This study investigates how underrepresented students experience the social contexts of their schools in relation to their college ambitions, and the particular attributes of schools’ social contexts that might facilitate their transition to four-year colleges.
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As I wrote in my last blog post,
I’m pledging to abandon social media networks when I am at work, except for narrowly defined work purposes. And I’m asking you to hold me to it and slag me mercilessly if you catch me at it! And I’m inviting you to take the pledge, too!
Yep, so for one day at least—and for many more, I still intend—I didn’t do any social media at work. I could have done some related to work, but I didn’t have any I wanted to do, so I didn’t.
I’ve had a tremendously productive day so far! (Among other things I promoted a plan to get people to write a bunch of one-fact bitts quickly; and I also started a list of our “beat writers,” six listed so far, under the first question of our FAQ. Sorry, you may have to log in in order to see this.)
But, sadly, nobody, not even a single person, took this “No Social Media at Work” pledge. Oh, well! I’ll continue myself, anyway!
Shakespeare was wrong when he posed the question “What is in a name”? A name means a lot. It tells us a lot about the person and his ancestors and culture. The author of this commentary argues that Global Understanding begins with understanding an unfamiliar name.
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Social media is a time suck. I’m not as bad as some, but I need to focus better. I think a lot of us do, frankly. Don’t you agree? Then let’s start a No Social Media During Work campaign!
I’m pledging to abandon social media networks when I am at work, except for narrowly defined work purposes. And I’m asking you to hold me to it and slag me mercilessly if you catch me at it! And I’m inviting you to take the pledge, too!
Here is my pledge. This feels like a big step. Here goes!
I pledge, as of NOW, to abandon social media networks when I’m at work! Pledge with me!
I am at work weekdays at least from 8 a.m. until 5 p.m. Eastern, taking noon until 1 p.m. for lunch; and also from 9:00 p.m. until 11 p.m.; on Infobitt.
I want to do as well as I can on it! So I hereby pledge to abandon social media networks when I am at work. Hold me to it and slag me mercilessly (after your work) if you catch me at it!
I am @lsanger on Twitter, larry.sanger on Facebook, Larry Sanger on Quora, and Larry Sanger on YouTube. Hold me to my pledge!
Exceptions are very, very narrowly limited to: posts and discussion about Infobitt; also, holidays and declared sick days.
Checking for responses on any network is permitted only if I recently posted something work-related, and I might actually get a response.
I also promise to track my friends’ pledges. If I notice a broken pledge, I will call them on it!
If you, too, want to take the pledge, then post a copy of your pledge to all social media networks you spend time on. Feel free to double down by adding your pledge to the bottom of this page: http://larrysanger.org/2015/06/take-the-pledge/ . Make sure to include your pledge somewhere on your user page, not just as a separate post, so you and others will not forget your pledge. Do make a video of yourself (here’s mine) reading a written version of your pledge on any video networks of yours, like YouTube.
Work hard, and then play hard!
Wow. I hope this is the right decision. I think it is. It feels like a big one. I’m actually very excited!
OK, are you ready to take the “No Social Media During Work” pledge with me? Come on, DO IT! Not only will you get more work done and feel better about yourself, if you post it publicly on all your networks, then you can help improve the productivity of the world! And you can publicize your own social media presence. It’s a massive win for everybody!
Come on, somebody write an app to catch me and others in violations, and I’ll use it (the iPhone version) and link to it!
Here’s a pledge form you can fill out:
I pledge, as of NOW, to abandon social media networks when I’m at work! Pledge with me!
I am at work weekdays at least [ list your work hours; list breaks if you want, though I didn’t list any, except for lunch] on [your company, project, school, etc.—optional].
I want to do as well as I can on it! So I hereby pledge to abandon social media networks when I am at work. Hold me to it and slag me mercilessly (after your work) if you catch me at it!
I am ___ on Twitter, ___ on Facebook, [ list other social networks similarly]. Hold me to my pledge!
Exceptions are very, very narrowly limited to: [ list exceptions as carefully as necessary]; also, holidays and declared sick days.
Checking for responses on any network is permitted only if I recently posted something work-related, and I might actually get a response.
I also promise to track my friends’ pledges. If I notice a broken pledge, I will call them on it!
If you, too, want to take the pledge, then post a copy of your pledge to all social media networks you spend time on. Make sure to include your pledge somewhere on your user pages, not just as a separate post, so you and others will not forget your pledge. Do make a video of yourself reading a written version of your pledge on any video networks of yours, like YouTube.
Work hard, and then play hard!
Well, are you in?
This study examines whether school climate compensates, mediates, or moderates the relationship among student and school SES and mathematics test scores from a nationally representative sample of 5th and 8th grade schools in Israel.
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Drawing on data from the Gates Foundation’s Measures of Effective Teaching project, this article raises several issues involved in identifying “high leverage” teaching practices based on their relationships with different types of student outcome measures.
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Currently, we focus on the technical and social appropriateness of educator evaluation systems; should we consider adding ethical notions of fairness to enrich evaluation and situate it within a task that has an essential ethical dimension? This commentary explores why ethics is a useful additive framework focusing on the professional act of teaching.
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