Monthly Archives: February 2011

Coach Assault is not a Hazard of the Game

I just had to get this off my chest: I was in my parents’ living room yesterday and found myself watching Megyn Kelly’s midday news program. Kelly showed a clip referencing the local Philly station’s coverage of the “alleged” assault … Continue reading

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On Creatively Thriving

There’s something specific to the culture of what I’ll call the Creative Achievement set, something particular that elevates our collective experience and our collective output. While each of us is in process and at varying levels of performance at any … Continue reading

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Contributing to Education Debate at Online Schools

Elizabeth is excited to announce she’s joined a group of accomplished education policy thinkers on the Education Debate at Online Schools. She’ll be addressing the topics that she writes about at Stay Out Of School, but specifically how they pertain … Continue reading

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Straight Talk about The Secret

I think it’s time we got real about The Secret. It’s time we sort out the differences between wishful thinking (e.g. The Secret or Law of Attraction) and outstanding personal positioning and decision-making (what Rosalene Glickman aptly calls optimal thinking in her eponymous book). It seems that … Continue reading

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Scrivener

Back when I was writing Outsmarting the SAT (winter ’07/8) I was a recent Mac convert but still reflexively used Microsoft products, I started writing the book in Word. For those of you who have ever written a fairly hefty … Continue reading

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