“Stop Meeting Students Where They Are” <— A Fascinating Thesis
What Is The Source Of The Crime Decline In 2025?
“The Age Of De-Skilling”
“The hard part is deciding, without nostalgia and inertia, which skills are keepers and which are castoffs. None of us likes to see hard-won abilities discarded as obsolete, which is why we have to resist the tug of sentimentality. Every advance has cost something. Literacy dulled feats of memory but created new powers of analysis. […]
“Move Fast And Break Nothing” – On Waymo’s Success (So Far)
The Promise And Peril Of Design Thinking
Dartmouth President: Make Decisions Based On Evidence, Not Politics
Is Creativity A Balm For Depression?
Could Gatsby Be Black? The Surprising Case
“I couldn’t, and still can’t, endorse the confident assertion that Jay Gatsby is Black. What I do claim is that Jay Gatsby is unraced.”
“The Case For Sleepovers”
“Children can benefit from them for a couple of reasons. For one thing, sleepovers provide an experience, like trick-or-treating, when the power balance between grown-ups and children can shift in the latter’s favor for the simple reason that parents don’t have the stamina to keep up with (or even stay awake for) kids’ antics. Feeling […]