The G Bitch SpotThe G Bitch Spotat which a mad black woman rants about New Orleans, insomnia, teaching, various -isms and anything else involving a bitch, a spot or the letter g Articles
RT3: The Risen
2008-08-24 21:14:00 Best moments for me: Robert Cerasoli squeezing my hand and saying he likes my blog. (pic from Tin Can Trailer Trash) John Barry. Wow. Meeting Leigh Dingerson, talking, sharing, eating lunch together---and she likes my blog, too! I admire her dedication, clear-eyedness and thoughtfulness. She has a wealth of information and has ...
RTIII
2008-08-24 03:12:00 Maitri's liveblogging. So? Get your ass over there. *** John Barry: the levees that failed and flooded the 9th Ward, NO East, etc. were along canals, human-made outlets that benefit the entire nation. His op-eds---always submitted with the title Things You Don't Know about Katrina. "If the geological facts were known"---dams in ND make us ...
Who? Really? Oh.
2008-08-23 15:11:00 If you're reading, you probably already know Who I Really Am. Congratulations. Once it starts to slip, you can't shove it back in. If you don't know, trust me, the information will not be enlightening. You'd say, at most, Oh. I've never been much for self-exposure, visibility, or "presence." Bits of ...
Sad, Absurd, Disheartening
2008-08-22 15:10:00 Evaluating the School Facilities Master Plan---We Could Be Famous E evaluates more than the schools plan---he starts at Nagin's Bring New Orleans Back Commission, cuts through the Unified NO Plan to Concordia-Parsons, the "plan" and the starving of neighborhoods to shrink the city whether we like it or not to Pastorek's ... More About: Absurd
?no fundamental flaws?
2008-08-22 15:10:00 It infuriates me---imagine---each time I hear on the news or read in the news that Big Charity "was flooded by hurricane Katrina," a description that makes the 1938 Art Deco structure sound unsalvageable. When it really is. Only the lowest floor, the basement, flooded. Windows broke, too, on some floors. ... More About: Fundamental
Again We Rise
2008-08-22 15:10:00 Rising Tide III I will actually be there this year. Check the schedule and don't be late. More About: Rise
The Master?s Plan #2
2008-08-19 15:09:00 I've been busier than 4390 mofos and my head will still be spinning Friday night. Actually, it may be in orbit by Friday night. If you love me enough, I'll tell you all about it. One thing I have yet to peruse is the School Facilities Master Plan . E has. Go ... More About: The Master
Where IS a Bitch?
2008-08-16 15:07:00 All over the damn place. But I'll only be here once, maybe twice, a week for a few months. With too many plates spinning, I got a set of saucers. Oops. photo courtesy of itsjustanalias, used under this Creative Commons license More About: Bitch
Choke
2008-08-16 15:07:00 I went back to work yesterday. Whoa. Lots to be done. And I haven't even laid hand on all the textbooks yet. Or even thought for 5 minutes about teaching. Whoa squared. More About: Choke
Peeves/d
2008-08-14 15:06:00 1. "This is the end of John Edwards' political career." I didn't care that Sen. Vitter "frequented" prostitutes, or a couple he especially liked. That's his business. That's his marriage, cash. intimate lies, unmet needs, etc. and I really don't care about the sex lives of people I'm not sleeping with. ... More About: Peeves
Roots
2008-08-07 02:46:00 ...all groups suffered after Democratic Redeemers launched their determined attack on the reforms in public education that had occurred during Reconstruction. ... It was a humiliating and sad spectacle for an urban system once ranked among the nation's best. Problems began soon after a new twenty-member board took office on April ... More About: Roots
The Really Scary Mary Part
2008-08-06 02:45:00 You've more than likely heard plenty about the gun lobby mole Mary Lou McFate/Sapone but the scariest part of the story comes at the end of There's Something About Mary: Unmasking a Gun Lobby Mole: Sapone made her gun control work a family affair as well. Around 2003, Montgomery [Sapone, Mary ... More About: Scary , Part
The Heat of Hell Hounds
2008-08-03 02:43:00 Every year at this time, I say, repeatedly: If it's hot as a motherfucker, it must be Satchmofest I do not think Louis/Pops would want me or anybody else out in this kind of heat eating red beans To honor Armstrong in August is just this side---or the other---of insulting. Happy birthday last month, ... More About: Heat , Hell
What the Hell?.?
2008-08-01 02:42:00 You can find me over at The Rude Pundit today. Just don't hold that post against me. It was a really fucking slow news day for me. More About: Hell
Huh?
2008-08-01 02:42:00 The early rain does not have me fuzzy-headed. I really do not understand what Stacy Head got pissed about, what was said and why she's threatening Tambourine and Fan. [Treme Community Center director Jerome] Smith brought about 200 children to the City Council Thursday to protest the actions of two New ...
