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Tufts University: new “gap year” service initiative!
Tufts University is starting a new program for incoming first-year students where they can spend a year after high school doing a year of service domestically or internationally before starting their freshman year of classes the next year! http://www.tuftsdaily.com/news/tufts-officially-launches-pre-matriculation-service-program Update … Continue reading
Posted in Higher education
Tagged Alan Khazei, City Year, gap year, service learning, Study abroad, Tufts University, Tulane, year of service
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Giving Tuesday: three suggestions
In the spirit of Black Friday, Small Business Saturday, and Cyber Monday, the Tuesday after Thanksgiving is designated Giving Tuesday–a day set aside for supporting non-profits that are doing important work in the community. Here are three non-profits that particularly … Continue reading
(Positive) Actions Have Consequences (Too!)
When working in a high-needs school (or, I’d guess, any school, for that matter), educators are trained to help students connect actions to consequences: “Well, you chose to make that rude comment in the middle of class to your classmate, … Continue reading
Posted in CIty Year, Leadership
Tagged City Year, education, empowerment, Leadership, middle school, school as prison
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“Knowing about” vs. “engaging with” people with different income levels
The Washington Post released an article this weekend about “super zips”–zip codes with very high median incomes and education levels–with a particular focus on super zips in the D.C. area. Having grown up in an affluent and very well-educated community … Continue reading
Posted in Personal Experiences
Tagged affluence, Income, mission trips, Poverty, service trips, super zip, Washington Post, ZIP code
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ExploringTheMathTwitterBlogosphere
There is an online initiative for math educators to connect more closely online and share ideas and successes and failures: ExploringTheMathTwitterBlogosphere. I am no longer in the classroom as a math teacher, but I’ll participate anyway! I currently work for … Continue reading
State class-size requirements: unintended consequences
There is a voter-approved constitutional amendment in Florida that limits the number of students in (core) classes. Districts are fined for each class that is over the limit. For middle school, the limit is 22 students per class. On the … Continue reading
Posted in Education
Tagged class size, education policy, Florida, incentives, Student–teacher ratio, unitended consequences
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“The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing ….”
The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world’s problems. — Mahatma Ghandi Here is a venn diagram that summarizes my thinking about this quote. Imagine another large … Continue reading
Posted in Leadership, Uncategorized
Tagged Ghandi, graph, most of the world's problem, quote, venn diagram
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Scholars and “outreach”
This summer, the American Mathematical Society released an article arguing for mathematicians to focus only on academics and research while in graduate school and post-doc programs. Essentially, the idea is that outreach (defined in the article as increasing representation of … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Higher education
Tagged 20% time, 80000 hours, Academia, American Mathematical Society, Graduate school, Outreach, post-doc, research, science
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Airplanes and objectivity
My most recent flight was at nighttime. I was sitting in a window seat a bit behind the wing. On the rear side of the wing almost at the tip was a very bright flashing light–the light you might see … Continue reading
Posted in Leadership, Personal Experiences
Tagged airplane, Bertrand Russell, light, observer, philosophy
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Having New Eyes 