May 2011
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John King Named NY Education Commissioner →
After the first wave of no-excuses charters (like Roxbury Prep) proved to critics that it could be done, networks like Uncommon Schools have proven that it can be replicated. Very, very excited.
April 2011
6 posts
In Xanadu Did Kubla Khan a Stately PowerPoint... →
It’s all about the execution.
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"I've got a bad feeling about this..." →
Uh-oh:
Tough note to communicate today: Automattic had a low-level (root) break-in to several of our servers, and potentially anything on those servers could have been revealed.
We have been diligently reviewing logs and records about the break-in to determine the extent of the information exposed, and re-securing avenues used to gain access. We presume our source code was exposed and...
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R.I.P. Flip →
I understand the rationale: as smart phones begin to include cameras with enough megapixels to satisfy most consumers, there’s no market for a dedicated non-pro video camera.
But there is: teachers, for whom frequent and repeated self-assessment is crucial to success.
Teachers love Flip cameras because they’re cheap, simple and reliable. The Flip’s single red button...
An Array of Hedgehogs
No, really.
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Going Meta
At a former education job, we used to end each meeting by “going meta.” Sure, we’d cover the standard logistics (Did hit all the items in the agenda? Do we each know what to do next?), but we’d also pick apart the flow of the meeting that had just ended. Did somebody unreasonably monopolize the conversation? Did anyone feel as if they shouldn’t have been present?...
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“Perhaps I am more than usually jealous with respect to my freedom. I feel that...”
– Henry David Thoreau, Life Without Principle (1863)