#Teaching

It’s become clear to me that Trump/Pence don’t believe in/understand social science. How can we move toward a more just nation with leaders who deny the existence of the very
Read more
Yesterday at the #UCUStrikesBack rally @ProfMadhuK encouraged us to dare to dream how the university could be different. Here are ten ideas. 1/12 All FT staff to have a workload
Read more
In my time as an abolitionist, I’ve seen a lot of questions about “what about *insert terrible crime here*?” So I’d like to explain my views on this subject (A
Read more
@theNASEM Workshop series on #HigherEd's response to COVID just started.@DeanCraigMSU starts us off with a really heavy slide - grad students are not ok. #MentalHealth is worse, only 33% think
Read more
This is a very honest thread about the advantages of training for programming contests.I would like to give a slightly more nuanced view. In 10+ years teaching in college, I've
Read more
@pfbentley3 and @TomHeartsTanks are you organized for combat, in garrison? A thread. XO is chief of staff and maintenance officer. Not supply. He sees everything. You are grooming him/her for
Read more
It’s the 75th anniversary of Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s execution. I’ve been slowly reading ‘Life Together’ the past few weeks (cc @life_isolation), and I don’t think any book has struck me as
Read more
So I always have a good list of “bad,” or wtf?!?, English names my students tend to give themselves. First group of postgraduate students was fairly tame, but my second
Read more
@naval got me thinking yesterday when he spoke on JRE about income inequality vs outcome inequality.If we focus more on outcomes, rather than people’s incomes, we will fund the right
Read more
A lot of folks are being convinced by broader culture and all of these new revolutions that their orthodox beliefs in what God has said in His Word is wrong.
Read more
How Edreformers Bully Teachers. Part 2. The CEO of Brightbeam (aka Results in Education Foundation and Education Post, funded by Microsoft/Apple/ Facebook/Walmart billionaire family foundations) RTed an article with a
Read more
About 10 years ago, in May 2011, I was heading to @CovePark for a Scottish Emerging Writer residency. Hanging out with artists like @RonButlinMakar and @JosieLong. Writing a novel about
Read more
I guess I have more to say about this (expect a florid thinkpiece entitled "against generosity" to hit your navel-gazing academic journal soon) but I wonder whether I agree with
Read more
what all of the glee characters have been doing during quarantine: a thread rachel berry:rachel hasn’t left her house since march. she sprays her entire apartment with bleach every day.
Read more
As true on other fronts this year, adjustments have to be made based on the stress we’re all feeling & the issues that are hard to ignore no matter what
Read more
Okay, since you insist on continuing to push your beliefs at me, despite my having made it clear I'm uninterested, let me be blunt about what I think about those
Read more