Author Archives
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HALF BAKED IDEAS, AND HIDDEN AGENDAS
“Simple people always reduce everything to their own simple measure.” ― Norah Lofts, The Concubine Last year, the Tennessee General Assembly passed legislation that made it possible for local school board races to be partisan affairs. Locally, this year,… Read More ›
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AN EASTER MISSIVE FROM DAD GONE WILD
“Life is a hurricane, and we board up to save what we can and bow low to the earth to crouch in that small space above the dirt where the wind will not reach. We honor anniversaries of deaths by… Read More ›
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ONCE MORE INTO THE ECHO CHAMBER
“I don’t like a kind of workshop that is about editing–I don’t want to sit there and be an editor. I don’t want to tell someone how to “fix” a poem.” ― Natasha Trethewey It was an interesting weekend… Read More ›
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AN UNPARALLELED TENURE
“The world has always belonged to the stronger and will belong to them for many years to come. Men only respect those who make themselves respected. Whoever becomes a lamb will find a wolf to eat him.” ― Vilfredo Pareto… Read More ›
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THE CART BEFORE THE HORSE
“What am I? The data? The process that generates it? The relationships between the numbers?” ― Greg Egan, Permutation City One of the most discussed topics in education these days is teacher attrition and the increased difficulty of retaining… Read More ›
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BOLD LEADERSHIP, BIG BETS
“People see what they want to see and what people want to see never has anything to do with the truth.” ― Roberto Bolaño, 2666 Happy April fools Day! I had a whole post planned out in honor of… Read More ›
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SO MANY PROBLMS, SO LITTLE TIME
“You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of… Read More ›
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A LACK OF HONEST CONVERSATION
“Having once been so high, humanity fell so low. What had once been dedicated to the soul was now dedicated to the sale.” ― John Kennedy Toole This one today maybe a little shorter than usual. Not because there… Read More ›
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WHAT IS ALL REALLY ABOUT?
“As for cognitive empathy, there is, it appears, no shortage of people in the world who can unwittingly offend, misunderstand and steamroller over the delicate signals of others, all while maintaining the self-perception that they are unsurpassedly sensitive to subtle… Read More ›
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THE CURIOUS CASE OF A $100 MILLION INVESTMENT IN EDUCATION COSTING $230 MILLION, AKA MATH IS HARD
“But we are living in a skeptical and, if I may use the phrase, a thought-tormented age; and sometimes I fear that this new generation, educated or hypereducated as it is, will lack those qualities of humanity, of hospitality, of… Read More ›
Dad Gone Wild 