Locke and Loaded
The latest episode in the complex relationships among local school districts, charter-school organizers, and teachers unions is the petition of teachers and parents at Los Angeles’s Locke High School to have the school converted to charter status under Green Dot. Eduwonk Andy Rotherham picks the United Teachers of Los Angeles quote from down in the […]
Who steals the joy from reading?
My favorite lines from Timothy Burke’s latest blog are at the end: You can’t get back to loving reading by cheerless attacks on whatever academic fashion annoys you. Love and pleasure require generosity. No miser will ever know them as they can be known. On the other hand, while I suspect that’s a sidelong swipe […]
The (Vain) Education Reformer’s Commandments
The first version… I am the LORD Publicity, who brought thee out of the land of Peoria, out of the house where you are not a household name and are never quoted by Education Week. Thou shalt have no other gods before Me.
Pithy wisdom will wait
Last night as I was driving around on a few errands, I listened to part of This American Life‘s 10 Commandments episode. This morning, a clever idea from that popped into my head, but I’m afraid I’ve been spending time on journal editing tasks–reading reviewer reports and sending out some disposition letters, starting with the […]
From the jury room
By Sherman Dorn on May 7, 2007
Your Verdict is nothing, you play upon the Court; I say you shall go together, and bring in another Verdict, or you shall starve; and I will have you carted about the City, as in Edward the third’s time. The new state courthouse in downtown Tampa has a much better jury waiting room than the […]
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