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  1. Reflections on the election from California

    11/6/08 9:20am by smartchica47
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    [The following is an email I received yesterday from a dear friend from college. Adam lives in Los Angeles with his family and I asked if I could post his email because he expresses so well what is in my own heart but does it far more eloquently than I could.] Dear Friends and Family,  Read more >

  2. Help a teacher!

    10/1/08 11:09am by smartchica47
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    As someone who does research on school finance, particularly in California, I am all too aware that many of our public schools are seriously under-funded (I say 'many', not all, because there are also quite a few that are just fine, thanks to inequities in the way schools are financed, but that's a whole other discussion). While my research focuses on the systemic funding, I've always been most heart-broken by the stories about the impact on individual classrooms.  Read more >

  3. Managing social media and multiple personalities

    7/24/08 8:32pm by smartchica47
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    Problogger's 'social media love-in' has me thinking once again about what exactly I'm doing with all this social media stuff.  Read more >

  4. Learning to trust students

    7/15/08 9:13am by smartchica47
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    I have many objections to super-large lecture sections (which, unfortunately, are my University's response to higher student enrollments) but probably my biggest gripe is that they provide a huge disincentive to have students write. Even with masters-level teaching assistants, and even if papers are short, I don't think any but the most masochistic professors would want to deal with grading for that many students.  Read more >

  5. What does 'single' mean to you?

    6/19/08 1:16pm by smartchica47
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    I'm always curious about how and why people define 'single' the way they do. That is, I think that for most people, when they meet someone who identifies themselves as single, that means something specific, but what it means varies from person to person. To me, it just means not being in a serious relationship; I guess I equate it with 'available'. But I know that for some, it distinctly means 'unmarried' (so for example, my aunt would be considered single because even though she has been living with the same man for about 30 years, she never married  Read more >

  6. Are the costs of learning new technology getting bigger?

    6/18/08 7:41pm by smartchica47
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  7. What does it take to get faculty to redesign their courses?

    6/16/08 9:29pm by smartchica47
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    Any professors who are truly interested in thinking more deeply about their teaching really should check out Steve Greenlaw's blog, if you haven't already. I always find that his posts make me think hard about my own teaching. In a recent post, Steve ponders why some faculty are more willing than others to make big changes to their courses.  Read more >

  8. Choice and responsibility: self-help or just good economics?

    6/13/08 9:49am by smartchica47
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    A recent post on Zen Habits talks about taking responsibility, pointing out that many people fail to take responsibility for their lives; everything is someone else's fault. As a teacher, I see this all the time in my students (the excuses are generally more creative than 'the dog ate my homework' but they are excuses nonetheless).  Read more >

  9. Do conservatives think women are clueless?

    6/9/08 2:51pm by smartchica47
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    Over on Have Children or Not, Beth asks whose 'fault' is it that women have delayed having children? She quotes an article that essentially blames feminism for giving women so many choices that they don't think about having kids until it is too late. My first thought was, "Who could possibly believe any woman could  Read more >

  10. Multiple dimensions of confidence

    6/3/08 4:59pm by smartchica47
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    I am a pretty direct person. If I'm curious about something, I will usually ask; if I'm upset with someone, I will talk to them about it; and my colleagues know that if I have an opinion at work, I'm not shy about sharing it. I'm not always comfortable doing this but I don't think I'm obnoxious about it (or if I realize later that I might have been obnoxious, I usually go back and apologize).  Read more >

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