Greg Sisk at Mirror of Justice– reflecting on Peggy Noonan’s charge that our thought leaders (including university elites) are detached from the essential nature of regular citizens– asks whether the charge applies just as well to profs at Catholic institutions. Hmmmmm….yes.
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Americans of all ages, all stations of life, and all types of disposition are forever forming associations…In democratic countries knowledge of how to combine is the mother of all other forms of knowledge; on its progress depends that of all the others.
So says the governor of Wyoming. Governor Dave Freudenthal is threatening to sell off a chunk of [the Grand Teton national park]… unless the Obama administration comes up with more money to pay for education in the financially beleaguered state.
Writing at his NYTimes Your Money column, Rob Lieber implicitly ties together Peggy Noonan’s and Angelo M. Codevilla’s recent writings about the educated elite and the rest of us with problems with teachers pension funds and ends up predicting class warfare over how to make up the trillion dollar shortfall in funding pensions to state [...]
The Naked Capitalist says: I am in no position to say definitively, but Morgenson may have been spun in her report yesterday on a Denver public school financing that turned out worse than initially planned due to financial upheaval. Superficially (and the story presents quite a few general comments and analogies that encourage readers to [...]
Shortly before noon on Tuesday, January 28, 1986, Space Shuttle Challenger took off from Cape Canavarel, Florida, to put a new tracking and data relay satellite into orbit. Seventy-three seconds into the flight, the spacecraft disintegrated over the Atlantic Ocean. All seven astronauts aboard were killed. Among those astronauts was the first member of the [...]
Beth Aviv— teacher for 30 years and author of Bearing Witness: Teaching about the Holocaust– writes at Salon about losing her high school English teaching job. She sees the school’s logic for hiring the younger, stunning, lower-on-the-pay-scale, and –yes, good– teacher competing for the same spot. But it still hurts.
As you probably know, Google has set out to scan all the books published in modern history (not counting copies of course). They used an algorithm to determine just how many books that might be. Here’s how they arrived at the number.
President Obama’s favorite candidate for senator from Colorado – Michael Bennet – is facing big trouble from the days when he was superintendent of Denver Public Schools. Pointing to a king-sized mess surrounding the teachers pension fund there, the New York Times today dropped a front-page bombshell that seems to imply he was either financially [...]