I want to make an argument about cursive that I am not sure I can make cleanly, because the minute you say the word people picture their grandmother’s Christmas card… Read more

Metaphor is not a flourish. It’s a diagnostic. When someone reaches for a comparison, they are telling you exactly how they understand the thing they are trying to describe, and… Read more

The notebook is the last room in education a child actually owns. When a kid writes on a school-issued device, the ownership of that thought is complicated. It passes through… Read more

The fans whirring along were just strong enough to move the heat off the carpet but not quite blow the papers off my table as I graded essays — student… Read more

Stage two of a five-point Kelly Scale on work issues, aggravations, and the treatment of our children and adults that have me scratching my head — and setting a stopwatch… Read more

I have so much to say about education in Texas. Because I can’t wait a second longer to say that the dismantling of public education in Texas has been facilitated… Read more

Most of my ideas start as notes. Sometimes they’ve been videos and clips and snippets I recorded because I just had to spit it out somewhere. So I’ve been slowly… Read more

Here is something I did not expect to learn from eleven months of evaluating AI language models: that the most reliable tool any of us had for doing that work… Read more

Before the printing press, someone had to decide what was worth copying. That was the job. The monks in the medieval scriptoria — the copying rooms of European monasteries —… Read more

I once sent a cover letter with a Venn diagram in it. Not a metaphorical Venn diagram — an actual one, drawn and formatted and placed in the sidebar of… Read more