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Letters of Assessment
A request to write letters evaluating other faculty for tenure and promotion means that other people think you are qualified to make this important assessment. It can also be terrifying, write Joya Misra and Jennifer Lundquist.
New Data Era for Teacher Prep
Teacher preparation programs can improve outcomes for future teachers and their students if they use student-achievement data to inform their efforts, writes Benjamin Riley.
Five Reasons Why Pokémon Go Will Change Education, and One Reason Why It Won't
Thoughts on the biggest thing since the last big thing.
Three Ways to Support Candidates on the Job Market
What to do and what not to do.
Will Virtual Reality Be Different?
Why VR may be an opportunity for our edtech community to atone for our past sins.
Presidential Spouse as Utility Player
Sometimes it's best for a presidential spouse to avoid the role of a home-run-crushing slugger and to focus instead on relatively inconspicuous but worthwhile endeavors, writes Mort Maimon.
How to Choose a (Machiavellian?) Leader
Machiavelli's name has long been synonymous with political skulduggery, but Maurizio Viroli offers us a kinder, gentler Machiavelli -- someone who kept the common good in mind in ways greatly lacking in this election year, writes Scott McLemee.