School Leaders Agree On Three Measures Of Successful Schooling
Gallup
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1/6/16
"More than eight in 10 of the nation's chief K-12 education leaders say that student engagement with classwork, their hope for the future and the percentage of them who graduate from high school are "very important" measures of a public school's effectiveness… Superintendents are less likely to highly prioritize the paths students take after high school as a measure of a school's effectiveness.”
A Literary (Not Social Science) Look At The Effect Of Mobile Tech
Times Literary Supplement
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12/23/15
"While I like FaceTime and Skype, I prefer the faceless phone for important, emotional discussions, and Scott showed me why I feel that phone calls are more intimate. A phone silence, he observes, ‘is a thick rope tying two speakers together in the private void of their suspended conversation. This binding may be unpleasant and to be avoided, but it isn’t as estranging as its visual counterpart . . . silence can’t cross the membrane of the computer screen as it can uncoil down phone lines’.”