The Polls, the Press, and All the Ways the Information Loop Goes Wrong
The Polling frenzy In the wake of the Democratic Party changing candidates there has been a frenzy of polls and press releases on the pol...
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Education is one of the Trump campaign's important positions Until November 9, 2016, I never imagined there would be any reason to co... -
Education can't solve economic inequality When my guru forwarded Nick Hanauer 's article in The Atlantic , " Better Schools W... -
Critical Thinking skills I have to preface this post by revisiting " critical thinking skills "--that phrase used by university pr... -
Tense versus aspect Some languages do not have verb tenses. The English language has only one tense: the simple past tense, also known ... -
I asked a version of this question on Quora , naively and mistakenly assuming that I would launch a groundswell of support to stop people... -
"I might've fallen for that when I was fourteen and a little more green But it's amazing what a couple of years can mean ... -
"The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively deba... -
Do Not presume I hope I have made it clear that I have not lived up to my own recommendation that teachers should avoid irony. The bes... -
The absolute truth I spent a career telling university students that if they encountered someone who claimed to know “The Truth,” they sh... -
A Tragic Hero? Bernie Madoff died Wednesday , April 14, 2021, while serving a 150-year prison sentence. It might grate to see Madoff descri...