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7/31/08

Gone Camping

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Yes, the boy and I are off for our annual camping trip. I doubt if there will be many posts between August 1 and August 10. Don't worr...
7/30/08

NCLB Smackdown! Ouch!

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I don't know how I got there, but I ended up at cleveland.com reading some reactions to a pseudo-letter published in the Clevelnad Plai...
7/29/08

Jay P. Greene: Moron

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I was visiting this lover of NCLB 's site. He has a book. It got slammed on the Amazon comments (full disclosure, it was half and half...
7/28/08

Shakesville: Most Hypocritical Site Ever? Updated!

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(This is a re post of the other one. The comments are gone, though it was only 2 of us. I will try to recover them. Shouldn't blog wi...

"We Must Guard Against the Acquisition of Unwarranted Influence...

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...whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex." That first part of Ike's farewell we have not remembered. Unwa...

Reich: A Little Perspective

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Does it seem like all you do is work, work, work? Well, You do ! The Myth of Summer Vacation I'm about to take a few weeks off. If you ...
7/27/08

Give me your hungry, your tired, your poor, I'll piss on 'em

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Eighteen months of detention. This video of the daughter of the incarcerated is important to watch. This young woman, well, I hope she get...
7/25/08

Robocalls

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I just received a robocall from Hollywood Video. They were trying to get me to sign up for something. Of course, when I hung up on them, a...

Punishment for Torture

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Ever wonder how the punishment prescribed by Congress for torture compares with the punishment it prescribes for other offenses? Under feder...

Robert Reich: Make Obama Hire You!

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As usual, Bob says it like it is. Now, I don't know Bob very well, but I do know he is one of the nicest guys in the world. He cares ...
7/24/08

Barack Okennereagama

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Here is Obama's speech from Berlin. Pretty impressive!
7/23/08

Stephen Colbert Pussed Out On Spellings (updated)

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Margaret Spellings, the Secretary of Education, and NCLB proponent went on The Colbert Report last night. Stephen, to his credit, asked abo...
7/21/08

Your Federal Tax Dollars Hard at Work

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This sad, sad -- and true -- story will make you glad that Homeland Security is looking out for us all....NOT. Once upon a time there was a ...
7/20/08

Educational Research: Mostly Crap

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Here is a little nugget from a 2007 journal article (or pdf) regarding the re-authorization of NCLB. In it they question the SBR (scienti...

So Long, Suppression

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Another remnant of the Fourth Amendment is on its way out... So, the NYTimes yesterday not only predicted but pretty much called for an end ...