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Archive for August 1st, 2007

Rotherham Watch: A family fight?

Posted by: preaprez on: 01 Aug, 2007

Hanging out with the bad kids.
Sara Mead, who guest-blogged for Andy Rotherham’s Eduwonk is talking about somebody. I wonder who?
Rhetoric about education and social justices isn’t enough—particularly since that’s the very thing some of our audience find suspect. Liberal education reformers need to win hearts and minds by engaging with reform-wary lefties and taking [...]

Chicago’s juvenile detention center is a mess.

Posted by: preaprez on: 01 Aug, 2007

Take note of this in today’s Chicago Sun-Times:
Woes at the Cook County Juvenile Temporary Detention Center have been well-documented over the last eight years since a federal lawsuit was filed to demand better conditions at the West Side facility. Complaints of physically abusive guards, unclean conditions, lack of mental health access and, recently, dirty underwear, [...]

Antonioni.

Posted by: preaprez on: 01 Aug, 2007

 
Films by Michaelangelo Antonioni:
Gente del Po (People of the Po, 1943)
Nettezza urbana (Dustmen, 1948)
Oltre l’oblio (1948)
Roma-Montevideo (1948)
L’amorosa menzogna (1949)
Sette cani e un vestito (1949)
Bomarzo (1949)
Ragazze in bianco (1949)
Superstizione (1949)
La villa dei mostri (The House of Monsters, 1950)
Cronaca di un amore (Chronicle of a Love, 1950)
La funivia del Faloria (1950)
I Vinti (The Vanquished) (1952)
La signora senza [...]

Republican Ed Agenda? Nope. Dems.

Posted by: preaprez on: 01 Aug, 2007

Andy sits on the board of DFER
The Republican agenda for 2008?
We support policies which stimulate the creation of new, accountable public schools and which simultaneously close down failing schools.
We support mechanisms that allow parents to select excellent schools for their children, and where education dollars follow each child to their school.
We support governance structures which [...]

“Chavez” is more than a name.

Posted by: preaprez on: 01 Aug, 2007

Professor Dorn asked for context. Casey gives him some.

Sherman Dorn, on his eponymous blog, couldn’t understand why Mike Klonsky’s Small Talk and Leo Casey on Edwize were making such a big deal out of anti-union charter operators naming schools after Cesar Chavez and Martin Luther King.
Dorn said:
For the record, what I know is that some [...]