StickWithANose

This week’s theme jumped out at me from my computer monitor, so I feel compelled to share it with you.
First up, this public school is brought to you by… NYT
Facing another potential round of huge budget cuts, the Los Angeles school board unanimously approved a plan on Tuesday night to allow the district [...]

Other People’s Children: Public Policy Blogger
I applaud and am thankful for those who share their great wealth to improve the lives of children. Beneficence of wealthy foundations, companies and individuals will always make a positive, lasting difference in our communities. This is not an attack on business, the private sector or [...]

Teaching is often a thankless job. At the end of a long day of lecturing and mentoring, one really has nothing to show for the days labor except a dry throat and stuff to grade. However, once in a blue moon, a student will say something that will remind you of why you chose this [...]

Still overwhelmed with grading so here’s a hodge-podge of what I read this morning over coffee…
The Next Economic Headwind: Commercial Real Estate [w/ extra chart porn!]
The facts are that hundreds of billions in commercial loans are coming due, with a peak not being reached until 2013. If banks were to properly account for [...]

Way too much grading today, so here’s what caught my eye…
Matthew Yglesias is a hack! Trust none of his false utterances…
Here’s a contrarian idea… Could a divided Congress run by Austerians actually help education policy by killing off federal dollars? Could the edu-philanthropists really keep the ball rolling without a friendly Department of Education and [...]

I’m moving this weekend so posting will be light until Monday or Tuesday. Here’s what caught my eye this morning…
Turning Schools Into Robot Factories: The Answer Sheet
As a teacher educator and educational researcher, I have been visiting classrooms for years, and, for the most part, I don’t like what I see. Many of [...]

The weather is too nice, I have too much on my plate, and I’m too annoyed with the world to offer anything substantive. Here’s a slice of Bananamerica…
Lot’s of buzz about the Fenty/Rhee loss but the future doesn’t look much brighter. There’s a whole crop of Broad Academy alumni waiting to fill Rhee’s shoes. Schools [...]

Chutzpah defined: Washington Post
“Let me not mince words, and say that yesterday’s election results were devastating – devastating. Not for me, because I’ll be fine. And not even for Fenty, because he’ll be fine, too. It was devastating for the children of Washington, D.C.”
The problem is that she said it to an [...]

With the first week of classes under my belt, I’m plugging back in to the intertubes and will [hopefully] resume my normal posting routine. Here’s what I’ve been reading….
Since it has become fashionable for the Faux News crowd to wail about the thuggery of our beleaguered unions, let us take a trip down memory lane [...]

De-constructing Libertarianism in one question… Naked Capitalism
How do libertarians propose to respond to the power of large enterprises?
Fiscal Austerity and Third World America… Baseline Scenario
The financial crisis may be behind us, but the link to the likely intense debate this fall regarding fiscal policy is direct — we are told that fiscal austerity [...]