Last week Devorah and I attended the Stuyvesant High School Alumni Association's annual fundraising gala. We were there as guests of the Alumni Association since, as retired teachers, gala tickets are generally out of our budget range. We had a great time. I spent time with a bunch of former students spanning the years, some current teachers I hadn't seen since I left Stuy, as well as new Stuy alums and current students.

After reading a couple of comments on my last post where I talked a bit about practitioners vs researchers I thought I'd expand and expound a bit. While there are education researchers that I very much respect, overall, I'm skeptical of education research. Note that I'm not talking specifically about CS Ed research but rather education research in general. Let's go back to the beginning. I entered teaching from industry.