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The Church Task Believers 7 May 2013 | 06:57 am
I watched single-taskers this morning. Stopped at an intersection in a university town, an ambulance, blaring siren and flashing lights, was trying to get through the clog of traffic, but no one in a ...
The system design is not our fault. Its perpetuation is our problem. 26 Apr 2013 | 06:00 am
I often tell American educators that if we are succeeding with a third to a half of our students, it is only because our educators are trying so hard. The system, after all, was designed and built wit...
All the "good people" 8 Mar 2013 | 11:26 pm
"And right then I knew that I was tired of good people, that I had had all the good people I could take." - Ta-Nehisi Coates What are we willing to tolerate in our schools? Which behaviors are we wil...
Kurt Eisner and Aaron Swartz and the Freedom of Information 16 Jan 2013 | 03:03 am
There's a famous bit of history from 1914. It's called "the blank cheque telegram," and it was sent by the German Imperial Chancellor, Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg to the Austrian ambassador in Berli...
Who will bring the fight for children to the here and now? 11 Jan 2013 | 04:32 am
Perhaps I was born to be a revolutionary. Perhaps. At least I know I was born to be uncomfortable with the world as it is, and that is where revolutions begin - discomfort, dissatisfaction, perhaps d...
Must IRBs Crack Down on Educational Researchers? 8 Jan 2013 | 10:07 pm
Where is the look at “side effects” so essential to the “medical model?” “There really is no “science” in educational research, nor should there be. To do scientific studies we need to be able to act...
Christmas, Zombies, the Common Core, Neoliberalism, and Democratic Voice 3 Jan 2013 | 01:25 am
On the F train on Christmas Eve my spousal equivalent, born and bred in the Protestant American heartland, turned to me and said, "I'm the only blond in this car." "Probably on this train," I answered...
a brief twitter conversation on our testing culture... 21 Dec 2012 | 08:42 pm
Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE On a Thursday night a mathematics teacher from around Vancouver was looking for sympathy on Twitter... She said: What do you do when a student s...
when voices are lost... 17 Dec 2012 | 08:39 pm
"It's a problem that can be solved with more caring. I don't think it's a problem that can be solved with more security." - Bill Bond - school safety specialist at the National Association of Secondar...
of loss and anger and memory on a rainy winter day 16 Dec 2012 | 01:22 am
I am watching the rain fall on a chill winter's day, and I am thinking. Yesterday morning I had the joyous opportunity to play with letters and words with kindergarten kids in three different schools...
