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principles for ethical educational research
I’ve been thinking lately about the burden of speaking for others. Because I’m an educational researcher, and speaking for others is the heart of what we do. We walk into a classroom, watch some things...
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on hegemony and edible playdough
I spend a lot of time thinking about hegemony, a term descended from the Greek word for “leader.” Today we use the word to describe the exercise of power by a dominant group or groups over other...
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book review: Kenneth King’s Germs Gone Wild
summary: and you thought you saw journalists, scientists, and the government as dissemblers and obfuscators before…. At any given point in my life, I have a small handful of friends and acquaintances...
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neutral as in ‘Grandpa’s arsenal,’ not as in ‘Switzerland’
Image by Joe Salmon, taken from http://www.uiiu.co.nz/neutral.html, sort of without permission so I hope he's ok with it. I’m a fist-shaking, bleeding-heart, critical pedagogy, politiciany sort of guy....
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Fred Meijer dies. Relatedly, Meijer was my first employer.
I just read that Frederik Meijer, the chair of the Meijer retail chain that stretches across a cluster of five Midwestern states, has died at age 91. When I was 16, I got a job working as a bagger at...
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did you know Obama is literally Hitler?
You know, conservatives have had a lot of fun depicting President Obama as a modern-day Hitler. Here’s how Thomas Sowell put it back in 2008: To find anything comparable to crowds’ euphoric reactions...
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don’t ask me to withhold judgment of dharun ravi: a response to danah boyd &...
danah boyd and John Palfrey would like us to stop bullying Dharun Ravi. Dharun Ravi, you may remember, is the young man whose Rutgers University dorm-mate, Tyler Clementi, committed suicide days after...
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President Obama (finally) stands up for gay marriage
Ok, so this happened. Obama’s televised statement came after two members of his administration voiced support for gay marriage. Vice President Joe Biden went first, on Sunday: And on Monday,...
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on supporting the needs of gifted learners
I’m the kind of guy who spent a lot of fifth grade secretly reading books in class instead of paying attention to the teacher. I earned good grades, took a few AP classes, and got a full-ride academic...
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Zoe Weil on humane education
Here’s a Tedx talk by Zoe Weil, the founder of the Institute for Humane Education: About halfway through her talk, Weil talks about a game she does with students that she calls “True Price.” The idea...
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