Education News, Analysis, and Commentary
It’s starting to warm up. Here’s education entrepreneur and NYU adjunct prof Jonathan Harber with a rainbow trout from the Connetquot River on Long Island. If you fish, we overweight fly fishing around here but all kinds of fishing is welcome and appreciated, and are somehow involved in education (or even your kids or grandkids) send …
Here’s Kevin Kosar with catfish on the Potomac River from earlier this month. Kosar’s a frequent flier around here, on substance and fish. Some say he’s the Mayor of Fish Porn. Want more? Hundreds of education types with fish are here and here.
Here’s Marc Sternberg of the Walton Family Foundation* with a lively New England brown trout on what looks like an A+ day on a lovely river. The summer is winding down sure, but you can still see hundreds of education types with fish by clicking here and here. Tips on how take a kid fishing here. Send …
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 …
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Steve Mesler was a college decathlete* who switched to bobsledding. After a World Championship, Olympic Gold Medal (part of a team to win the first US four-man gold in six decades, other podium finishes) he decided maybe he wasn’t cut out for that and pivoted to education with his sister, a researcher at MDRC, and …
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I’m spending some time today with students in a professional learning community in Colorado. Ordinarily, a Colorado summer trip would be a fantastic opportunity to slip some fishing in. But here we are. In 2020 it’s a Zoom meeting. Parker Baxter is in Colorado so he’s getting out more. Here he is on the Blue …
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 …
This is just a great picture. Happy angler, mountains, big fish… It’s the Commodore’s daughter Anabel fishing a few weeks ago in Idaho. The Roza family are not strangers to fish porn. If you want more education types (In her day job Marguerite “Commodore” Roza is arguably the leading school finance innovator in the sector) …
No fish porn today, more soon, but let me use this as an opportunity to be crystal clear about what I absolutely am not looking for. Dan Willingham with some important cautions. The gaps between research and what everyone knows are really stunning. This week I heard someone in a position of real influence talking about how …
Fewer fish pictures in the winter but you can still get out, I had a good day on a river a few weeks ago. Scott Roza, Marguerite Roza’s husband, was on the Provo River in Utah this week. If you don’t know her work, you should, amazing contributor in the sector. For his part, Scott’s a great …