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Improvement is a Never-Ending Process

A Principal's Reflections

Looking for ways to improve should be an expectation, not something that is optional. Whether at the individual or system level, the fact remains that there is always room for growth. So why is this the case? Pursuing improvement is a never-ending process because the landscape of knowledge, technology, and human understanding is in a perpetual state of evolution.

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Often overwhelmed on big campuses, rural college students push for support

The Hechinger Report

CHICO, Calif. — Most students in the California State University, Chico library were silently poring over books or computers on a recent afternoon, but one group was tucked into a corner peppering university president Stephen Perez with questions. This story also appeared in Los Angeles Times What’s the world’s smallest mountain range? The Sutter Buttes, about an hour south of Chico.

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What Creativity Isn’t

The Effortful Educator

Recently, there was a thread on creativity on Twitter. As usual, it included Sir Ken Robinson’s TedTalk espousing that schools kill creativity. I am a full time teacher. I have been for 17 years. I disagree with Sir Ken’s opinion that lectures and traditional schooling styme creativity…as he lectures us through a TedTalk about the subject. Schools do not kill creativity…in fact, schools enable creativity.

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14th Amendment Section 3: Does anyone know what it really means?

Hayward "Blah, Blah, Blah" Blog

I divided up Section 3 by each subject referred to and used clause #5, "who, having previously taken an oath", as the mid-point where the dependent clauses that follow refer back to the prior clauses. There is a high level of parallelism/symmetry with the clause(s) but not a perfect correlation.

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OPINION: Why Americans should not blame their local college or university for the shortfalls of the elite

The Hechinger Report

In just the past eight years, American confidence in higher education has dropped from 57 percent to 36 percent, with more saying they have “very little” confidence than a “great deal.” There are many reasons for this souring on colleges and universities, from high tuition sticker prices and large amounts of student loan debt to political polarization and doubts about graduates’ work readiness.

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