Common Core Fears: Short Atlantic Reflections
From the article Suburbia and Its Common Core Conspiracy Theories: Many parents view the Common Core and the accompanying tests as a threat to their ability to keep their…
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Keep an Open Mind
I value – be it in leadership, teaching, or simple day-to-day interactions – sympathy and empathy. Understanding others is a cornerstone of compassion. And, I believe, how we…
Hold on, laptops may NOT be bad for learning
Around a month ago, a corner of my Twitterverse erupted with a study that indicated that laptops in the classroom discourage learning. Titled “The Pen is Mightier than the…
Comparing Teachers to Doctors
Not that we’re trying to do the apples to apples thing here. But I do wish society would give a bit more credit to the cognitive and physical…
The Role of Chance in Outcomes
Are the successes in my life a result of ability (the quality I produce) or chance? NPR kicked off a story about the Mona Lisa. It’s a popular…
The Probability of Being Replaced by a Robot
A new paper by by Carl Benedikt Frey and Michael A. Osborne (and reviewed on the Atlantic) takes a stab at assigning probability of professions being taken over by…
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