Throwback Thursday: A Toast to Incremental Improvement
Mary Griffith | Mysteries, writing, fencing, writing mysteries about fencing, and occasional rants f
by Mary
10M ago
(Nostalgia for those preparing for yet another SN) These days I usually don’t think much about fencing tournament logistics, having been out of that business now for the better part of a decade, but my husband just had his second total knee replacement early this week, and I’m cognitively in a weird place, somewhat reminiscent of working long BC hours at Summer Nationals, back when tournament operations left much to be desired. This morning I woke up thinking about the worst SN I ever worked as BC chair. Took me a bit of research to figure out which SN it was, because the part haunting me was ..read more
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The Ignorance of Our Outrage: Thoughts on The 1619 Project
Mary Griffith | Mysteries, writing, fencing, writing mysteries about fencing, and occasional rants f
by Mary
4y ago
I’ve been pondering—and cringing at—a high school memory provoked by the online chatter over the past few days about the imminent publication of “The 1619 Project” in this week’s New York Times Magazine. I think it happened during my junior year, 1970–71, when an exchange student visited my English class. I don’t remember his name, but he was from South Africa, and our teacher asked him to explain a little about apartheid and how it worked. “Apartheid”? We-—good (white) college prep students in an excellent suburban California school in a world still a few years away from the international div ..read more
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Oh. DUUHHHHH.
Mary Griffith | Mysteries, writing, fencing, writing mysteries about fencing, and occasional rants f
by Mary
5y ago
Back when I wrote more often about education, I occasionally posted what I called “DUH research”—usually, reports of academic or clinical findings in education or cognitive psychology that seem so obvious to those of us who’ve spent any time at all paying attention to how our kids learn that it’s hard to believe anybody ever bothered with formal studies. Of course maniacal LEGO kids get to be good at visual geometry. Or those who play games like Yahtsee and poker get better at arithmetic and probability. Or kids who get enough food and sleep tend to be better adjusted and more capable than tho ..read more
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