“No intelligent idea can gain general acceptance unless some stupidity is mixed in with it” ― Fernando Pessoa Sometimes it’s the things that are not talked about that echo the loudest. Case in point, this week reigning State Superintendent… Read More ›
Education
HOW DO WE CHOOSE?
“Sometimes, because we use the same words, we assume we mean the same thing” ― Ahdaf Soueif, The Map of Love I continue to read extensively about America’s ongoing battle with history – the stories we tell and how… Read More ›
THREE STIKES NORMALLY SIGNIFY AN OUT
“To know what people really think, pay attention to what they do, rather than what they say.” ― Descartes Those of us who are parents are likely familiar with the strategy of repeatedly reframing a question until you get… Read More ›
A LITTLE SMOKE OFTEN MEANS A FIRE
“No man chooses evil because it is evil; he just mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.” ― Mary Wollstonecraft Hope y’all had a fantastic holiday. Here in Tennessee, the weather couldn’t have been better and it was… Read More ›
SCHWINNING AGAIN
“All knowledge that is about human society, and not about the natural world, is historical knowledge, and therefore rests upon judgment and interpretation. This is not to say that facts or data are nonexistent, but that facts get their importance… Read More ›
A HUMBLE APOLOGY
“One study of twenty years of data in the United States concluded that “the preferences of the average American appear to have only a minuscule, near-zero, statistically non-significant impact upon public policy.”4” ― Geoff Mulgan, Big Mind: How Collective Intelligence… Read More ›
OF SEAHORSES, AND OTHER DISTRACTIONS
“I probably didn’t share his feelings – he hoped, really, that I didn’t – but he was no longer interested in socialising; in fact, increasingly he found other people positively bewildering. The interesting ones are like islands, he said: you… Read More ›
DESPITE ALL THE TALKING, NOBODY IS TALKING
“There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle.” ― Alexis de Tocqueville My writing has been a little erratic this summer and for that, I apologize. As we emerge… Read More ›
OFF SEASON MOVES
“In a word, I was too cowardly to do what I knew to be right, as I had been too cowardly to avoid doing what I knew to be wrong.” ― Charles Dickens, Great Expectations The education world is… Read More ›
COMMON CORE, LIVE AND THRIVING IN TENNESSEE
“Childhood is a time of curiosity and peril, and nobody comes out of it unscarred.” ― Liz Phair, Horror Stories: A Memoir It was time. Twelve years and 177K miles after purchase, my 2005 Saturn Vue gave up the… Read More ›
Dad Gone Wild 