Old school.
Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell.
Three over coffee.
Blago’s budget is DOA.
The IEA’s Capitol Report says that Governor Blago’s budget is Dead on Arrival. And they’re not unhappy to report it. He’s still holding to his no-tax pledge, and claiming new revenues can be generated by more gaming. He received a chilly welcome at last year’s IEA Representative Assembly. I can’t imagine it will be any warmer for him when we meet in two weeks. If he shows.
In Texas, drive for accountability drives students out.
Once again the data reports that the Texas Miracle, the model for NCLB, is a huge house of cards. The Texas education story over the past years has been a story of lies and corruption. And the story continues.
A new study by researchers at Rice University and the University of Texas-Austin, finds that the Texas public school accountability system contributes directly to low graduation rates. Each year Texas public high schools lose at least 135,000 youth prior to graduation. A disproportionate number of these are African American, Latino, and English Language Learners. This study has serious implications for the nation’s schools under the federal No Child Left Behind law, which was modeled on the Texas accountability system.
Tip of the hat to It’s Time for a Change.
I don’t have a clue about what these guys are talking about.
I love linking to the Carnival of Mathematics because I don’t have a clue as to what they are talking about.
I mean:
Elliptica points out that extending the chain rule to multivariate calculus gets tricky when there is a change of variables.
But maybe they don’t know anything about Gustave Corbet.
The thieves of Yale.
The treasures of the Inca are his legacy.
In 1912 Hiram Bingham, an agent of Yale University and the National Geographic Society, hired a local farmer to lead him to the “Lost City of the Incas.” We know this place now as Machu Picchu.
Bingham was written up in the newspapers at the time as an explorer. Today he is described as an Indiana Jones character. But in reality he was a looter and a grave robber. He lied and conned the Peruvians into letting him “borrow” the treasures of Machu Picchu and then never returned them. Some think he kept many pieces for himself and gave the rest to Yale University.
An op-ed piece in today’s NY Times by former Peruvian First Lady, Elaine Karp-Toledo, describes how Yale University continues the con today.
While curators at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art have been arrested for receiving stolen antiquities, Yale’s thieves walk free and get to negotiate the terms of their thievery.
But what of the students, faculty and alumni of Yale? Why no protest from them?
In 2006 Anne and I visited Peru and Machu Picchu. It is a glorious place, a wonder of the world. We met the young Quechua boy whose picture is at the top of this post. He lives in the Sacred Valley, not far from Machu Picchu. He walks an hour and a half down the mountain every day to get to school. At the end of the school day he walks an hour and half to get home. The treasures of the Inca are his legacy. Why does Yale get to keep them?
