January 2011
55 posts
“Let’s call seniority seniority, and stop directing insulting, dehumanizing...”
– JD, because he’s usually right.
Seniority is for people; “LIFO” is for inventory. Get it straight. « JD2718
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“The folks at “American Idol” could have also reported that the...”
– Gerson Borrero
I’m not a fan of American Idol, but this makes sense.
‘Idol’ and The Bronx - NYPOST.com
“And when you ask me about Barack Obama, it is exactly what happened to Kennedy....”
– Harry Belafonte, on Obama
“He Plays the Game that He Plays Because He Sees No Threat from Evidencing Concerns for the Poor”
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“The richest 1% of New York City controls 44% of all income, “a share...”
– - Joe Coscarelli
NYC Income Gap Is the Widest in the U.S. - New York News - Runnin’ Scared
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“it’s inevitable that we’ve got to bring out the question of the tragic mix-up in...”
– Martin Luther King, Jr. (via warispeace)
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“That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald (via contrive)
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“Schools Chancellor Cathie Black joked that there’s a simple solution to...”
– - Rachel Monahan, NY Daily News
Why do chancellors here always feel it’s OK to tell parents of public school kids that they shouldn’t exist?
Parents not laughing at Schools Chancellor Cathie Black’s ‘birth control’ overcrowding joke
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“The whole educational and professional training system is a very elaborate...”
– Noam Chomsky (via mohandasgandhi)
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“In the past weeks, several highly-placed diplomatic and Haitian establishment...”
– - Isabeau Doucet
The Nation: NGOs Have Failed Haiti : NPR
“Rewarding teachers with bonus pay, in the absence of any other support programs,...”
– Teacher performance pay alone does not raise student test scores | News | Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tennessee
Thanks to Diane Ravitch.
“The thing is, it’s tough to understand the complexity of teaching if...”
– - Gregory Michie, author of one of my favorite books, Holler If You Hear Me
The Answer Sheet - How to be taken seriously as a reformer (don’t be an educator)
“In other words, “teacher evaluations based on observed state test outcomes are...”
– - Mike Klonsky.
Read more at Mike Klonsky’s SmallTalk Blog: Gates’ ‘value-added’ study is full of holes
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“Consider the extremes. President Obama is redesigning his administration to make...”
– - Bob Herbert, my favorite writer in the NY Times right now. Sorry, Paul Krugman.
Misery With Plenty of Company - NYTimes.com
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“The original sin of Haiti on the world stage is its liberation. Haitians...”
– Speaking Truth to Power: Ricardo Seitenfus, the OAS and Haiti (via so-treu)
True. “The West” remains a world of colonialism and racism with wealth based on exploitation. But “the West” is not “the world”. I’d actually flip that: Haiti is the world and the colonial powers are an unruly minority to...
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Watchgreenstate:
i can’t even use words to explain how amazing this is. i love you, keith olbermann. and your cold cold heart.
I remember when he first said that Sarah Palin’s hair trigger ads would inspire people to openly shoot at others, especially government officials. And now, this.
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“The United States has the highest incarceration rate in the industrialized...”
– Imprisoned Intellectuals: America’s Political Prisoners Write on Life, Liberation, and Rebellion - library.nu (via beyond-school)
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“I have the urge to declare my sanity and justify my actions, but I assume...”
– - Bill Zeller, in his last letter before his suicide.
The Agonizing Last Words of Programmer Bill Zeller
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“What, then, is truth? A mobile army of metaphors, metonymies, anthropomorphisms,...”
– Friedrich Nietzsche, On Truth and Lying in a Non-Moral Sense (via ontologicalterrorist)
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