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Sunday, August 24, 2014

8-24-14 Curmudgucation Week

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Objectivity Is a Unicorn

Objectivity is a unicorn. It's inspiring to believe in, pretty to create pictures of. Some folks love the idea of objectivity so much that they dress up horses or try their hand at photoshop. But at the end of the day, it doesn't actually exist.Nevertheless, we continue to enshrine the idea of objectivity in places where it does not exist. Writers have repeatedly reminded us, for instance, that in


8-23-14 Curmudgucation Week
CURMUDGUCATION:Curmudgucation WeekSuperintendents Speak UpOn the first day of school, my wife's superintendent got choked up.He was delivering the usual kick-off speech, and she said he started to talk about testing and numbers and the students. He reminded his staff that students were not just test scores, not just a number, and that the work they did as teachers was so much more than could be me