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The Bonus, the Bribe, and the Brilliant Mind
“I would replace the quality of sincerity with honesty, since one can hold a conviction sincerely without examining it, while honesty would require that one subject one’s convictions to frequent scrutiny.” ― Christopher Phillips, Socrates Cafe: A Fresh Taste of… Read More ›
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What Happens When Leadership Fears Transparency
“The world is full of people who will help you manufacture tornados in order to blow out a match.” — Shaun Hick In less than a week, Tennessee students will walk back into classrooms for a new school year…. Read More ›
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Silence, Settlements, and School Starts
“Life…is not a simple thread which is only extended in length, it is a large web or rather a network, from interval to interval, casts branches to the side in order to unite with networks of other order.” ― Jason… Read More ›
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💥 Just Like That, It Was Done: How MNPS Quietly Bought Silence for $6.5 Million
“I was thinking about stabbing myself in the face—not actually considering stabbing myself in the face, but thinking that it would be a physical expression of how I felt.” ― Catherine Lacey, Nobody Is Ever Missing Just like that,… Read More ›
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Buckle Up: Raising Kids and Raising Questions in Public Schools
“And right away her gaze went hard with the anger we always feel at the person who spoils our idea of ourself.” ― Susan Choi, Trust Exercise You’d think that after more than a decade of writing this blog, I’d… Read More ›
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America at 249, Me at 60
“Love and loss, are like a ship and the sea. They rise together. The more we love, the more we have to lose. But the only way to avoid loss is to avoid love. And what a sad world that… Read More ›
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Eyes Cast Backwards
“all these are but dreams and shadows; the shadows that hide the real world from our eyes.” ― Arthur Machen, The Great God Pan Much of this month has been spent traveling the byways and highways of the American South. The… Read More ›
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Core Beliefs at Play
“The more one pleases generally, the less one pleases profoundly.” ― Stendhal, Love Every discussion about public education policy centers on the belief that it is either a public good or a commodity. Is the system designed to benefit… Read More ›
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Summertime Doesn’t Always Mean Nuthin But Fun
“Don’t do it, Eleanor told the little girl; insist on your cup of stars; once they have trapped you into being like everyone else you will never see your cup of stars again; don’t do it; and the little girl… Read More ›
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Nary a Deviation From The Playbook
“The performance is over.” The audience got up. “It’s time to put on your fur coats and go home.” They looked round. But it turned out that there were no fur coats and no homes.” ― Donald Rayfield, Stalin and… Read More ›
Dad Gone Wild 