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Higher ed, availability, and purpose.
Some thoughts on higher education. Good post here ^ by someone who knows TONS more about economics than I do. lol The current innovations in higher education are so exciting yet threaten to undermine so much of what makes education valuable. If we see education merely as the transfer of information, then MOOC’s make sense…
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On the importance of social & emotional learning
Not as often as I would like, I write posts (with the help of friends) at a blog called Teaching Redemptively. Our desire is to explore the space we like to call “teaching redemptively” or “grace-based education.” I just wrote a post over there about a recent research study that suggests emotional & social skills…
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On Gatsby – so brilliant. 😉
pretty sure this is brilliant “Through its use of characters, garbage falling from the sky all the time, and black people constantly playing the trumpet on a fire escape, The Great Gatsby is truly a book by F. Scott Fitzgerald about how you shouldn’t just buy a castle near your ex-girlfriend in the 1920s and then wait…
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Urgent need – help if you can
I just heard about an amazing effort to prevent infanticide among Amazonian tribes in Brazil, and an immediate opportunity to help them out by donating clothes, diapers, and other supplies THIS WEEK to a mission team traveling from Erskine College. I told the team leader I’d try to get the word out in the Upstate to those…
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Unexpected Blessings
God is good. All the time. In the past 24 hours…. Someone walked up and paid for our entire Anniversary dinner at Outback Steakhouse — above & beyond what we would have spent on it, really, so that even let us splurge a bit. 🙂 Then, last night, some sweet folks lent us the use…
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