Monthly Archives: May 2019

Chicago’s Urban Prep Academy – known for 100% college acceptance rates – put reputation ahead of results

Chicago’s Urban Prep Academy – known for 100% college acceptance rates – put reputation ahead of results

When I joined Urban Prep Academies in 2006 as the founding math teacher at what was to become the nation’s first all-boys public charter high school, the school’s faculty and staff had one central goal. We were on a mission to get black boys from Englewood – a racially segregated and economically distressed neighborhood in Chicago, and […] … learn more→

The role of SMM for business: The Big 8 social networks

The role of SMM for business: The Big 8 social networks

SMM technology is familiar to all of us because we all subscribe to various informational publications, groups, pages of popular newspapers or magazines, favorite brands, and companies on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, etc. Almost every well-known publication has its own representation in social networks. Confidence in it increases the check mark at the left above the […] … learn more→

Backwards Higher Ed goes test optional

Backwards Higher Ed goes test optional

While the SAT, a placement test to get into college, is destroying itself in an attempt to become more relevant…it’s pointless, as today’s topic addresses. It’s always fascinating to watch the mismanagement which comes from government control and interference. When a privately held business finds sales lagging, for example, it reduces prices. You can see […] … learn more→

AI tutors will make mass retraining a viable reality

AI tutors will make mass retraining a viable reality

It is commonly agreed that automation will take over large numbers of existing jobs over the next generation, requiring humans to train and retrain for new but different roles. We can already see this happening. College graduation rates are increasing across all Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) countries, and one-third of this increase […] … learn more→

How to harness the power of semantic gravity in your writing

How to harness the power of semantic gravity in your writing

A month or two ago, I wrote a post called ‘The Uneven U’ which outlined ideas about paragraph structure from Eric Hayot’s book “The elements of academic style: writing for the humanities”. Briefly, Hayot claims that there are five levels of abstraction in sentence structure: Level five: Abstract; general, oriented toward a solution or conclusion Level Four: Less […] … learn more→

How reading enriches children's education

How reading enriches children’s education

For book lovers, it may seem obvious to share stories with their children. Why would not they pass on their love of letters to them? However, researchers have shown that the benefits of this activity are not limited to the creation of a link but go far beyond, both from the point of view of the adult […] … learn more→