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We’ve had a few fish pics from Colorado’s fantastic Roaring Fork over the years, including some bittersweet ones. It’s one of my favorite rivers in the world. The whole Roaring Fork Valley is an amazing ecosystem. Jack Shaw, who we visited with earlier this year, was there last weekend, here’s a result: Want more pics …
Simmons Lettre and Ted Preston found themselves in Colorado this week for meetings. Fall is the best fly fishing so they went out with Taylor Creek to float some water you can’t reach from shore. Rainbows, browns, and a crisp late fall day. There are some big fish in that river. Hard to beat. Earlier this fall …
Adair Bard, who is part of Bellwether’s Policy and Thought Leadership Team, was in Colorado earlier this month. The Mississippi native decided to try cold water fishing and took a day on the Roaring Fork. Here she is with a nice rainbow trout. There are big browns (really big) and rainbow trout in that water …
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ICYMI – the 2024 Eduwonk In and Out list is here. Something for everyone to love and hate. Tim Daly is going deep on the whole Finland education marketing play. We’ve discussed that a few times around here. And don’t say you were not warned. Coming Attractions In spring 1997, the Red River flooded in …
Bottom line: If the Republicans can land on a message that highlights the Democratic liabilities here then the issue won’t break as cleanly to the Democrats as people assume. I’ve mentioned before that the core Democratic political problem right now is how the party is being held hostage by its activist class. It’s not a …
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Here’s Jack Shaw, he’s been here a few times, with a lovely trout he got into this month because lately the fishing is better than the skiing in Colorado. Need a last minute stocking stuffer? Here’s the worst gift idea ever: Hundreds of pictures of education people with fish in this one of a kind archive, that …
Here’s Bellwether’s Ashley LiBetti out on Virginia’s Shenandoah River with a catfish she caught kayak fishing. A few things about the Shenandoah bear mentioning. It’s a lovely river and a lovely name. There is some disagreement about the etymology. It’s a Native American word that, depending who you believe, is related to person’s name, means …
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Here’s a DC teacher in The Times basically saying last year’s pandemic response was less than underwhelming. In all the cheerleading and backslapping, stuff like this is still often whispered in furtive asides. I don’t think live school made sense in all situations, especially last winter, but it seems hard to argue the sector moved …
Here’s this year’s holiday book list, which people seem to like, perhaps because it doesn’t include many education books. Or perhaps because we all procrastinate and need last minute gift ideas…anyway there were a lot of good education books this year – Harvard Education Press put out a bunch so check their catalog. Fredrick deBoer’s “Cult …
Very sad to report that the education world lost Ted Preston over the weekend to cancer. Ted’s been featured here on the blog and his work has as well. He was a genuinely good person and terrific colleague. With his background Ted could have done a variety of things, and he decided to turn his attention …