completely unbelievable
Greetings from Ohio. I am on the road to a total solar eclipse with my family because a solar eclipse is an amazing thing to experience and I will do my best to experience it. Totality and standing inside Stonehenge one evening at sunset are two experiences that make time feel like it moves differently. I hope this is a place where you can experience it. (I also visited Neil Armstrong's childhood home and it was really cool to see. I'm a geek).
Unfortunately, not everyone feels that way and some schools are back to hiding children. I wrote about this in 2017. U.S. News and World Report. It is understandable why schools on the path to totalization might make some changes, considering time, transportation and other logistical issues. However, it is incomprehensible that some schools would keep children indoors out of an “abundance of caution”.
There is nothing better in the world than exposing young people to science and natural phenomena. This is how you keep them engaged for the future. This is still valid:
It is understandable that ancient people feared solar eclipses. Professional educator in 2017? There is no excuse.
Lieberman
Joe Lieberman fell and died in late March. Although he was a controversial politician, many of his colleagues could be seen admiring him in their tributes.
I had the privilege of working with him in government and think tanks. He was a decent guy, he wasn't a hater and he did what he thought was right. He was also funny. And he was not a partisan. It turns out that this foreshadowed much of our current polarization and negative polarization.
You can't ask for more than that, and whether you agree or not, we need more people in government doing what they think is right rather than running around in the old grooves of broken politics.
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please refer to this
Jim Traub says about books and phones:
A study by the American Psychological Association found that in the late 1970s, 60% of 12th graders said they read a book or magazine every day, but by 2016 that figure had plummeted to 16%. Since then, those numbers have almost certainly fallen further.
Tyler Austin Harper of White Rural Rage:
Instead of considering the ugly fact that the threat to our democracy is coming from right-wing extremists in suburban and urban areas, the authors of White Rural Rage distorted the research and explicitly called metropolitan areas “rural.” An all too familiar story about a scary hillbilly. Perhaps this was easier than facing the fact that the call was coming from inside the house.
Alex Grodd, previously a member of BetterLesson, has a smart new podcast about better disagreements.
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