Michael Pershan

This is a very nice link where you can buy my book: amazon.com/Teaching-Math-…

If you're a dude this is now your whole internet.

I really enjoyed Peter Brooks' "Seduced by Story." Got me thinking deeply about what exactly a story is, but I'm otherwise pretty clueless about theory and criticism and stuff. Any suggestions on something worth reading next, preferably something not terribly painful?

Tried using chatgpt to help me work on conversational hebrew. It's so close to being helpful but refuses to identify mistakes and correct my sentences that you almost have to trick it into being a good teacher.

Thought provoking stuff on the idea of Jewish "peoplehood." youtube.com/watch?v=7dC4hB…

"[I]f you only read work coming from one field, you’re sometimes going to get a skewed sense of the issues and the evidence." Different goals are sought in different fields, and a field's relative prestige can make a huge difference in awareness.

Up on the education blog, I answer a question about how to get into reading research as a non-researcher. And I don't even care that they kill links on this site. I'm not going to type out s*******. Substack substack substack substack. Whatever. pershmail.substack.com/p/help-i-want-…

I'm all for literally anyone criticizing schools, but there's a kind of critic whose main access to what's going on in classrooms are social media posts and those people tend to post stupid things so don't do that if you want to be smart.

"Decision time, mamas, should we live amongst the wolves? Should we leave society behind and give in to our most base instincts?" pointsincase.com/articles/lets-…

For sale, baby shoes, wood chipper.

Hang him again.

mountain poem 22/31: Bill Corbett, from his Columbus Square Journal (1974–1975). I love “I will be the man who owes” as a line, and the poet’s name as an ending~

Covers a massive amount of ground on that 4th one.