Tag: learning

The InterWeb: Mechanism of Authority or Comfort Blanket?

In this post, we keep digging as to what the mechanism would be if this often repeated accusation that the voters heeded the messages from a right-wing sound system and that was why they ended up choosing a convicted felon, verified sex assaulter, and indicted insurrection inciter to be the 47th President of the USA.

Madelyn Blair Interviews Me on Reinvention

In a very welcome event where I managed to blend experiences and insights from both of my major careers — ​Chief Learning Officer and ​Playwright – – ​Madel​yn Blair​, executive coach, TV host, president of the Conscious Business Network on e360tv,​ and old friend from our days in the world of organizational knowledge and learning research, invited me to a discussion on reinvention. That […]

A Christmas Dog’s Dinner

Yes, sit down (or stand up) for a special holiday canine repast of links about testing and its adjacent domains or what is known as a dog’s dinner this time. And why wouldn’t you be invited, anybody who is interested in measurement is part of a community. At least that seems to be the point […]

Unmasking The Myth of Meritocracy: Sophie Callcott’s Excellent Essay

Sophie Callcott, a junior at Stanford University, has written a solid essay yanking down one corner of the myth of meritocracy in college admissions:  There’s Still One Big Trick for Getting Into an Elite College https://nyti.ms/3y7IWil   Yes, looking at, agreeing with, and promoting this essay are all proof of my obvious confirmation bias when it comes […]

Colleges Need To Pass A Test Too

The wrought-iron gate pictured above is called FitzRandolph Gate and stands at the main entrance to Princeton University. Its presence here on a TAPH post about the obligation of colleges is not just because I live in Princeton and bike through that area regularly, but because of a significance the gate acquired over 50 years […]

Is there another debt to deal with? Should colleges be put to the test?

The Internet is atwitter and abuzz and in some cases aghast at the decision by President Biden to cancel student loan debt. My brother Gene Bouie squarely raised the unsaid elements of at least some of that resistance in writing to a swath of engaging people this morning about the cancelling of student debt by […]