Yearly benchmarks and assessments saturate the current educational climate. We
set expectations; we test; we measure. The results determine what we—students,
educators, administrators, government overseers and parents—declare good, or not
good,
Not recognizing himself
He wanted only himself. He had chosen
From all the faces he had ever seen
Only his own. He was himself
The torturer who now began his torture.
—Ted Hughes,
Frederico Fellini’s 1963 film 8½ is brilliant for many reasons I won’t pretend
to fully understand. But at the center of all its nuance is Fellini’s ego. In 8½
, Fellini
There seems to be a generational disconnect around technology. Millenials
eagerly gobble up iPads and Facebook while their parents tut and whine about
internet culture. Social scientists bemoan the consequences of smartphones while
