I formerly taught a computer science course each term here at UMass Boston. My day job was as a software engineer at various companies, most recently at Ab Initio. I am now fully retired; I retired from teaching at UMass Boston in 2022 and from my full-time job in July, 2024. email: offner "at" cs.umb.edu This is the best address to use when sending me email, because email here also gets forwarded to me at home. |
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(Some of) what I was doing for a living as a software engineer:
Here are some expository papers I am putting up for public enjoyment:
And here are my thoughts on some issues in secondary school science and mathematics education. The paper looks at—and gives reasons for rejecting—three principles that have been widely promoted in recent educational reform debates. These principles were in particular popularized around 1980-2000 by Theodore Sizer and his Coalition of Essential Schools, but in fact, they are really older than that, and never seem to die out: