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Charlie Rose talks with Teach for America Founder Wendy Kopp
Charlie Rose featured an interview with Wendy Kopp, the Founder of Teach for America (official website) last week. For anyone interested in education the conversation is a fascinating one, following the recent publication of her book One Day, All Children…: The Unlikely Triumph Of Teach For America And What I Learned Along The Way.
I’m […]
Kung Fu Dancing with Cats
Photoshopped, unless my spidey-sense deceives me, but brilliantly so. via ffffound!
Houston Ready for its Close Up, Bucks National Economic Trend
Daniel Gross has nominated Houston as the poster child for bucking the recent downturn in the economy in Newsweek’s Houston, We Have No Problems: Houston has become a sort of Silicon Valley for the global energy industry. Urban cowboy? Think suburban geek.
To find a hot spot where soaring oil and commodity prices, and the booming […]
Homosexual eases into 100 final at Olympic trials
Ed Brayton via Tom Kirkendall notes that American Family Association has a policy at its new outlet, OneNewsNow, never to use the word “gay” but to replace it with “homosexual” - which is all well and good until someone named Tyson Gay turns in a record time in the US Olympic qualifying rounds. The result […]
Study Finds Most Children Not In Favor Of Children’s Healthcare
Video from the Onion News Network. Classic.
Big Bad John, Cornyn That Is
Jumpin jehosaphats, Cornyn, don’t you have focus groups to kill things like this?
Cardboarding, like Snowboarding, but without Snow or Excitement
This Houstonist post brought back fond memories. Since my elementary school had a giant hill behind the playground cardboarding was a frequent pastime in the spring and fall, as was sledding in the winter. How we didn’t break our little faces I’ll never know.
I’m a sucker for a girl with a loop machine…
Theresa Andersson - ‘Na Na Na’
Just the footwork alone is impressive… you know, in addition to everything else.
High Marks for Teach for America
From the Wall Street Journal’s Amazing Teacher Facts -
Eleven per cent of Yale’s senior class, 9% of Harvard’s and 10% of Georgetown’s applied for a job whose salary ranges from $25,000 (in rural South Dakota) to $44,000 (in New York City).
Hang on a second.
Unions keep saying the best people won’t go into teaching unless […]
Table of Contents
Why do I love Design Observer? Because not only will they write a scholarly article about it, they will have a full-on conference about Tables of Contents.