Here it is, this year’s Beloit College “mindset list.” Fellow parents, I share your pain (yes, you needed to have been around for the presidential election of 1996 to get this reference) in reading through these, including …
They have…
Hello PDS Parents,
On behalf of the PDS Parents Association, I would like to extend a warm welcome to all our students and their families. I hope that you had a wonderful summer and you are as excited as I…
The Common App went live on August 1 allowing students to start filling out applications, develop their personal essay, and learn what, if any, supplementary essays are required. There are some changes for 2015-2016, including new essay prompts, an increase…
Here’s a interestingly provocative article for all of us in education. How Much Do we Need to Know? by Peter Evans-Greenwood.
It opens with:
We used to be defined by what we knew. But today, knowing too much can be…
I’m tired of the weasel-worded politicians who trot out “I am not a scientist” when asked a rational question that has the potential to challenge a deeply held, irrational, ignorant ideology.
When the threat of a shred of reality, logic,…
It’s the 30th anniversary of the Commodore Amiga computer. This is apparently the machine that introduced a whole new world of computer gaming for a generation of users.
This is a cause of great celebration in the retro computing crowd.…
I haven’t read Go Set a Watchman and I’m not sure I will. I did read the first chapter in The Guardian and was not particularly impressed. If Harper Lee did not want it published then she didn’t want it…
Finally – at long last – the old desks were taken to the basement for storage.
There they sat for two decades -surplus to requirements, replaced by moulded plastic, steel and aluminum – gathering dust and shedding memories.
The lidded…
When I first came to the Day School, in 1965, I brought with me a document I had put together with a colleague at the Harley School in Rochester. It described the attributes we wanted to see in a really…
To ensure their selectivity colleges want lots of students to apply, want to accept very few, and they want the overwhelming majority of their accepted students to attend. Schools work hard to not admit students who won’t attend. Why? Because…
