By Joshua Kim. This enthusiasm for 1:1 programs goes against the dominant edtech ethos of BYOD (bring-your-own-device). Educators, including edtech people (who are really just especially nerdy educators), tend to be suspicious of mandating a particular device. We believe in voting with our feet, in ecosystem diversity, and most of all in the power of our judgments. More...
Processing Manchester and Supporting Students
By Eric Stoller. For universities in the United Kingdom these are the moments when top level communications channels become essential conduits for support, resources, and a shared sense of sadness and resilience. Read more...
In Praise of Those Who Taught Us Well
By Margaret Andrews. His field? Folklore. It’s the study of people and cultures, particularly the beliefs and values of various groups that are expressed in rituals, myths, sayings, rhymes, games, art, customs, festivals, and jokes (among other things). More...
Aggressive Self-Rescue Part 1: The Organizational Version
By Margaret Andrews. Many years ago – and for many years – my family made an annual trip to Greenville Maine for a “week away from it all.” As part of the trip, we went on a whitewater rafting adventure down the Kennebec River. More...
Math Geek Mom: My Story (Reprise)
When I recently introduced a friend from college, who also spent formative years in our nation’s capital, to my politically involved husband, it was not long until the conversation turned to recent political events, leading to perhaps the best idea I have heard yet about how to solve the current strife. More...
Math Geek Mom: Heroine From New England
Many of us who study labor markets often classify jobs as “while collar” (after the shirts often worn with suits for some jobs), “blue collar” (for jobs that don’t require suits) and sometimes even “pink collar,” for jobs that are in traditionally female occupations, such as teaching, nursing or secretarial jobs. More...
Don’t Anger A Grandma
The Trump Administration’s latest travel ban is yet another controversial move to limit entry to the United States. Last week, the Supreme Court, which will wade into the issue in the next year, left clear that for now the ban could not be imposed on people who “…had a credible claim of a bona fide relationship with a person or entity in the United States.” More...
Math Geek Mom: Washington, D.C.
When my class wrote their “class prophecy” upon graduation, they did not imagine me as a Professor of either Math or Economics. Rather, they predicted that, at our 15-year reunion, I would be a U. S. Senator. More...
Math Geek Mom: An Upcoming Goodbye
In Statistics, we search for coefficients in regressions that indicate (directly or indirectly) how much a dependent variable changes in response to a change in an independent variable. In Calculus, we study how the dependent variable of a function changes in response to a change in the independent variable. More...
Breaking the Beauty Talk Cycle
I’ve been spending much time over the years thinking how to raise children with healthy body images within an image-obsessed culture that too often promotes unrealistic beauty ideals. It hasn’t been easy. Studies on the dangers of obesity abound. Yet, studies on the risks of body shaming are also plentiful. More...