Trinity alumni & students, Wed Oct 26, 2011

Join the Educational Studies Program for a discussion about different pathways to teaching on Wednesday October 26th, 2011,  from 6:30-8pm, in Terrace B and ...