There are a lot of songs about coming to California. Not a whole lot about leaving California. That’s for good reason. Over the past (gulp) 22 years, I’ve fallen in love with the Bay Area—the beauty of the hills and water, the endless hiking and mountain biking trails nearly out my back door, the mountains […]
Winter has treated us to some beautiful scenes–first on a quick day trip to Tahoe, and now in Jackson Hole. As always, Rachel has the full story and the much better pictures on her blog, which also features a brilliant picture of one of our unexpected Moose Encounters of the Third Kind,* but here are […]
I had the pleasure last night of seeing what I think was the west coast premiere of Brooklyn Castle, the already critically beloved movie about the nearly miraculous inner-city chess powerhouse at Intermediate School 318 in Brooklyn. (The screening came courtesy of Beth Schmidt’s terrific Wishbone* organization, which translates even modest donations into opportunities for […]
Nearly a year ago, I began visiting organizations that represent a new idea in a terribly broken field: teacher training. The evidence is rife that we don’t do a good enough job at preparing teachers–according to the teachers themselves, their principals, and even their own ed school professors. And it’s hard to underestimate the impact […]
Hi folks, For the serious data geeks among you, some serious weekend fun. I’ve been trying to fill in what ought to be a very simple chart, with some data that you’d imagine would be straightforward, re the % of students who enter and complete college from the highest and lowest income quartiles: Lowest-income quartile […]
Being a bookish nice Jewish boy (not sure how many of those words are redundant), fixing a washing machine is waaay outside my areas of competency. But desperate times call for desperate measures. When the machine gave up in mid-load with an acrid smell, an impotent whirring sound, and three house guests en route, […]
