October brings the World Series and Halloween and for teachers it rsquo s that mid-semester point when we accept that our school year will not go as planned The syllabus has gone through a couple revisions the course calendar has been reworked and we start to hear the footprints of December rsq
Matt Emerson
Matt Emerson's essays have appeared in a number of publications, including America, Commonweal, and the Wall Street Journal. The Catholic Press Association named his September 2012 essay "Help Their Unbelief," published in America, as the "best essay" in the category of national general interest magazine for 2012. He is the author of the book Why Faith? A Journey of Discovery (Paulist Press 2016).Articles:Fruitful Searching (Jan. 5-12, 2015)Preambles for Faith (May 13, 2013)Help Their Unbelief (Sept. 10, 2012)Posts at The Ignatian Educator
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Leonard Sax to Parents: Protect Your Child
As readers of this blog know I 39 ve addressed some of the ways that students are harming themselves and others through the destructive use of Facebook Twitter and other forms of social media These same concerns were the subject of a controversial op-ed in yesterday 39 s Wall Street Journal Th
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10,000 Hours to Great Teaching?
Last week while discussing the Common Core State Standards CCSS I wrote that whether quot people oppose or support the CCSS conversations reflect the same assumptions that mark most proposals for education reform The implicit idea seems to be nbsp that if we just had a certain program or idea
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Transcending the ‘Single Story’
The latest post from Matt Emerson at our new blog, ‘The Ignatian Educator’
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I Believe in One . . . Microsoft?
Catching up on some reading in the area of innovation and education one link led me to another and I came across Steve Ballmer 39 s recent email to Microsoft employees announcing quot a far-reaching realignment of the company that will enable us to innovate with greater speed efficiency and cap
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School Reform and The Revolutionary Question
Over the last few months as I 39 ve tracked the debates about the Common Core State Standards CCSS which I 39 ve written about here I 39 ve become intrigued not just by the wrangling over content but by the way the standards are spoken of or treated nbsp Whether people oppose or support th
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The iPad and the Trinity
quot All men quot said Aristotle in the Metaphysics quot desire by nature to know quot I think Aristotle is right and I see this confirmed almost every day with my own students It is confirmed everywhere in fact Our culture centers itself around the acquisition of knowledge on mastering b
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Update: Felony Counts in Florida Bullying
A couple weeks ago I wrote about the harrowing death of Rebecca Ann Sedwick Rebecca Ann was 12 years old She was in middle school And she became so distraught as a result of online cruelty she jumped from a platform at an abandoned cement plant nbsp Yesterday 39 s nbsp New York Times reports th
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On ‘Deserving’ Stanford
A former student of mine alerted me to an article published yesterday nbsp in The Chronicle of Higher Education with the enticing title quot Welcome Freshmen You Don 39 t Deserve to Be Here quot In the article Kevin Carey director of education-policy at the New America Foundation offers his
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At the Hour of Our Death
In the second week of The nbsp Spiritual Exercises St Ignatius introduces different ways for understanding and making good choices There are some instances Ignatius notes when God quot so moves and attracts the will that a devout soul without hesitation or the possibility of hesitation follo