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Living in a Time of Two Plagues
As the U.S. death toll from Covid-19 approached 100,000—the largest country total in the world—the New York Times devoted four pages of its Sunday edition to cataloging the lives of 1,000 people who had died. Read together, the one-line obituaries...
Post · May 25, 2025
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
Self-Care and Open Water Swimming #WhyISwim
In a previous post, I emphasised the importance of self-care. Ironically, that very day, a tempting message arrived: ‘Anyone up for a swim this afternoon?’ It was a clear sign I needed to embrace my own advice.
The empowering hashtag #whyisign c...
Post · May 25, 2025
Navigating the Storm: Personal Challenges, the Zeigarnik Effect, and Your PhD Journey
We've all experienced that mental itch, the nagging feeling of an incomplete task. Psychology calls this the Zeigarnik Effect: unfinished business stays present in our minds (more can be read about it here). It's why we remember that open loop, t...
Post · May 25, 2025
I Didn't Know: The Dangerous Comfort of Ignorance
I hadn’t planned to write anything for Deaf Awareness Week. But a recent conversation shifted something in me. Something that needed to be said.
“No One Is Truly Disadvantaged” That was the claim. The argument? If we just treat everyone as indiv...
Post · May 25, 2025
The Scrunched-Up Truth: When A 75-Year Policy Feels Like Punishment for Being Care-Experienced
By Verity Green
I've recently started contributing to discussions around ‘Stress, Trauma and Contextual Safeguarding,’ and a powerful truth keeps surfacing: we need to fundamentally rethink how we listen to and understand the experiences of tho...
Post · May 25, 2025
Bias by Omission: The Human Responsibility to Ensure Inclusivity in Co-Production
By Verity Green
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has permeated our discussions across academia, research, co-production, and engagement. The resounding consensus? It's not going anywhere. This powerful technology holds immense potential, but as we ...
Post · May 25, 2025
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