Last week’s column on artificial intelligence drew a lot of interest. Here are two responses. Q. As a teacher for over 30 years,10 at the college level, I struggle to find any glimmer of positive in the AI craze. I repeatedly told my students in the last years to write their own papers; when ...
My high school band director (who quit and became a priest) had just been discharged from the Army. He lived by the motto: “If you aren’t at least 15 minutes early, you are late.” I can remember him standing at the door, and if you arrived late, you got paddled. Up until the mid-70’s, ...
In a span of four years - from 2020 to 2024 - Democrats lost 2.1 million registered voters in the 30 states where registration by party takes place. This includes Pennsylvania. In the six years from 2018 to 2024, the Republican percentage of new voters rose by 9% while Democrats fell 8%, a ...
Q. I start high school soon. In my freshman orientation packet there was a note saying AI is not permitted. I get that they don’t want us to write our papers using AI, but isn’t AI what you use when you search online? Do you think they’re saying we can’t do that? That’s unrealistic. ...
Among other things that he alone decides, President Trump this past week pondered who might be honored by the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Kennedy Center Honors is an extravaganza of the first magnitude, in addition to being a sumptuous trove of television images and ...
The phrase “health care” in health care administration was a complete oxymoron and the least healthy job of my career, and remember, I started as a junior high band director. That music teaching job had me in a room with 120 tweens and teenagers, all armed with loud instruments and a ...
