Solve real business challenges on Google Cloud and run workloads for free. For Slashdot users: Get $300 in free credits to fully explore Google Cloud. Get started for free today.
I'll never empty my list of freaks. First of all because Pudge is on there, and for him to un-freak me would require him to change his mind.
But of far more interest than that is my former brother-in-law. I hadn't forgotten that he showed up here when his crazy assed sister left me. Hadn't thought about him in a while. Was looking around some pages and saw his name on my freaks list. Then I remembered he was 'an hero'. And I laughed. I hope it hurt. It probably did, because for it to have been painless it would require him to do something right for once in his miserable life.
Everybody still having fun with APK? I notice that damned near every post I made last week has been responded to, questioning my educational bona fides. The hysterical thing is that some AC responded to his inquiries. Now, to about half of those, he responded, accusing me of being the AC. The really hysterical thing: I haven't visited/. since very early on Wednesday morning.
So APK spent a day or two running around and accusing people of sockpuppetry who had forgotten his existence hours before APK posted. Classic. How long until he goes all Hans Reiser?
A now-former writer for scholastic, Marc Millot, wrote an article accusing wide-ranging corruption in Obama administration awards of Race to the Top grants, implicating Andrew Rotham of EdSector. Rotham complained that the report was hearsay, which is not true but Scholastic pulled the report and fired Marc Millot anyway. As an advocate for clean government, I've got my fingers crossed hoping for a Streisand effect. Also, some of those need mirrors, ANDREW ROTHAM is trying to take down his own blog entry.
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<style type="text/css" media="screen">/* To accomodate differing install paths of WordPress, images are referred only here, and not in the style.css file. If you prefer to use only CSS for colors then delete the following lines, and the image files. */
#page { background: url("http://www.eduwonk.com/wp-content/themes/nouveau-clean-12/images/background-wide.jpg") repeat-y top; border: none; }
#header { background: url("http://www.eduwonk.com/wp-content/themes/nouveau-clean-12/images/header.jpg") no-repeat bottom center; }
#footer { background: url("http://www.eduwonk.com/wp-content/themes/nouveau-clean-12/images/footer.jpg") no-repeat bottom; border: none;}/* If you don't want to use the template's images, you can also delete the following two lines. */
#header { height: 140px; width: 760px; }
#header-image { height: 140px; width: 760px; }/* To ease the insertion of a personal header image, just simply drop in an image called 'header.jpg' into your/images/ directory. Dimensions should be at least 760px x 200px. Anything above that will be cropped off. */
<div class="alignright"><a href="http://www.eduwonk.com/2010/02/take-the-points.html">Giving Too Many Points</a> »</div>
</div>
<div class="post" id="post-5434">
<h2><a href="http://www.eduwonk.com/2010/02/hogwarts-on-the-hudson.html" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link: Hogwarts On The Hudson?">Hogwarts On The Hudson?</a></h2>
<div class="entrytext">
<p>Wow. Jaw meet floor. <a href="http://www2.scholastic.com/browse/home.jsp">Scholastic</a>, a serious publisher in the education space (that produces some good products, for instance Read 180) <a href="http://scholasticadministrator.typepad.com/thisweekineducation/2010/02/millot-three-data-points-unconected-dots-or-a-warning.html">is now allowing its bloggers to call out senior government officials as corrupt on the basis of <em>anonymous third party hearsay and no evidence</em>.</a> We’ve crossed into a strange new - and unfortunate - world if this is the new norm or somehow even remotely acceptable.</p>
<p><strong>Update:</strong> As you can tell from the now broken link it’s to Scholastic’s credit that they’ve removed the post.</p>
<p class="postmetadata alt">
<small>
This entry was posted
on Friday, February 5th, 2010 at 4:00 pm.
You can follow any responses to this entry through the <a href='http://www.eduwonk.com/2010/02/hogwarts-on-the-hudson.html/feed'>RSS 2.0</a> feed.
