- “Let Your Life Speak” (Palmer) – Easily the most inspiring essay I’ve read in a year! It’s on vocation and the big choices in life. Read it. Read it. Read it. I still want to do a full blog post on this but don’t want to hold it back until then!
- Great New Yorker article on “Teaching Doubt“
- Hasbrouck and Tindal’s (2006) “Oral reading fluency norms: a valuable assessment tool for reading teachers” – I’m currently writing a paper on the relationship between reading fluency and comprehension with Lilli Pretorius so this is all very interesting to me at the moment.
- New 2015 JET Bulletin with an interview with Nick Taylor “How can teaching become more professional?“
- Karthik Muralidharan interviews Kaushik Basu about Theory Evidence and Practice in India. I really liked the parts about how economists often take the starting point of a society as “given” and then look for pareto improvements as opposed to making moral/normative judgements about the starting distribution and how it needs to change.
- “Impact evaluation in practice” (PDF book) by Gertler et al for the World Bank – useful for those who want to know more about how to evalaute programs and the different methods that are available.
- Stanford’s most popular course isn’t about computer science, it’s about finding your vocation. The course is called “Designing your Life” (thanks Kelsey!)
- List of resources on diversity from the University of Michigan
- “An overview of South African education” – slides from my presentation at the UCT CSSR conference on Families and the State.
- “The daily failures of a typical South African school” – GroundUp article worth a read.
- CDE report (2015) on Teacher Demand and Supply.
- Uber cute high-speed photos of puppies caught mid-shake.
Nic Spaull 