cross-posted at The G Bitch Spot See Teachers’ Unions or Teachers’ Unions? for Canada’s answer to Colbert’s…
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Sir Ken Robinson: Do Schools Destroy Creativity?
A fair question as we uproot, upend, redo, repaint, revamp schools in the name of “reform”—what IS it that we are trying to achieve?
Geoffrey Canada of the Harlem Children’s Zone on The Colbert Report Jan. 4, 2011: Stephen Colbert: Who’s…
cross-posted at The G Bitch Spot In every high school I’ve been in this semester, charter or…
cross-posted at The G Bitch Spot
G Bitch to Sixth District NOPD: I live on the street where the shooting was Sunday and there’s a bullet in my neighbor’s wall.
Sixth District to G Bitch: Well, the scene has already been processed so we don’t need it but if your neighbor needs something, like for insurance or something, she can call and have an officer come out to write a report. All right?
cross-posted at The G Bitch Spot
Ravitch responds to the outcome of the DC mayoral race, one frequently called a referendum on Michelle Rhee, and the narratives generated about the outcome and the recent charter movement’s main narrative. [Which she neatly sums up at the end–read all the way through for the full effect]
In the closing days of the Fenty campaign, [Rhee] went to the districts where Fenty had his strongest support—the largely white districts in the city’s Northwest section—to rally voters.
Over at Back of Town.
Exhibit A: Fox News VP: If McCain Worker ‘Mutilation’ Story Is a Hoax His Campaign Is ‘Over’…
Teaching is fun and joyous but also hard as fucking hell, especially if you give a quarter of a shit, at whatever level you teach. You feel crazy, torn between your instinct and drive to care, push, cajole and scaffold and the occasional need, depending on your circumstances, to distance, withdraw, erect taller boundaries, or just stop for a while.
If passed, Colorado’s Amendment 48 will define a fertilized human egg as a person: WHAT VOTERS WILL…
crossposted at Humid City and The Spot: G Bitch
Can’t see The Spot right now. Until this blows over, you’ll see me here and at Humid…
Someone left a fantastic comment on a flickr photo of mine–I’ve posted the photo below along with…