I am a policy wonk. It is simply intrinsic to who I am. And right now the policy issue foremost in my mind is inequity in education. I believe that the COVID19 crisis has offered us an incredible opportunity to rethink how we educate kids. This is an almost incomprehensible rare opportunity to start from… Continue reading It’s the end of the world as we know it. And maybe that is a good thing.
Category: Blatherings
The gauntlet has been dropped
I have been toying with the idea of creating a new blog since the world shut down in March 2020. We were obviously living in historic times and the psychologist in me saw a perfect opportunity for an experiment. We know memory changes over time. We have seen it time and time again when people… Continue reading The gauntlet has been dropped
What’s this now?
I first encountered the idea of a commonplace book shortly after college when I encountered E.M. Forster’s Commonplace book in a meander through the library. I was unfamiliar with the concept of commonplace books, and as this was before the interwebs, it took some digging to understand what I was looking at. I have a bunch of… Continue reading What’s this now?
The World we live in 