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  • Thanks to all who visited… 2012 in review

    The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: 600 people reached the top of Mt. Everest in 2012. This blog got about 10,000 views in 2012. If every person who reached the… Continue reading

  • Originally posted on it's about learning: Do we structure school in such a way that we truly promote and achieve that intricate balance between: 1) wanting to know and to understand and 2) keeping perspective that we have to be… Continue reading

  • Textimony 20121223

    In this loving struggle, death though certain has no sting; chance, no power; guilt, no blame; pain, no duration. Let-go violent force & obtain fortitude. Continue reading

  • Textimony 20121222

    Loving struggle lets-go the long labor of being recognized by others for what you can do & embraces the Great Work of being-open to another as who you can be. Continue reading

  • Social Class & Dividends for the Educational Industrial Complex

    Thanks to my ever vigilant colleague Carl Beck Sachs for pointing the article below out to me. I had seen it in my “topic alert:pedagogy” from the NYTimes, but did not know if I wanted to read it. I’m glad that… Continue reading

  • MOOCs as capital-biased technological change

    Last week my Twitter feed briefly turned into a kind of massively open online course about MOOCs, in response to this thoughtful critique by Aaron Bady of an earlier post by Clay Shirky advancing an optimistic view of the role that… Continue reading

  • There is no fiscal crisis. And macroeconomics is not a morality play.

    Nice overview of how things stand vis. the “fiscal cliff.” The Puritanism that surrounds how most people talk about debt–esp. government debt–really irritates and shows the lasting influence of Christian dogmatism on our sociocultural situation. Sometimes I cannot tell if… Continue reading