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Mike Goldstein is an educational polymath and one of the original guestbloggers here and a returner many times since – where he goes wild. But I think fish pics is a first. He took some family time in New England and this picture of a largemouth bass is a pandemic-era trifecta: time outside, smiling kid, …
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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 …
It’s Friday. Here’s Jason Weeby, formerly of Bellwether and currently at NSVF, out with his son fishing. Something you can do socially distanced? Something that almost guarantees a smile? Take a kid fishing! Quite timely to have Jason this week because he’s a long time advocate for design thinking in education and just this week Kayne …
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Here’s Justin Stone, he’s a former PPI education team member, finishing a doctorate at University of Virginia’s Curry School, and looking to come to DC for an ed policy job. If he can land a bass like this, just think what he can do for your organization! Email him yourself. Like Howie Schaffer he’s a …
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A few memories stay with me from the very early days of the pandemic. Mostly about what I got wrong or right, or just got lucky. My wife and I throw themed dinner parties and on Feb. 29th of 2020 we threw a small one with a leap theme, about great leaps. We served grasshoppers …
When my daughters were pre-teens they came home from school one day alarmed. During a lesson on climate change the teacher or some part of the lesson, it was never quite clear, had basically stated that absent radical attention to warming there would be little hope for survivability on earth after 2030. This was during …
Congrats to my colleagues Amy Chen Kulesa and Alex Spurrier for their winning essay in Fordham’s Wonkaton. Alex and Amy take a measured look at the potential of AI. Not kool aid, and not cold water. Dutch Treat. Earlier this week Secretary of Education Cardona gaffed. Apparently unaware that President Reagan was not much of …
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Parker Baxter is Director of the Center for Education Policy Analysis at the School of Public Affairs at CU Denver. More on that below. He’s also a fisherman, has fished all over the country including for smallmouth bass on Virginia’s Shenandoah. Couple of fish here, including a monster largemouth bass from Florida last weekend. And a good reminder to …
The weather is warming up, and that means fishing. Tim Taylor of Colorado Succeeds and America Succeeds succeeds here with a Yellow Jack: Education writer Richard Whitmire’s wife Robin – a badass runner/cyclist and competent angler as well as all around wonderful person, if you don’t know her – celebrated Mother’s Day catching this largemouth …
I let the summer fish pictures and fish porn pile up so today we’re going to clean out the cupboard before the weather gets cold. No coldwater fish though, didn’t anyone catch trout this summer? To start, here’s John Merrow’s granddaughter Valentina. Seriously, take a kid fishing when you get the chance. And James Wilcox’s mom is back! James is CEO at …