News Pass/fail was wrong in the spring, and it would also be wrong now 1 Dec 202030 Nov 2020 Note: A similar version of this blog post appeared in March. You can read it here. The argument that percolated in the spring semester is starting to gain traction again:…
News An open letter to families within the Mt. Lebanon School District 25 Nov 202015 Apr 2021 Hi everyone, Let's begin with the obvious: Roughly half of you are going to support the words you're about to read, and roughly half of you aren't. Roughly half of…
News An open letter to Scott Galloway 21 Jul 2020 Scott, Enough. Your peddling of doom -- and the worst example was your recent analysis suggesting that roughly 90 U.S. colleges and institutions could close because of coronavirus -- serves…
News NYU’s Scott Galloway: Dozens of U.S. colleges soon will perish 20 Jul 202019 Jul 2020 NYU business professor Scott Galloway is at it again. Less than two months after suggesting in a magazine story that coronavirus will cause dozens of U.S. colleges to close (an…
News K-12 online this year? Yes. Full stop. 17 Jul 202015 Apr 2021 If your community resembles the one in which I live, then you know there’s a fierce debate about whether the local K-12 school buildings should reopen next month to allow…
News Texas teacher slams state’s K-12 reopening plan: “Teachers are writing wills” 15 Jul 2020 Newsweek explores the anger and fear expressed by some K-12 teachers in Texas over the state’s plan to re-open all schools in the coming weeks. "It's pretty atrocious that in…
News What if the teachers bail? 13 Jul 202015 Apr 2021 The national conversation about whether K-12 schools should re-open next month or in September has principally focused on two items: the science about whether it's safe to re-open and the…
News How will your fall classes be delivered? 29 May 202029 May 2020 A simple poll to close out the week.
