Saturday morning - another reflection on teaching
which may seem a little premature. After all, I do not see students until next week. This was teacher planning week, full of meetings, setting up the classroom, making copies, and even planning. I am back in my role as a classroom teacher. I will have 6 classes, each of which will meet alternate days for 90 minutes, a new pattern for me, one requiring me to totally rethink even lessons which hav
YESTERDAY
50 Years Later
As we approach the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington, I have a gnawing in my gut, an uneasy sense of society and its racial reality. So begins Charles M. Blow, writing on the forthcoming anniversary of the August 28, 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Justice, with the famous speech by Martin Luther King Jr. (and might I note the lesser known but must-read/watch speech by the 23 year
A few thoughts on the intelligence apparatus
which I wrote in a free-flowing discussion on a private list. Since these are my thoughts, and I do not quote or refer to the words of anyone else, I feel free to share them here. Make of them what you will. ----- do not grant to the military-intelligence complex the right to determine for itself what are legitimate functions and targets of intelligence gathering. Surely in a system whose gover
Eugene Robinson: GOP in Fantasyland
The make-believe crusade by publicity-hound Republicans to somehow stop Obamacare is one of the most cynical political exercises we’ve seen in many years. And that, my friends, is saying something. That is the opening paragraph of this Washington Post column in which the Pulitzer Prize winner takes apart those Republicans who are arguing for the GOP to somehow defund or otherwise stop the continua
AUG 22
Don't worry, I haven't vanished
even though I have not even been posting comments. This is teacher prep week at my new school. I have had tons of meetings. I have had tos et up my classroom, which was somewhat interfered with because my room was one of four places for the rotations for professional development rotations on Monday morning and this morning. I hope to post a book review of a book on education over the weekend. I am
AUG 18
interesting insights on how Brits react to us
can be read as a part of Ta-Ta, London. Hello, Awesome., written by Sarah Lyall, who spent 18 years in the UK as a correspondent of sorts for the New York Times. Several paragraphs jumped out at me: And so a country where even Conservatives are proud of the nationalized health service cannot comprehend a system that leaves tens of millions of people unable to afford basic health care. A country th
AUG 17
short diary
James Madison Barbara Mikulski Eddie Gaedel and Randy Newman was NOT being serious Peace. and Bermuda