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The Mystery of the Missing Bylines in Standardized Tests, or One Problem in K-12 Assessment

July 10, 2014 Leslie Hall Leave a Comment

The Mystery of the Missing Bylines in Standardized Tests, or One Problem in K-12 Assessment

If indeed I have, as I like to brag (we take our pleasures where we find them), millions and millions of readers, then why am I not famous? And if not famous, at least why isn't my name fairly well known among K-12 students and their teachers? This interesting question isn't … [Read more...]

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The Questions We Need to Ask

September 7, 2012 Leslie Hall Leave a Comment

The Questions We Need to Ask

We go along in our lives and sometimes happen upon a revelation that changes our perspective, our understanding--it might even radically alter the whole of our inner landscape. We find that the world as we know it is not, all previous appearances to the contrary, the world as it … [Read more...]

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If, Then

August 29, 2012 Leslie Hall Leave a Comment

If you're always dreamed of writing a novel, National Novel Writing Month is coming up. More here.If you're ever made a mistake, you might want to exploit it exorcise it work through it and let it go by writing about it for a contest. More here.If you need deadlines to … [Read more...]

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Writer, editor, educator, mentor, consultant. English language arts educational assessment and curriculum expert. [About Me]

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For fun. Because it's Friday, and because when you're a writer, you need to wander sometimes. Always … [Read More...]

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Words to Live By

Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose -- a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
-- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Our own lives are the instruments with which we experiment with the truth.
-- Thich Nhat Hanh

If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.
-- Mark Twain

...it is always the best policy to tell the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar.
-- Jerome K. Jerome

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From The Guide to Wrangling Freelancers: Help Freelancers Love Their Work

September 11, 2014 By Leslie Hall Leave a Comment


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“All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.” In the immortal words of Aristotle. The question is does work have to make people miserable? (If you don’t know whether you hate your job, you can take this quiz to find out.) I propose that it doesn’t; we don’t all have to feel like drafthorses harnessed to pull wagons of concrete. Bearing in mind that drafthorses have no choice. We do.
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