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The real writer is one who really writes. Talent is an invention like phlogiston after the fact of fire. Work is its own cure. You have to like it better than being loved. -- Marge Piercy, For the young who want to in The Moon Is Always Female. Take an ax to the prison wall. Escape. Walk out like someone suddenly born into color. Do it now. -- Rumi, Quietness |
Roldo Bartimole writes: It was good to see three school board members voted against the fire sale of the Cleveland schools downtown administration building. But wait. Unfortunately, the majority voted to sell the historic building to Drury Hotels of St. Louis. The deal: more than $4 million below the appraised price. Who’s counting the pennies? [...]
Roldo Bartimole writes: How much confidence do I – or you – have in the Cleveland Board of Education getting a fair price for the sale of its a gem of a historic downtown administration building on East 6th Street: Minus zero. Actually less. This celebrated building sits on 1.75 acres of the best situated [...]
Your browser does not support iframes. Via The Root…
[Update: 30 October at 0446 Education Standards Divided by Race (story first published at 1011 on 24 October.]
You demanded designer universities to go with your designer jeans and universities delivered. Julia Edwards writes: The way [former George Washington University President Stephen] Trachtenberg saw it, selling George Washington over the other schools was like selling one brand of vodka over another. Vodka, he points out, is a colorless, odorless liquid that varies little [...]
The day I confronted my troll: He drove me off Twitter, hacked my Facebook, and abused and terrified my family. Yet the biggest shock of all was meeting him…
Roldo Bartimole writes: The problem with school reform is that the real solution doesn’t lie in the school but outside the school – in the home, on the street, in our social life, in our justice system, in our politics, in its financing and in the poor conditions many of our children – and adults [...]
More education (graduating high school, graduating college, obtaining a Master’s degree, obtraining a PhD.) is not a solution. More appropriate education is helpful. More quality education is helpful. More targeted education is helpful. Helpful, but not the answer. None of the above, however, is worth bupkis unless there is meaningful employment with a future available [...]
I think I first heard the rule: your first answer is almost always correct, from GMM1 Giles when I was in Gunner’s Mate “A” School at Great Lakes Naval Training Center in Illinois. I’ve repeated the rule, without question, dozens of times to my students over the years. I was wrong. From Mano Singham: A [...]
1947: The implications of Chick-fil-A Appreciation Day Previously…
[Update at 1638] President Barack Hussein Obama…? Obama opposes Boy Scouts ban on gays Thank you President Obama. However: In a follow-up email, [White House spokesperson Shin] Inouye said Obama won’t resign or relinquish his position as honorary president of the Boy Scouts as result of this position. I’m OK with that, but I would [...]
Boy Scout Moms For Equality… Many well-meaning people counter that the BSA is a private organization, and as such should be able to keep whomever they want out. This is of course the same justification used to prevent minorities from eating in restaurants during the Jim Crow years. And where an organization as revered and [...]
When you want to pretend that might someday be rich enough to join the 1 Percent (or at least obtain enough of the trappings of the 1 Percent to give the impression you have), when you place value above values, when you have too much at stake to walkaway, you’ve been suborned. When the organization [...]
From Tom Peters’ Weekly Quote I can give you guidance for doing a task, but unless you “discover” your own way of doing it, you won’t own it.
Roldo Bartimole writes: On the other major piece of government business this day [note, Roldo wrote this on Thursday, 19 July, but I allowed it to slip between the cracks, sorry about that Roldo. JH] – the new housing for Cuyahoga County – I think I have the proper solution. And it will aid the [...]
I need to incorporate more of Vi Hart’s fun into my math tutoring…
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