Aug 23, 2013

Someone snatched my mittens

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Here is a story I heard in the cafeteria yesterday. A little girl stands in a school hallway, crying. “What happened?” – asks the teacher. ...
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Aug 11, 2013

При слове "менталитет" буду кусаться

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Предупреждаю по честному: если кто-то использует слово «менталитет» в деловом разговоре, я могу покусать. Во-первый потому, что само поняти...
Jul 19, 2013

Reverse Culture Schock

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Many years ago, when I was completing my stint at Notre Dame, we were warned of reverse cultural shock . It is a real phenomenon: people re...
Jul 6, 2013

КЦП и реформа педагогического образования

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Основная проблема российского педагогического образования лежит за пределами самого педагогического образования. Довольно незначительная ч...
Jul 2, 2013

Putin’s Southern Strategy

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After losing significant political support by a portion of liberal intelligentsia (especially in the capitals), Putin’s party has decided t...
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Jun 19, 2013

Возвращение

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Вначале немного об этом блоге. Начал я его в 2006, когда стал директором отделения подготовки педагогов в университете Северного Колорадо, ...
Jun 14, 2013

Goodbyes

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Saying goodbyes is an interesting experience. One rule seems to be - De profectus nil nisi bonum . Even though it reminds eulogies at a fun...
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Jun 7, 2013

Chosen peoples

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Both Russians and Americans cherish the illusions of being special, different from other peoples. Let’s be fair, not just these two. Simila...
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May 31, 2013

Campbell’s Law

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Donald T Campbell, a well-respected social scientist, came up with this pessimistic law : “The more any quantitative social indicator is u...
May 16, 2013

The Bad Apple theory

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Over many years, I have seen this particular theory in action many times, in different kinds of communities. It usually afflicts strong one...
May 9, 2013

Big data and big-enough data

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Big data is information that is too big to process by any kind of manual data analysis tools. For example Walmart has databases equivalent...
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May 3, 2013

The unchecked truth

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At the heart of many conflicts is a belief about the nature of truth. Two or more people will construct their version of “what happened.” I...
Apr 26, 2013

Moscow

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Moscow is a strange city. Like New York, it offers endless variety of people, most of them walking too fast to care about you and whether y...
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Apr 12, 2013

Rhode Island State University

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Very few things are more annoying than frivolous renaming. They tend to have a tint of change without a substance. Yet in some cases, name ...
Apr 5, 2013

Thanks for showing up

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Last night, at the (Ad)mission Accomplished ceremony , I was somewhat overwhelmed by a wave of gratitude to those faculty and staff members...
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Mar 29, 2013

Time to transition

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By necessity, I have to switch to more of a clean-up mode, trying to finish the unfinished, to put in writing what I know. There are little...
Mar 22, 2013

Don’t worry, you will be fine

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Over the course of the last couple of weeks, many greetings and best wishes came my way. Many thanks to all! Sometimes a little worry would...
Mar 8, 2013

Leaving

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The news is definitely out; I am leaving RIC at the end of this school year. I have accepted position at the Higher School of Economics , i...
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Mar 3, 2013

The Value-Added Scandal

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A scandal broke out at the 2013 AACTE conference . A session brought together several proponents of the value-added model of evaluating eff...
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Feb 22, 2013

Scholarship at a teaching college

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Institutions like RIC face a dilemma. On one hand, we are a teaching college. Despite a few kinks, the culture of quality teaching and advi...
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Feb 15, 2013

Selling student teaching and the communicative ecosystem

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For the last two years, we have been worrying about student teaching placements. The new teacher evaluation system is making it harder with...
Feb 8, 2013

Things to do during storm

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To do  Watch bad movies out of Red Box  Play board and/or video games  Snack  Drink tea, then wine, then whisky  Look out the window...
Feb 1, 2013

Peripheral awareness

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I don’t know much about most of the things that are going on in our School. Each course is a little novel, with its plot and character deve...
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Jan 25, 2013

The Age of Flexibility

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Our programs developed in the era of oversupply of candidates. At stake were both quality and crowd control. We designed rules and policies...
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Jan 18, 2013

Pareto efficiency and charter schools

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Is there the right balance between charter and district schools? It is raised over and over again across the country where legislators of d...
Jan 12, 2013

Tinkerers

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This last week, I had some chance to work through a few computer-related problems. One was designing a form in Word, another had to do with...
Jan 4, 2013

The rule of rules

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Here is an existential question for you: how do you know a policy exists? In what sense does it exist? Does it exist because we have been ap...
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Dec 21, 2012

12/21/12 A.D.

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Driving through the rain, in a flash, I suddenly saw myself looking at a Christmas present,                                             ...
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Dec 14, 2012

Partnership markets

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Rhode Island is a small state, but it is rich in various non-profit, academic organizations, government and businesses. The RI Foundation’s ...
Dec 7, 2012

Goofing off

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At lunch, people complain about cold. That’s what we do, because Paula and Kim are trying to enforce the no-shoptalk rule during lunch. So, ...
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Nov 30, 2012

Join the teaching profession, become a selfish bastard

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TEIL, the Teacher Education Innovation Lab is one of my favorite parts of this job. It is very low-key; we just come and talk, but it alway...
Nov 16, 2012

Yes, you can go home again

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Strange things are brought back from trips home. I am not sure if Thomas Wolfe’s truism, you can't go home again, is really true. He imp...
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