Commentary

Mixing AI and thought leadership undercuts your authority and expertise

By JENNIFER CLANCY If you think you’re clever for using AI to generate that seemingly provocative thought leadership article, you might be right. Unfortunately, in the arena of credible expertise, such actions play out less as shrewd and come off more as cunning.   Sure, some tasks are perfect for delegation to AI, like optimizing workflows, […]

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Minding the gap: We love defining and tracking it — but closing it seems more out of reach than ever.

KLOWTIFY Commentary Team Today is all about the gap. Everything seems to have one: The student achievement gap; the pay equity gap; the gender gap; the racial gap; the language gap; the literacy gap; the wealth gap; the affective healthcare gap; the economic and gender confidence gaps. The American mind embraces the gap as a given, the distance between, the distinction. A gap inherently defines the haves from the have-nots. It frames the struggle. And

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Fixing racism and sexism in performance evaluations will take a lot more than metrics

KLOWTIFY Commentary Team Seeing a headline like the one that ran in the The Chronicle of Higher Education — “Teaching Evaluations Are Racist, Sexist, and Often Useless” — instantly transported me to a time in my 20s when I was a student teacher. On the surface, my experience was positive: I was hired. What I

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