{"id":1053,"date":"2007-08-27T19:47:57","date_gmt":"2007-08-27T23:47:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shermandorn.com\/wordpress\/?p=1053"},"modified":"2007-08-27T19:47:57","modified_gmt":"2007-08-27T23:47:57","slug":"bloggy-bon-mots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/?p=1053","title":{"rendered":"Bloggy bon mots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First, from&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.quickanded.com\/2007\/08\/gifted-children-and-scourge-of.html\">Kevin Carey<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[W]e&#8217;ve reached the point where people are actually arguing, with a straight face, that the real crisis in American education is the shameful neglect&#8211;the <em>injustice<\/em>&#8211;of how we educate smart white men.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Next, from Miriam Burstein (aka <a href=\"http:\/\/littleprofessor.typepad.com\/the_little_professor\/2007\/08\/first-days-inde.html\">The Little Professor<\/a>):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Number of leftover bite-sized chocolate cupcakes from yesterday&#8217;s department picnic consumed this afternoon: 2\n<li>Number of calories in those cupcakes, thanks to the Laws of Academic Calories: 0\n<li>Number of books involving cannibalism on the honors comp syllabus: 3<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Update<\/em>: Third, from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.profgrrrrl.com\/2007\/08\/primal-scream-faculty-style.html\">profgrrrrl<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>I miss primal scream &#8212; only my time to scream is no longer the end of the semester. It&#8217;s the beginning. So:<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 130%; color: rgb(255,0,0)\">Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarggggggggh!!!!!!!!<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>My accomplishments are far less witty. In the last few days I have dropped one child off at school, finished my syllabi, <em>orient<\/em>ed one online masters class, taught an in-person undergraduate class, procrastinated planning Wednesday&#8217;s advanced graduate class, picked the other child up from school, come home, helped clean up after a bearded dragon, and eaten chocolate. I am sure I have done other things, and these are all important, but right now I have no capacity for the angry elegance of Carey, Burstein&#8217;s eye for irony<em>, or profgrrrrl&#8217;s refreshing honesty [updated]<\/em>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First, from&nbsp;Kevin Carey: [W]e&#8217;ve reached the point where people are actually arguing, with a straight face, that the real crisis in American education is the shameful neglect&#8211;the injustice&#8211;of how we educate smart white men. Next, from Miriam Burstein (aka The Little Professor): Number of leftover bite-sized chocolate cupcakes from yesterday&#8217;s department picnic consumed this afternoon: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[11,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education-policy","category-teaching"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pag0MB-gZ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1053\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}