| Many Oppose Compromise Plan On Cathie Black by Mary Frost (mfrost@brooklyneagle.net), published online 11-28-2010 | ||||||
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I just went through the last week or so of on-line featured articles from the on-line EdWeek edition of Education Week magazine and the Public Education Network. Looking at the state of the US institution of public education for youth from a parent’s point of view, it seems like there is still a fair amount of (to use some nautical metaphors) rearranging deck-chairs and still hoping that the water gushing into those holes in the hull being ripped open by that iceberg can be somehow contained to keep
Sit-ins at sites including Oxford, Manchester and Edinburgh gather pace ahead of next national day of action
Linked by Twitter, mobiles and old-fashioned printed flyers, 15 student occupations continued over the weekend and are set to grow before the national day of action on Tuesday
Part of the Bodleian library at Oxford, a major lecture theatre at Manchester and Appleton Tower at Edinburgh are among sites taken over for good-natured and inventive protests against the planned university fees rise and education cuts.
Art exhibitions, debates and invitations to local people to meet and discuss the issues are part of the activities at the sites, which also include Brighton, Bristol, Cambridge, Cardiff, Plymouth and London. Edinburgh students called on outside supporters to stage snowball fights in solidarity, while Oxford's Facebook page features support from
A mostly positive verdict on deal clearing way for Cathie Black to lead city's 1.1 million public schoolchildren
Jay-Z and Beyonce
I caved. After dodging some calamitous trends and memes in the social media world, I let people “inbox” me their questions, hoping no one would ask me anything too off-kilter. In previous exercises, people have done everything from asking me to predict their futures to openly wondering why I didn’t want to meet up with them. I squirmed internally and gave the most appropriate response possible (and haven’t tried to meet them since).I
NEW YORK—It can be tossed off almost harmlessly like "damn" or dropped like an F-bomb.
On the streets of New York's diverse Spanish-speaking neighborhoods, it can be heard expressing joy, frustration and outrage.
Perhaps most notoriously in pop culture, it punctuated the film dialogue of "Scarface" in 1983.
Now a public high school teacher is suing the city after he was suspended and fined $15,000 for what school officials say was misconduct for using it in his Manhattan classroom.
The word, "cono," (COHN'-yoh) can be offensive. But that sometimes depends
