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A Favorite Poem
Ulysses by Alfred Lord Tennyson It little profits that an idle king, By this still hearth, among these barren crags, Match’d with an aged wife, I mete and dole Unequal laws unto a savage race, That hoard, and sleep, and… Continue reading
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If Fish change Gender, what’s the fuss about Human Beings doing the same?
Around 500 different species of fish are able to change their gender naturally. This is in part due to the fact that unlike mammals and birds, the sex of a fish is not determined by chromosomes. Further, according to the… Continue reading
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Grappling Then and Now with Demons by Seamus Cole
This article appeared in Quadrant Online, May 19th, 2025. It is re-posted here with the kind permission of the writer, Seamus Cole, and Quadrant Online. I am increasingly reminded that what’s old is also new again” and I suspect great… Continue reading
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The Ontology of Student Agency: Are there Elephants in the room?
“Belinksy was just like Krylov’s Inquisitive Man, who didn’t notice the elephant in the museum” Demons (Dostoevsky, 2008) Abstract: This short article discusses an ontological concept of student agency within K-12 schooling. It is argued that ontologically, student agency does… Continue reading
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The Design and Evaluation of Teacher Professional Development Programs: 6 Steps towards an Integrated Values Based Framework
by Lawrence Burke Abstract: This article explores the traditional concept of teacher professional development through the filters of controlled, dependent and uncontrolled variables. Controlled variables within the teaching profession determine the outcome of all teacher professional development programs. Dependent variables… Continue reading
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Cursive Writing as Self‐Identity in an Age of Digital Determinism
by Lawrence Burke A 21st Century Context In the 1997 Sci‐Fic classic Gattaca key themes and ideas around reproductive and design technologies and their effects on the societies of the future are explored. The manipulation of our DNA is now… Continue reading
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Burden of Proof: Deconstructing Arguments and Evidence on the Origins of SARS-CoV-2.
by Lawrence Burke “In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual” Galileo Galilei Disclaimer: As a non-scientist I recognize my limitations in the understanding and interpretation of the detailed,… Continue reading
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Life and Death During A Global Pandemic-Who Gets to Live and Who Gets to Die?
by Lawrence Burke A New York hospital recently told its doctors to “think critically about who you intubate”. For the lay person that means make a decision on who lives and who dies. Yes, a disturbing but important ethical question;… Continue reading
The LB Chronicles by Lawrence Burke, Ed.D 