Education News, Analysis, and Commentary
To a certain kind of person, who you run into in the wild a fair amount, when you criticize anything about President Biden you immediately get a response along the lines of, “so you want Trump?” It’s an idiotic response and a sign of how wanting and unimaginative our political debate is. This shows up …
Continue reading “A Lost Generation? Plus Some Friday Fish Pics”
Light posting, spent the week on the West Coast. Saw a Neil Young and Stephen Stills show that was pretty special. And spent a few days with the BARR Center at their conference. It’s such a high energy and hopeful event each year. WonkyFolk Jed Wallace and I released another WonkyFolk. We ask why after …
Continue reading “Knowledge Matters…New Podcast, Admission From Beta By Bellwether. Fish Pics!”
It’s been a heavy week of content, shortchanging kids on learning, balancing rights and inclusion. And it’s been a bit since we had fish pics this year. So let’s end on a light note: Here’s Jonathan Harber and family with some fish. Harber does, and has done, a lot in this sector. And I’ve featured …
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I am really behind on the fish pics and have a great stockpile. Today, since it’s unofficially summer everywhere, here’s a family fishing one. This is Bellwether Partner Katie Rouse and her kids Ali and Harry in Islamorada, Florida. Down in the keys. A great sport fishing destination and place to spend time. Friday …
Julie Corbett is an education consultant based in the northeast. She and I share an affinity for low-profile but high-leverage issues like procurement. She has a new pub out on that issue. And an affinity for fishing. She shows up from time to time in fish pics and fish porn with her family. Today, check …
Lina Bankert is a partner at Bellwether and long time team member. She also takes her kids fishing! Here’s one below – with the accomplishment and smile that you go for. You can take a kid fishing too. Want more pics of fish, or education people with fish? Who wouldn’t? Here are hundreds. Send me yours.
Here’s a lovely trout caught by Natasha Wanjiru, a student at Sewanee University in Tennessee. This summer she’s a counselor at Green River Preserve Camp, where this beauty was caught. Natasha is an alum of Bridge International Academies in Kenya. It’s a good reminder that it’s camp season again and that fish make people smile so take …
Continue reading “Friday Fish Pics – Hot Summer, Cold Water”
Here’s Bellwether’s Christine Wade with a sunfish (and an all-natural green screen) in West Virginia. And I don’t usually post my pictures, seems gratuitous, but I enjoy a good fish story and I went fishing in West Virginia’s rivers too, this week… It’s fall so the pace of fish shots around here slows down…but you …
Julie Corbett is an education consultant who is a frequent flyer on fish porn. Here’s her son enjoying some fishing on Lake Champlain this summer. Julie and Janice Garland recently published this analysis for CCSSO on the state implementation of the federal requirement for More Rigorous Options for underperforming schools. And that brings us to …
Continue reading “Friday Fish Pics, Fish Porn, And Fish Policy!”
Ben Sayeski a former school principal, is Managing Partner at Education Strategy Consulting, a data analytics firm. Here’s his daughter with a nice largemouth bass – a common species where the Georgia-based Sayeksi family is. Friday Fish Porn is a longtime but sometimes episodic feature (that’s why they call it fishing not catching) around here. It’s …