"Riot Police" at 2 AM in Madison? Maybe not . . .
see update at end
twitter is alive with breaking messages, primarily citing Mother Jones, that the riot police have been ordered to clear the Capitol at 2 AM.
I have no source that I can cite other than Mother Jones citing their sources.
I presume that the Governor hoped at that hour there would not be any press coverage.
I have to hope that people there will have contacts with the press and be able to inform them
An idea for journalists covering education
Yesterday, February 18, I attended a seminar on quality teaching sponsored jointly by the Education Writers Association and the Carnegie Corporation of New York. There were more than 50 journalists who write about education, just over a dozen educators, each of whom blogs/writes about education, and several experts who presented and took questions. I will before the holiday weekend is over write a more extensive piece about my reflections on the event.
One interesting part of the event was a dialog among the journalists and educators. In an email discussion, the educators have decided to offer some suggestions to the journalists about stories they can do to more completely tell their readers about teaching, schools, education. The first such post was by Ariel Sacks and
