Physicist at Large

I'm half-way through Chapter 3 of Class Dismissed.  This chapter traces the history of American views on education and its purpose.  I...

I don't have a lot to say about the first chapter of Class Dismissed.  It lays out the case that economic inequality is real and growing...

I should be working on something else, but I'm reading.  I'm reading a book relevant to my work, but still, I'm reading.  The bo...

If the basic idea to take away from chapter 7 is that effort matters, improvement is possible, people are not fixed quantities, and those wh...

Chapter 6 makes a good case that there's more than one way to teach (though one should take these rosy stories of STEM education miracle...

In chapter 5, Prof. Guinier talks a lot about successful programs for helping disadvantaged students through college with peer support and s...

The school that Guinier describes is great.  It also draws on a unique partnership and it only accepts students who want to be there.  Is t...