Buyer Beware
Dear Diane,
Three days with the North Dakota Study Group restores my spirits every year. Some great speeches, small "works in progress" workshops, presentations by students, and just food and talk, talk, talk.
I read your blog this week while I was at the NDSG and passed it around. It's superb, and we should all tweet it to anyone we can think of—not just educators.
Not surprisingly, the folks at the NDSG claimed there was an ugly new mood of blaming the poor for their poverty and the unemployed for having done something wrong somewhere in the past. Probably due to bad public