By Rosemarie Emanuele. In math, a central role is played in the process of classifying numbers and objects to form groups, as when numbers are classified as whole numbers, integers, or complex numbers. I found myself thinking of this recently, and about my own journey into different academic self-classifications, as I watched the arrival of photographs of a celestial body formerly known as a planet, but always called “Pluto”. Read more...
By Rosemarie Emanuele. Economic theory, and the graphs that can illustrate it, indicate that people tend to prefer “mixed bundles” of goods to bundles consisting of only one good. For example, people tend to prefer dinners consisting of a protein, a starch, and a vegetable to dinners consisting of only one of these. Read more...
By Susan O'Doherty. In the morning, I posted one of his toddler pictures on my Facebook timeline, along with a brief appreciation. I heard from friends from many different parts and periods of my life, sending congratulations to Ben and reminding me of shared experiences over the years. Read more...
By Susan O'Doherty. I have wanted to produce and direct a film for some time now. I don't aspire to actually be a producer or director, but I am curious about aspects of filmmaking that I don't have experience with, and I am a hands-on learner. Read more...
By Susan O'Doherty. I used to work in a troubled, overcrowded inner city elementary school. Some terrific kids went there, but even the brightest and most industrious weren't learning much. There were usually 30-35 students in a class, with an overwhelmed, burned-out teacher. Read more...
By Susan O'Doherty. My first round of trying to "make it" as an actor — high school through my early thirties — was marked by a lack of ambition that a number of my teachers, colleagues and friends found troubling. Read more...
By Barbara Fister. I have cited danah boyd’s book It’s Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens whenever the subject of teens, social media, and privacy arise since it first came out. She convinced me that teens not only value privacy, they understand why it matters better than many adults do. Read more...
By Barbara Fister. When we talk about higher education, Americans have a tendency to focus on some imaginary place that looks a bit like Harvard, has absurdly luxurious climbing walls and lazy rivers, involves months of campus visits and an anxious wait for acceptance letters before plunging students into hundreds of thousands of dollars of debt. Read more...
By John Warner. Perhaps if you believe universities are fundamentally dysfunctional and deserve to go the way the dodo, you will write an op-ed for the New York Times as deliberately misleading as Kevin Carey’s latest effort, “The Fundamental Way That Universities Are an Illusion.” Read more...
By John Warner. As the mania for measuring learning “outcomes” seems to continue unabated, primarily through standardized metrics, I’m wondering what kind of tool we can develop to quantify the number and impact of “mind blowing” moments. Read more...
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