You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.
</small>
</p>
</div>
</div>
<!-- You can start editing here. -->
<h3 id="comments">13 Responses to “Hogwarts On The Hudson?”</h3>
<small class="commentmetadata"><a href="#comment-151201" title="">February 5th, 2010 at 4:38 pm</a> </small>
<p>seems like a reasonable blog post to me – he’s just asking for a bit more transparency to clear up any perception of favoritism. </p> <p>as he said, it’s not like it hasn’t happened before <img src='http://www.eduwonk.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif' alt=';)' class='wp-smiley'/> </p>
<small class="commentmetadata"><a href="#comment-151218" title="">February 5th, 2010 at 5:00 pm</a> </small>
<p>Steve F.-</p> <p>The first sentence is:</p> <p>“I have now heard the same thing from three independent credible sources – the fix is in on the U.S. Department of Education’s competitive grants, in particular Race to the Top (RTTT) and Investing in Innovation (I3). ”</p> <p>Not implying anything but just asking?</p>
</li>
<li class="alt" id="comment-151225">
<cite>steve f.</cite> Says:
<br/>
<small class="commentmetadata"><a href="#comment-151225" title="">February 5th, 2010 at 5:04 pm</a> </small>
<p>it’s a blog, i’m not sure of the ethics of blog publishing.</p> <p>but the post is asking whether there is favoritism at the dept of ed? that’s reasonable in my book and could be cleared up easily through a transparent process.</p>
<p>the ny times uses anonymous sources all the time.</p>
<small class="commentmetadata"><a href="#comment-151233" title="">February 5th, 2010 at 5:15 pm</a> </small>
<p>“Over the last several months a national education reporter, a senior manager at a national education research organization, and the head of a national nonprofit working in the field all volunteered that the Department’s senior officials know exactly who they want to get RTTT and I3 money – in brief, the new philanthropies’ grantees and the jurisdictions where they work. ”</p> <p>That is a reasonable question but the blog post is not asking whether there is favortism, it is *saying* there is favortism. The first line is “the fix is in” not “is the fix in?”</p>
<small class="commentmetadata"><a href="#comment-151236" title="">February 5th, 2010 at 5:24 pm</a> </small>
<p>Pleeeez! Favoritism at the Dept of Ed? Who’s the secretary? While he may be a nice man and a class warrior, his position derives from the favoritism we now find problematic.</p>
<small class="commentmetadata"><a href="#comment-151303" title="">February 5th, 2010 at 8:56 pm</a> </small>
<p>I feel certain that the taxpayers are about to be fleeced in the name of educational “reform.” Let’s hope someone with the right skills can find out what’s coming down the pike before it’s too late.</p> <p>The Reading First fiasco hurt a lot of children and lined a lot of pockets before the fraud was exposed. I don’t want to see this happen again.</p>
</li>
<li class="alt" id="comment-151305">
<cite>Edharris</cite> Says:
<br/>
<small class="commentmetadata"><a href="#comment-151305" title="">February 5th, 2010 at 9:02 pm</a> </small>
<p>Some of the article is here:<br/> <a href="http://www.schoolsmatter.info/2010/02/millot-asks-about-conflict-of-interest.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.schoolsmatter.info/2010/02/millot-asks-about-conflict-of-interest.html</a></p>
<small class="commentmetadata"><a href="#comment-151798" title="">February 7th, 2010 at 6:41 am</a> </small>
<p>Clearly, we must applaud Scholastic’s journalistic integrity for not allowing its bloggers to call out senior public officials. Especially when, as you point out it sells “a lot of good products” and the senior official in question is capable of serious payback if the serious publisher were to allow such a breach in respect for senior government officials.</p> <p>That’s what journalistic standards are for: to protect our vulnerable senior government officials from unwarrented intrusion into their power to dispense payouts.</p>
