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Testimony Before the Boston School Committee
The following comments were delivered, via Zoom, during a meeting of the Boston School Committee on a proposal to update the admissions criteria for "exam schools" in the Boston Public Schools.
My name is James Noonan, assistant professor of educ...
Post · May 25, 2025
What We Learned in the Pandemic
The decision by the Commissioner of Education, Jeff Riley, to deny approval of remote learning days at the Curley K-8 School in Boston seems part of a determined plan by the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education to move forward at all c...
Post · May 25, 2025
Robin presents his work at the ISM Colloqium.
TLC lab member Robin Sharma presented his work on the design and development of a digital game to build mathematical understanding of middle school children at the XXVIIth ISM Graduate Student Colloquium. Organized by the Institut des Sciences Mat...
Post · May 24, 2025
A Quick Guide to Better Surveys
This post is also available as a downloadable PDF.
Surveys are common currency in data-driven improvement. The allure of surveys is easy to understand. Thanks to mobile technology, surveys are more easily designed and deployed now than ever befor...
Post · May 23, 2025
A Return to Normal But At What Cost?
Last weekend, my wife and I were in a restaurant and unmasked for one of the first times in three years. While we were sipping our drinks, my brother sent me a text message: “Happy third anniversary to Tom Hanks getting Covid!” Which then reminded...
Post · May 23, 2025
When 'You can do anything' shackles us: The false promise of individual triumph in a broken world
Positive psychology and new-age spiritualities have sold us a seductive fantasy: that desire alone can shape reality. "Visualize your goals", "believe in yourself", "the universe conspires in your favor". But this mantra of "you can do anything" i...
Post · May 23, 2025
3-year postdoc position available
We have an opening for a 3-year postdoc position to join the NL-eEDM collaboration. The aim of the table-top particle physics eEDM research program is to probe the electron’s electric dipole moment with unprecedented precision using a slow, cold a...
Post · May 21, 2025
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