Summer reading
I'm trying to catch up this summer on reading that's piling up in the Kindle. Aside from beach novels -- I've reloaded The Ninth Wave by Eugene Burdick, a favorite from my ill-spent youth in L.A.. Burdick also authored popular '60s reads, The Ugly American and Fail Safe -- I'm trying to get to the serious stuff.
On top of the new pile is Charter Schools and the Corporate Makeover of Public Education: What's at Stake? by Michelle Fineand Michael Fabricant. It came out a year ago but I'm just getting to it. I try and keep up with everything Michelle writes but it's an impossible task -- she's prolific.
Sports writer supreme, Dave Zirin wrote this great piece, Rahm Emanuel's Zombie Pigs vs. Chicago's Angry Birds, in The Nation, back in May. Just got to it. It's a take-down of Rahm's insane plan to build a new basketball stadium for DePaul, which fellow sports writer Rick Telander calls, "a new arena of stupidity," with millions in tax payer dollars -- money that could be used to save our schools.
Chicago teacher Greg Michie, author of We Don't Need Another Hero and Holler if you hear me, has a strong response today to Rahm and Byrd-Bennett's "students-first" mantra.
Sports writer supreme, Dave Zirin wrote this great piece, Rahm Emanuel's Zombie Pigs vs. Chicago's Angry Birds, in The Nation, back in May. Just got to it. It's a take-down of Rahm's insane plan to build a new basketball stadium for DePaul, which fellow sports writer Rick Telander calls, "a new arena of stupidity," with millions in tax payer dollars -- money that could be used to save our schools.
Chicago teacher Greg Michie, author of We Don't Need Another Hero and Holler if you hear me, has a strong response today to Rahm and Byrd-Bennett's "students-first" mantra.
What's happening in Chicago schools -- and in many other places across the