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Vacation Fiction

Maybe a better question is if you ever go offline? If you keep up with e-mail while on vacation, then the answer is no.
Vacations, for me, mean fiction. Nonfiction is too close to work. More...
5 Rules for Being Wicked Awesome On a Panel

How I Retreat and Regroup
For the last five years or so I've been taking myself on solitary writing retreats at the beginning of every summer. Usually, I have some kind of conceptual problem that I have to solve and that requires both direct contemplation and general rumination while I'm doing other things, but not interrupted by household obligations or interactions even with my beloved spouse. More...
What I'm Reading This Week: May 20, 2019
All of a sudden, it’s summer on my campus and to officially mark the launch of “summer,” it hit 84 degrees in Boston yesterday. More...
Stop Surveilling Students
By John Warner. Spying on students is not conducive to their learning, their emotional development or anything else we wish for them. And yet, it's becoming ubiquitous. More...
Making Sense of Metrics
By John Warner. Some preliminary thoughts after a conference on finding a better way to measure institutions and learning. More...
Why Do Schools with Similar Student Profiles Have Very Different Graduation Rates?
By Steven Mintz. The study has some limitations. It focuses only on first-time, full-time students, excluding the part-time and community college transfer students who make up a sizable proportion of students at broad access institutions. More...