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Elsa Cole, served as general counsel to the NCAA for more than a dozen years. While there, she talked about her career path and work combining the law through education and sports in this interview as part of Athademic. This year, she began working for the Michael & Susan Dell Foundation, which focuses on urban education, childhood health and family economic stability.
You won’t have to look far.
My neighbor is finishing a fellowship in sports medicine at Vanderbilt. He spends most of his time helping out at Vanderbilt, Belmont, Lipscomb and other university sporting events—home and not too far away.
Someone must have designed ESPN’s Big Blue mobile broadcast station for the Women’s World Cup. Someone else must have built it, someone else must be driving it.
And there must be dozens of people making the Women’s World Cup happen.
The Tour? Every rider must have at least two support people behind him.
Find the jobs and leave a comment with the results of your research. What did people study to get those jobs? What was their prior experience? Were they all competitors in those sports?
I was driving on I-40 West in Tennessee Friday.
I saw a bent guard rail on the freeway. Skid marks ended before the rail, and stains remained on the pavement.
I wondered what wreckage had been there and how permanent the damage had been.
I thought of the education conference I had attended earlier in the week, and the tendency of teachers, school leaders and policymakers to take credit for the academic success of students from difficult circumstances who entered our classroom, our school, or the program our policy changes made possible. Or maybe it was someone else’s classroom, school or program.
But, who’s ultimately responsible for kids succeeding?
As I think about this, I notice a Porsche cresting the hill and barreling toward me.
Is it my job to stay in the left lane and force the Porsche to slow down?
Kids are like that Porsche. They’re full of energy and power. I can either slow them down, or I can get out of the way and create the space for them to blow by.
A little math before the big match at Wembley -
Dan Meyer, promoter of teachers being less helpful, challenges math teachers with a math problem and a teaching problem: is it always bad to play guess what the teacher’s thinking? If not, what do you do when all students guess v. when only one does?
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Football teaches business in Barcelona