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
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
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
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
The Democratic Delegate Debate?Improptu Liveblogging
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
?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
Closing the Jetson Center for Youth to??
2008-05-29 00:00:00 Am Funk has the gory details. It ain't pretty but is pure Bobby Jindal and his ilk who do not believe, it seems, in social services at all for anyone for any reason while they collect their taxpayer-provided salaries and benefits. More About: Youth , Center
Edweek.org: Chat on RSD June 3
2008-05-29 00:00:00 Edweek is sponsoring a chat with The Pauls---Paul Vallas and Paul Pastorek---next week, June 3, 2 pm Central time. You can submit questions here. Here's Edweek's details on the chat: NOTE: This is not an audio chat. No special equipment needed. We are currently accepting questions for this chat. Please submit questions. Chat ...
What Will Be Day 1029 and Counting
2008-05-26 00:00:00 I have "decided" to go back to the University. I made a big stink about never, ever, ever fucking going back to everyone I knew, met, saw, bumped into or got a contract offer from. But then I looked in the refrigerator, at the growing Girl, at the price of ... More About: Counting
WWJDOMD?
2008-05-26 00:00:00 What would Jesus do on Memorial Day, huh? What I did this morning--troll through a few searches for some work (I'm at work Memorial Day and so is The Girl Plessy). And what I found is another G Bitch Linky Farm! Sleepy brain prone to sudden shutdowns study Being deprived of sleep even ...
So That?s What It Was/Is/Has Been
2008-05-23 00:00:00 [Jeffrey] Kleinberg, a New York City psychologist-psychotherapist, coined the term worker's block, and defined it as "a rapid emotional, attitudinal and relational disengagement from the job, that may not be classifiable as an illness, yet is powerful enough to create a personal and, if widespread, a corporate crisis." Worker's block ...
Do You Have the Sunday T-P? And a Digital Camera?
2008-05-21 00:00:00 The Sunday T-P story "Charters break mold by picking, choosing" in the actual paper paper had an insert on admissions policies at local selective admissions charter schools but in listing Lusher's did not at all mention Tulane. Does anyone have the paper? Can you email me a picture of that ... More About: Digital Camera , Camera , Digital
Test Scores, Charters, Teachers and More Scores
2008-05-20 00:00:00 What did test scores prove about vouchers? In New Orleans schools that have been taken over by the state in recent years, scores among fourth-graders on this spring's Louisiana Educational Assessment Program test increased by 12 percentage points compared to last year. Scores for eighth-graders rose 4 percentage points. It was a ... More About: Test , Teachers
From the Sunday T-P
2008-05-20 00:00:00 Greg Richmond, president of the National Association of Charter School Authorizers, a group that has vetted charter school applications for Louisiana, said fewer than 1 percent of the 4,000 charter schools in the country have some kind of selective testing or auditions and that most of them have an arts ... More About: Sunday
Democracy at Work:3rd National Conference, June 19-22
2008-05-17 00:00:00 Democracy at Work :3rd National Conference of Worker Cooperatives and Democratic Workplaces New Orleans, LA June 19-22, 2008 The conference will be held on the campus of Loyola University in New Orleans, and is co-sponsored by the Twomey Center for Peace Through Justice at Loyola. We're preparing for three full, focused, fun ... More About: Democracy
?this basic civil right?
2008-05-17 00:00:00 "California Supreme Court Overturns Gay Marriage Ban" http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/16/us/16ma rriage.html?pagewanted=2&ref=politics ?In view of the substance and significance of the fundamental constitutional right to form a family relationship,? Chief Justice George wrote, ?the California Constitution properly must be interpreted to guarantee this basic civil right to all Californians, whether gay or heterosexual, and to same-sex ... More About: Basic , Civil
The Bill-O Remix
2008-05-17 00:00:00 to dance to: to snicker to: the million-times-linked-to original: More About: Remix , Bill O , Bill
More New Teachers = More New Teachers
2008-05-16 00:00:00 "Teach for America to double numbers" The national nonprofit Teach For America plans to announce today that it will more than double the number of new teachers placed in the greater New Orleans area -- a growth that surpasses the organization's 28 other regions. Teach For America has tapped 250 recent college ... More About: Teachers
Say What!?!?!
2008-05-13 00:00:00 HT: Suspect Device, item #2. If HB 199 passes, one-on-one conferences will mean a whole new thing: Legalizing permitted handguns on college campuses took its first major step toward approval Thursday after three hours of debate in a legislative committee. ... House Bill 199 by Rep. Ernest Wooten, R-Belle Chasse, was approved in an ...
Okay, Mother?s Day Me
2008-05-13 00:00:00 ...the first Mother 's Day was dreamed up by a woman named Anna Jarvis, in 1907, the idea didn't really catch fire until 1914, when President Woodrow Wilson infuriated women's rights activists by proclaiming the second Sunday in May an official holiday. "Many of the era's suffragists . . . were ...
Comments are BACK!
2008-05-10 00:00:00 Yep, even I can comment. Major changes ahead, though, as the final Viagra bugs are worked out and my theme library rebuilt. It's like having a blog again! More About: Comments , Back
Calling a Cracker Vote a Cracker Vote
2008-05-08 00:00:00 Before I get started, let me say that some of my closest friends are white people. I called Indiana for HRC based on what I called and call The Cracker Vote , that percentage of white people who consciously or unconsciously, strongly or mildly, overtly or covertly cannot vote for A Black ... More About: Calling
Showing the Charter School Love
2008-05-08 00:00:00 graciously cross-posted at Humid City, my evacuation chalet My daughter goes to a charter school. I got an email the other day about tomorrow's rally in Baton Rouge in celebration of Charter School s Week (I've never heard of this one and wonder why it is the same damn week as Teacher ... More About: Love
Last Sunday 2008
2008-05-08 00:00:00 graciously cross-posted at Humid City when the Spot was spotty The Lump (our 11-1/2-year-old spawn) reads during Jazz Fest. I have found this humiliating and/or embarrassing over the years, and make pains to point out her bobbing or tapping foot. This year, though, people were quite charmed. One man talked to ... More About: Sunday , 2008
Local Thursdays
2008-05-08 00:00:00 graciously cross-posted at Humid City when the Spot was spotty First off, no, I do not understand the finer points of funding and producing Jazz Fest. But I do know that $50 tickets price out a fair amount of locals and takes an iconic season away from many of us who ... More About: Local
Thursday Festing
More articles from this author:2008-05-08 00:00:00 I think of this as a guest post at Humid City though the Spot was down.... I got a long Jazz Fest tradition, one of those who went as a child and carts her spawn there each year. Every year of my daughter's life, we've gone to Jazz Fest. She never ... More About: Thursday 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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