Don?t Be a Fuckmook: Fundraiser for Ashley Morris Memorial
2008-07-26 02:40:00 Remember Ashley Morris More About: Memorial , Fundraiser
Data Don?t Matter? Academic Research and School Choice?Final Excerpt
2008-07-26 02:40:00 Are there studies that clear the validity checks proposed here and still come to positive conclusions about choice? Yes. The work of Mark Schneider, Paul Teske, and various colleagues is a good example. They have a clear concept of choice and what it should do (that is, they have a ... More About: Academic , Research , Data , School , Final
The Bitch is Back, well, for awhile?..
2008-07-26 02:40:00 From the latest T-P articles on the voucher program and RSD schools, it seems that Jindal, Pastorek, and others (Vallas? I don't know) see the RSD as the school system of last resort and don't see that changing. I get this from the "assumption" that any school in the RSD ... More About: Back , Bitch
Not Barbara Kruger?the Battle at Kruger
2008-07-26 02:40:00 Somewhere in this is a life lesson---a fight of sorts between lionesses, crocodiles, and water buffalo, with the water buffalo winning. At Kruger National Park, South Africa. From Negative Space Media where you can buy pictures of the Battle at Kruger. More About: Barbara
Data Don?t Matter? Academic Research and School Choice?Excerpt Part Deux
2008-07-12 12:38:00 An initial assessment of any study?s potential contribution to policy should begin with three questions: What is being studied? Why is it expected to work? How is program performance assessed (286)? Why do some expect that providing an exit option will improve education generally? ? Does choice somehow affect teaching, learning, ... More About: Academic , Research , Data , School , Matter
D.C.?s Charter School Experiment
2008-06-29 00:35:00 D.C. charter schools were created by an act of Congress, the District of Columbia School Reform Act of 1995, and originally were seen as a compromise preventing private school vouchers. (After George W. Bush?s administration came to power, Congress, with the complicity of the mayor and elected school board president, ... More About: Experiment
?Charter Schools and the Values of Public Education??Excerpts
2008-06-21 07:29:00 The belief was that creative educators, freed from myriad rules and regulations, would try new things that, if successful, would influence the entire system (3). Charter schools also have a special obligation: to lead in demonstrating innovations in instruction, organization, curriculum, and design when it comes to improving our [public] schools. ... More About: Education , Schools , Public , Values
Data Don?t Matter? Academic Research and School Choice?Excerpt
2008-06-21 07:29:00 In a perfect world, policy makers more interested in fashioning effective programs than in scoring partisan points could turn to academics to help cut through the rhetorical brawling. The original vision for the policy sciences of democracy, after all, was for social scientists to use their expertise to match treasured ... More About: Academic , Research , Data , School , Matter
Pause
2008-06-17 06:33:00 Much shit happening. Nothing bad. Soon. photo courtesy of That Other Paper, used under this Creative Commons license More About: Pause
Eggers? Teachers Project
2008-06-08 00:00:00 Coming...sometime. This is serving as a trailer. The webpage is static. Then there's Eggers' Mother Jones article from 2004, which is good, but the teacher statements below will make your ass cry: I was doing it two to three times a week at night and on Saturdays, probably four to five hours, ... More About: Project , Teachers
Insert Smart-Ass Title Here
2008-06-07 00:00:00 The news today: House OKs income tax break. Oh? The House agreed unanimously Wednesday to a $300 million-a-year income tax break for middle- and upper-income earners after narrowly beating back attempts by Democrats to steer more of the benefits to the working poor. Lawmakers voted 102-0 for Senate Bill 87, which would ... More About: Smart , Title
Liveblogging the Campaign Coverage of the Damn Election
2008-06-04 00:00:00 Watching the pundits so you don't have to. Can I start with this: Chris Matthews just fucking sucks. Every time he opens his mouth, white men across the country should cringe and shrunk into the corner. Just the snappings of me tonight. Mister is off stalking McCain and since McCain will be ... More About: Campaign , Election , Damn , Coverage , Liveblogging
Support Safe Streets/Strong Communities THURSDAY
2008-06-04 00:00:00 FYI: Safe Streets will FINALLY see a city council vote on an Independent Monitor for New Orleans Police Department. New Orleans needs your support! WHAT: Come out to City Council. Wear Orange. Call City Council. Say YES to public safety and police accountability! WHEN: Thursday June 5th around NOON Where: City Council Chambers, ... More About: Support , Strong , Communities
?Casualties of Trauma?
2008-06-01 00:00:00 In some ways, all of us suffering from symptoms of trauma syndromes are casualties of trauma, in that trauma changes our lives and makes for certain vulnerabilities we would not otherwise have. For most of us, it affects where we can go and what we can expose ourselves to, changes ... More About: Trauma , Casualties
The Democratic Delegate Debate?Improptu Liveblogging
More articles from this author:2008-06-01 00:00:00 Mister said this debate was great TV for the Democrats, that it showed them being transparent, which the Republicans haven't and cannot be, and trying to be adult and fair and rational. And then Harold Ickes started to speak on Michigan's delegates. He used the phrase "you bet your ass" twice. ... More About: Democratic , Debate , Liveblogging 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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