I am an excellent (written) test-taker. I am good at educated guessing. I am (or used to be at least) also really good at memorizing. I educated-guessed my way through the final exam of a biology course for which I had skipped almost all the classes to score a B. I could stay up the night (or two nights in a row) before an organic chemistry exam ( Read more... )

I heard a talk a few months ago here from one Professor Mary Poplin from Claremont (whom, when I opened e-mails about her, I kept confusing with Mary Poppins) partly regarding her studies on high performing teachers in low performing schools ( Read more... )