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The Culture of Bullying
I have never understood the culture of bullying. That is to say, I have never understood the idea of physically or emotionally torturing someone to the point at which their psyche cracks. That is what...
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How To Be Wrong
If there is one thing that I wish school had taught me at a young age, it is how to be better at being wrong. I feel that in this age of coddling children with participation awards and an everybody...
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The Psychology of Effort
The question I see most often searched that gets people to this website is some variation of “does effort matter?” or “is effort important?” which seems to cause alarm bells in my brain to ring out....
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Real Standardization
Standardization is one of those subjects that tends to bring out the worst in me when I feel like thinking about it and rolling it around in my mind. When most people think of this subject, they think...
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Over-education Depression
A recent study posits that having “too much education” can lead to problems with mental health later in life. In this instance, “over-education” is short hand for “having too much education for your...
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L.A. Schools + iPads = Obvious Problem?
A big news story recently concerns the use (and then confiscation) of quite a high number of iPads in numerous Los Angeles, CA school districts. Originally, stories appeared reporting on a relatively...
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An Insane Level Of Responsibility
Have you ever heard someone, usually in the act of staring down at you and rolling their eyes, say “just wait until you get out of school, then you’ll see real responsibility!” and then they scoff and...
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What’s Best For The Student
I don’t understand why this seems to be such an issue. I really don’t. Almost every news story I see talking about education involves one or more of the following: cheating, athletics, politics, the...
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With Apologies To Myself
It’s been about five months since I last wrote anything of length or substance. That is totally my fault. What it all comes down to, sadly, is something I’ve spent a good bit of time on this very site...
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Dealing With Dead Ends
I love mazes. I used to draw my own on giant desk pads and pray that I wasn’t leaving a twisted trail of dead ends in my wake as I moved from one corner of the paper to the other. I like running...
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