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Andrew Ordover The basic idea for "The Cat Came Back" came from a story I wrote all the way back in high school--long before I wrote "Cool for Cats" or even thought …moreThe basic idea for "The Cat Came Back" came from a story I wrote all the way back in high school--long before I wrote "Cool for Cats" or even thought of my jazz-playing investigaor. I realized that the drugs-in-school mystery I had written about (badly!) a long time ago could easily become Jordy's next case, with the original main character fading a bit into the background.(less)
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The Cause-and-Effect Fallacy

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I ended last week’s post with the Yiddish proverb, “Man plans, God laughs.” Let’s start there.

So much of our conversation around education has become transactional. It’s always been a little transactional—do work; get grades. But now it seems to be the entire thing. What are you getting for your tax dollars in your local schools? What are y

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