This blog is intended to be blunt and to the point. My hope is that it will help to provoke change. Below is a letter I wrote last week to University of Victoria President Jamie Cassels. It follows an exchange I had with the UVIC Dean of Science Dr. Robert Lipson in the past 9 […]
Groundhog Day Redux: Standardized Testing casts long shadow over education
Each year Groundhog Day reflects to me equal parts optimism and ennui. Optimism because, well, a soothsaying celebrity rodent seems refreshingly naive and pagan. If only life could always be that simple. We could be taking our cues from gerbils and garden slugs, even the lowly paramecium. I figure we’d be off the hook for […]
Prospecting yields a couple of noteworthy education trends
I used to be a prospector, a job requiring keen eyes and the ability to notice trends obvious and inferred. Prospecting is all about dreaming about what might be and why things appear just so. A few days ago I had a chance to dust off my prospecting skills while doing some research in the […]