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I’ve been feeling stuck in abstraction, too removed from what often feels like “real” work—partly just from being in grad

Long but exciting week at the AERA conference in NYC. I’ve had a cold for the last several weeks so

Heard Diane Ravitch speak at Vanderbilt yesterday. As usual, I was impressed with her work and found myself agreeing with

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The Washington Post the other day posted an insightful (if brief) discussion of multiple choice tests by Terry Heick. In it, the

Last week the University of Rochester announced a very interesting update to the famous “Marshmallow Study”. In the original study,

A new study out of the University of Chicago tracks “math anxiety” in early elementary students. Interestingly, they found that

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Here‘s a neat opinion piece from The NYTimes about a new way to recruit K-12 teachers. While the “how” is

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Here I post my latest education-related observations and interests. Have a news article or a book you think I should

Thanks to myriad online resources such as Khan Academy and ever-simpler ways to digitize everything, classroom teachers are increasingly able

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Spring is winding down and I’m starting to get requests for summer work, particularly test prep. This is a great