Monthly Archives: December 2008

Pysch-Pop Notes: Turquoise and the Tales of Flossie Fillett

Listen: turquoise-tales-of-flossie-fillet [Please note, I am asserting my fair use right to this material, as it is provided here as a necessary sample to supplement the educational and editorial purposes of this post, is posted at a severely degraded 64kb/s, … Continue reading

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Arne Duncan’s Magic Lawyer Powers Will Save U.S. Education

Well, it’s happened. Arne Duncan is going to be the next Secretary of Education. The theory of magic lawyer powers has prevailed. Don’t get me wrong. I think one can have a completely irrelevant degree, and do a fine job. … Continue reading

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No Lawyers for Secretary of Education. No-way, No-how.

I find tracking the Secretary of Education appointment news maddeningly difficult. And that’s distressing to me, because some of the names I’ve heard floated would be absolutely disastrous. And others I’ve never heard of heard of, have no time to … Continue reading

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Is OCW a “shovel-ready infrastructure project”?

More on this later, but I wanted to throw this out to see if anyone had any thoughts on it. You’ve probably heard that to stave off the next Great Depression, the government will intervene in the form of a … Continue reading

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Narrating Comics

Probably the best job I ever had was teaching writing — and I still keep an eye out for interesting methods of rethinking the teaching of composition. In the waning hours of NaNoWriMo last night I found a decent one. … Continue reading

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