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Doing It Right This Time

Today, I am giving a presentation at the 51st annual IAEA Conference in Toronto titled, “Capitalizing on AI to Build the Human Instructure Necessary to Sustain State-Sponsored School-Based Assessment.” The translated version: Let’s use AI to solve the biggest issues that derailed previous attempts at assessment innovation – supporting the humans whom we tasked with implementing,…

F-L-A-T: A Reading Story

FLAT has been the operative word to describe reading in the United States.  FLAT achievement over the past several decades. Most initiatives aimed at improving reading and reading instruction have fallen FLAT. Even the message proclaimed by advocates of the science of reading may be becoming FLAT as policies try to move practice beyond the committed…

Back Where It All Began

Today, my wife and I celebrate our 42nd wedding anniversary. A wonderful journey that began with a 125-mile drive through a rainstorm to attend a Barry Manlier concert at Tanglewood.

Danger! Steep Grades Ahead

A clear sign of the start of a new school year is the uptick in posts about grades and grading. Across platforms, thoughts are being shared on grade inflation, fair and equitable grading, and opinions offered on perennial debates over grading formative work during instruction, retakes, and assigning 0’s. After letting all of these thoughts…

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“Man stands face to face with the irrational. He feels within him his longing for happiness and for reason. The absurd is born of this confrontation between the human need and the unreasonable silence of the world.” – Albert Camus

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