Posts by Wes Carroll
How to Be a Bright(er) Student: Be Your Own Pilot
Spring is the busiest time of the year for most high school students. In addition to finals (be it AP, IB or otherwise), some of ...
Say NO to ROPO (In Private Education)
Return On Planned Obsolescence (ROPO), I have recently learned, is basically the extra money Apple gets when people buy a new phone while their old ...
What’s Wrong With Math Education
"Math punk" Tom Henderson has written a brilliant essay that I have co-opted and edited here. In a nutshell, what is the problem with math education ...
Put A Little Math In Your Life!
Brian Greene makes the point about science, and it holds just as true for math: "We rob science education of life when we focus solely ...
What’s wrong with standardized tests for teachers?
Well, I really mean to answer "what's wrong with using the results of students' standardized tests to evaluate teacher performance?" On its surface, nothing. Indeed, ...
Cheating On The SAT
The thing I can't get out of my head when I read this NYT article on kids paying other kids to take the SAT for ...
MIT Offers Best ROI
A recent study claims that an MIT education offers better ROI (Return on Investment) than that of any other undergrad institution. As an alum, I'm ...
22: Split the check
Last week, two of my friends and I went to a restaurant and had a lovely meal. We decided to evenly split the check, so ...
A Different Kind Of “Underserved”
What if the 32nd individual on the planet to achieve a nuclear-fusion reaction were only 14 years old? It's not science fiction. And the article ...
The Power Of The Nudge
My friend and colleague Jai Flicker just posted this lovely essay on the time he knew just what to say to a student to make ...
