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MATTHEW HAMMOND
Aspiring Social Studies Teacher,
former Antitrust Enforcer & Dad
The Northern Lights near Reykjavík, Iceland (Feb. 2023, MCHammond)
Magritte's Missives


Inspired to refocus
Right now, I'm a bit lost lost and overwhelmed as the Trump administration undermines democracy, rejects the established meaning of the...
Matthew Hammond
Sep 122 min read
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Political Interference at the Antitrust Division
If you weren't aware of it, federal antitrust settlements are subject to the Tunney Act, Pub. L. 93–528, § 2, 88 Stat. 1706 (1974) ,...
Matthew Hammond
Sep 62 min read
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Conscience
For my last currere blog post of the year, William Ayers' Teaching with Conscience in an Imperfect World: An Invitation gives me my...
Matthew Hammond
Dec 20, 20243 min read
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Social Studies Rocks!
In this post, I expect to focus on the analytical and turn of the currere cycle even though as a preservice teacher, I lack a classroom...
Matthew Hammond
Dec 11, 20243 min read
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Curriculum as Culture
I had really not considered curriculum to be something more than a roadmap for lessons in a class, but I find the different ways of...
Matthew Hammond
Oct 31, 20248 min read
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A Currere State of Mind
As I dive further into my classes preparing to be a high school social studies teacher, this is the first of a series of blog posts using...
Matthew Hammond
Oct 30, 20248 min read
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WoW (NCL)
The last chapter of A New Culture of Learning (NCL) focuses on World of WarCraft  (WoW), a massively multiplayer online game (or MMO),...
Matthew Hammond
Oct 19, 20243 min read
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NYT's Flashback Quiz
My new favorite online quiz is the New York Time 's weekly history quiz— Flashback . One at a time, it presents 8 events in history that...
Matthew Hammond
Oct 12, 20241 min read
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Digressions (NCL)
The themes in the next three chapters sent me on a few digressions as I pondered the absorption of tacit knowledge, the need to focus on...
Matthew Hammond
Oct 7, 20245 min read
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Learning from the Collective (NCL)
First, I'll get this out of my system since it is the first thing I think of whenever I hear the word "collective." We are the Borg. You...
Matthew Hammond
Oct 1, 20243 min read
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Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes (NCL)
Chapters 2 and 3 of A New Culture of Learning (NCL ) immediately evoke David Bowie's Changes : Another post related to A New Culture of...
Matthew Hammond
Sep 21, 20242 min read
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A New Culture of Learning (NCL)
I am reading Douglas Thomas & John Seely Brown's A New Culture of Learning: Cultivating the Imagination for a World of Constant Change...
Matthew Hammond
Aug 31, 20246 min read
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It's a start . . .
Previously, I was on Blogger, but posted on rare occasions. As I transition from federal antitrust enforcer to high school social studies...
Matthew Hammond
Aug 31, 20241 min read
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