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- Things I learned at the 2020 FAIR Mormon Conference, Part 1 - August 10, 2020 - comments
- Deep reading and the ACT Test - October 7, 2018 - comments
- Engaging the real questions might be fun - May 11, 2018 - comments
- The dying of the light - January 1, 2018 - comments
- Mobs, Part 6 (final) - September 4, 2017 - comments
- Mobs, Part 5 - September 4, 2017 - comments
- Mobs, Part 4 - September 4, 2017 - comments
- Mobs, Part 3 - September 4, 2017 - comments
- Mobs, Part 2 - September 4, 2017 - comments
- Mobs, Part 1 - September 4, 2017 - comments
- Freedom and the Rules of Life (part 2 of 3) - July 29, 2017 - comments
- Freedom and the laws of life, Part 1 - July 20, 2017 - comments
- Escape from nowhere: more reasons for community-centered schools - July 4, 2017 - comments
- Witch hunt! “It’s dangerous to believe” –Part 2 - July 2, 2016 - comments
- Reading “It’s Dangerous to Believe” – Part One - July 1, 2016 - comments
- The way of the teacher, Part 1 - June 18, 2016 - comments
- Getting back to the garden - May 1, 2016 - comments
- Making choice our god - January 3, 2016 - comments
- No end to work - January 3, 2016 - comments
- The way we were - January 1, 2016 - comments
- Free choice in 200 AD - December 20, 2015 - comments
- Montana Nature Narratives (at the Missoula Book Festival) - September 12, 2015 - comments
- Protected: Write Away - July 24, 2015 - comments
- End of the line - July 22, 2015 - comments
- Are there really “laws of life”? - July 3, 2015 - comments
- Do school dress codes still make any sense? - January 3, 2015 - comments
- Politics or morality? A knowledge of good and evil - December 23, 2014 - comments
- Needed: sound teaching about the rules of life and the secrets of happiness - December 21, 2014 - comments
- Can we fight evil without imitating it? - November 26, 2014 - comments
- A few thoughts on planning an oral history project in China - November 2, 2014 - comments
- Love and death at the Heartbreak Hotel - August 17, 2014 - comments
- Beyond Good and Evil - August 12, 2014 - comments
- The spread of ideology and dogmatism in the school reform movement - July 15, 2014 - comments
- Badlands: life sans religion, sans philosophy - June 22, 2014 - comments
- Noah: a tawdry bit of pretention - April 15, 2014 - comments
- The journey to here - April 15, 2014 - comments
- Is justice present, or forever becoming? - April 14, 2014 - comments
- By the dim and flaring lamps - April 13, 2014 - comments
- The local always includes the global (in ways ideologues may not grasp) - March 19, 2014 - comments
- Philodendron Rules (teaching the vision of goodness) - March 15, 2014 - comments
- Saving a remnant: most children left behind? - March 15, 2014 - comments
- Teaching in the post-literate age - January 19, 2014 - comments
- Getting family right: we learn by our mistakes (if all else fails) - January 17, 2014 - comments
- The lawyer explicitly identifies morality itself as the target - December 14, 2013 - comments
- The mendacity is the meaning - December 1, 2013 - comments
- Literature never failed us; we abandoned it - November 3, 2013 - comments
- The third reality: a brief introduction - October 30, 2013 - comments
- The Third Reality is missing from Breaking Bad - October 27, 2013 - comments
- Teachers should be accountable–but to whom? - October 13, 2013 - comments
- The buck in the garden - September 14, 2013 - comments
- What does “The Butler” teach about America’s racial experience? - August 28, 2013 - comments
- Constructing the choice regime - July 26, 2013 - comments
- The Unwinding: an inner history of the new America by George Packer, review - July 23, 2013 - comments
- Free ebook on placemaking - July 23, 2013 - comments
- Loyalty to family and place?–or to career and calling? - July 22, 2013 - comments
- Irony and multiculturalists and a sense of place - July 20, 2013 - comments
- The long, slow crisis of the humanities - July 16, 2013 - comments
- A lynch mob is an extreme form of gossip - July 16, 2013 - comments
- Was the world more beautiful 100 years ago? - July 15, 2013 - comments
- Differences between science and religion - July 15, 2013 - comments
- The limits of equality: hierarchy and order - July 12, 2013 - comments
- Save the culture? First, we must save ourselves - July 10, 2013 - comments
- It only seems like a story about hollyhocks - July 8, 2013 - comments
- Questions for close reading (graphic) - June 25, 2013 - comments
- The ALERT processes: student research beyond copy and paste - June 25, 2013 - comments
- Narrative Environment: Two views of Virginia City, 1863 - June 25, 2013 - comments
- Enchantment - June 25, 2013 - comments
- Leading students into engagement - June 25, 2013 - comments
- True stories in an age of fictions - June 23, 2013 - comments
- Beyond good and evil: complying with the Montana Behavioral Initiative - December 15, 2012 - comments
- Digital natives, constructivism, etc - November 25, 2012 - comments
- A moral compass in a political wilderness - November 18, 2012 - comments
- *The Lower Flathead River* is a beautiful and useful book - November 12, 2012 - comments
- Will CCSS survive its implementation? - November 4, 2012 - comments
- Changing geographies of possibility - October 24, 2012 - comments
- Contextualizing Tribal Sovereignty - October 21, 2012 - comments
- Heritage and history: What are we doing? - October 14, 2012 - comments
- What we choose to spend time thinking about - October 13, 2012 - comments
- Context: trying to tell the larger story - October 10, 2012 - comments
- Remembering the songs - October 8, 2012 - comments
- The Search - September 22, 2012 - comments
- Extreme equality and the plight of the poor - July 15, 2012 - comments
- Learning how stories matter - July 15, 2012 - comments
- Bad stories: I own myself - March 5, 2012 - comments
- Bad stories: my tribe is better than your tribe - March 3, 2012 - comments
- Bad stories: high school for careerists - February 26, 2012 - comments
- Why deconstruction is a fool’s game - February 12, 2012 - comments
- Intelligent Desire - January 15, 2012 - comments
- Teaching ignobility - January 3, 2012 - comments
- The enchanted cave, part 1 - January 3, 2012 - comments
- Why things fall apart - December 23, 2011 - comments
- Why literature matters - December 18, 2011 - comments
- Truth and its envious imitators - November 25, 2011 - comments
- On “reading” the great books - November 20, 2011 - comments
- The culture of public schools - November 19, 2011 - comments
- Could we restore a liberal education? - November 19, 2011 - comments
- Contemplating Failure (poetry) - November 4, 2011 - comments
- A new counterculture: beyond the dead zone - October 27, 2011 - comments
- Teaching amid time, change and the invisible world - October 23, 2011 - comments
- The moral confusion of young people - October 22, 2011 - comments
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