December 2008
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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, and is posted for a limited period of time. See http://w2.eff.org/IP/eff_fair_use_faq.php for more details.] I’m 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. But isn’t it just a little bit interesting that when Obama was looking for a 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 research, and the media does not help me one bit. So how to judge? How 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 massive stimulus package, focused on infrastructure. What gets interesting is not that the government may 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. Desperate to make it over the finish line by typing anything (anything!) resembling novel prose, Continue reading
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