Weekly Notes: GREAT Blog discovery, Emerson quotes, Self-Defense, and Religious “Evidence”
I recently discovered an amazing blog by David Cain. It’s called Raptitude.com (the name comes from a quote by Albert Einstein: “He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.”—AMAZING. I recommend perusing his “best of” posts.). I don’t agree with everything […]
New York Times Debate on Raising the Status of Teachers
I read the New York Times excellent collection of comments from experts on the question of how we can change the teaching profession. Here are are some great points I gleaned:“…factory-era policies… treat teachers like interchangeable parts…Most school districts can’t distinguish their highest-performing teachers from their lowest; wrongly, they act as though all teachers are […]