Ilana Lipowicz

ilipowi1@binghamton.edu

16 Articles


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Privilege is not a dirty word

Do your best with what you were given. There is an added pressure for those of us who were born with certain advantages. ...


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Standardized test scores should be used responsibly

With their fates independent of their students' performances, teachers will better serve their students. ...


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Limit social media use on mobile phones to remain present

If you’re a chronic phone-checker, you know that as long as you’ve got your phone on your person, you cannot be fully involved in whatever situation you’re in IRL. ...


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Do not let your work define your identity

Even those who do make a career out of their passions often find that what made them passionate about the subject is absent from their career. ...


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The key to living well is trusting our instincts

Trends in thought rise and fall with such ease that it's become an impossible task to make sense of all them ...


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Use your online anonymity responsibly

The ability to act anonymously skews our perceptions of reality by creating situations in which actions are detached from their consequences ...


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It's OK if we're not all on the same page

This unity that comes from a common pool of literature is positive in many ways, but without variation between our individual libraries, we lose out on a lot. ...


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We've lost a sense of purpose in academic writing

The art of letter writing is all but dead for the simple reason that we no longer have a need for it. ...


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Common core stifles classroom freedom

Taking control of the classroom is the government’s way of saying they do not trust teachers to teach. ...


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Being alone is the key to being yourself

However you identify on the introvert- extrovert scale, you are your most honest self when you are alone. ...