Oct 21, 2013

Ежик в тумане

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Приближаюсь к трем месяцам работы в Вышке. До сих пор чувствовал себя как ежик в тумане – вот вдруг выплывет из тумана нога, потом и вся ло...
Oct 11, 2013

Indian summer on the Gulf of Finland

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The belated Indian summer: About a hundred of us from HSE are here, an hour away from St Petersburg, 10 minutes away from the Gulf of Finla...
Oct 2, 2013

Если вы такие умные, то почему не богатые?

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Наш коллега Исак Фрумин на последнем семинаре Института Образования задал вопрос – почему России не удается капитализировать на своем, по ...
Sep 21, 2013

A rainy day in the Manège

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It’s been raining non-stop for a week in Moscow; cold and windy, and our fall clothes are stuck somewhere in Riga. People around me are dro...
Sep 12, 2013

Бюрократия и коррупция

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В отличие от большинства людей, я совершенно нормально отношусь к бюрократии, к различным правилам, требованиям, регламентам, и процедурам....
Sep 9, 2013

Peer review in teaching

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“OK, your video clip was crap,” – this is more or less a direct quote from the Fall retreat by one of our programs (educational managemen...
Sep 1, 2013

Что общего между организацией и кофеваркой?

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Уже несколько раз в своей жизни я пытаюсь специально – и как можно быстрее – изучить новую для меня организацию. Те, кто давно работают на ...
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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