</li>
<li class="" id="comment-151866">
<cite>Edharris</cite> Says:
<br/>
<small class="commentmetadata"><a href="#comment-151866" title="">February 7th, 2010 at 1:02 pm</a> </small>
<p>Two classic moments from film and TV come to mind.<br/> “I’m shocked, shocked, to find gambling going on in this establishment.”<br/>
<small class="commentmetadata"><a href="#comment-153652" title="">February 12th, 2010 at 12:48 pm</a> </small>
<p>The saga is being followed by me as well as others. Several bloggers, including me, have given Millot space to respond. Check my blog for updates if you are interested.</p>
<small class="commentmetadata"><a href="#comment-154163" title="">February 13th, 2010 at 7:54 pm</a> </small>
<p>Mr. Millot:</p>
<p>You sound like a very wise man. You were one of the first writers to predict that Michelle Rhee couldn’t possibly succeed given her disdain for teachers.</p> <p>I hope you can continue to expose “reformers” who are poised to line their pockets with tax money meant for schoolchildren. Your skills as a lawyer should prove very helpful. Our country cannot afford another Reading First scam. Thank you.</p>
<option value='http://www.eduwonk.com/2009/12'> December 2009 </option>
<option value='http://www.eduwonk.com/2009/11'> November 2009 </option>
<option value='http://www.eduwonk.com/2009/10'> October 2009 </option>
<option value='http://www.eduwonk.com/2009/09'> September 2009 </option>
<option value='http://www.eduwonk.com/2009/08'> August 2009 </option>
<option value='http://www.eduwonk.com/2009/07'> July 2009 </option>
<option value='http://www.eduwonk.com/2009/06'> June 2009 </option>
<option value='http://www.eduwonk.com/2009/05'> May 2009 </option>
<option value='http://www.eduwonk.com/2009/04'> April 2009 </option>
<option value='http://www.eduwonk.com/2009/03'> March 2009 </option>
<option value='http://www.eduwonk.com/2009/02'> February 2009 </option>
<option value='http://www.eduwonk.com/2009/01'> January 2009 </option>
<option value='http://www.eduwonk.com/2008/12'> December 2008 </option>
<option value='http://www.eduwonk.com/2008/11'> November 2008 </option>
<option value='http://www.eduwonk.com/2008/10'> October 2008 </option>
<option value='http://www.eduwonk.com/2008/09'> September 2008 </option>
<option value='http://www.eduwonk.com/2008/08'> August 2008 </option>
<option value='http://www.eduwonk.com/2008/07'> July 2008 </option>
<option value='http://www.eduwonk.com/2008/06'> June 2008 </option>
<option value='http://www.eduwonk.com/2008/05'> May 2008 </option>
<option value='http://www.eduwonk.com/2008/04'> April 2008 </option>
<option value='http://www.eduwonk.com/2008/03'> March 2008 </option>
<option value='http://www.eduwonk.com/2008/02'> February 2008 </option>
<option value='http://www.eduwonk.com/2008/01'> January 2008 </option>
<option value='http://www.eduwonk.com/2007/12'> December 2007 </option>
<option value='http://www.eduwonk.com/2007/11'> November 2007 </option>
<option value='http://www.eduwonk.com/2007/10'> October 2007 </option>
<option value='http://www.eduwonk.com/2007/09'> September 2007 </option>
<option value='http://www.eduwonk.com/2007/08'> August 2007 </option>
<option value='http://www.eduwonk.com/2007/07'> July 2007 </option>
<option value='http://www.eduwonk.com/2007/06'> June 2007 </option>
<option value='http://www.eduwonk.com/2007/05'> May 2007 </option>
<option value='http://www.eduwonk.com/2007/04'> April 2007 </option>
<option value='http://www.eduwonk.com/2007/03'> March 2007 </option>
<option value='http://www.eduwonk.com/2007/02'> February 2007 </option>
<option value='http://www.eduwonk.com/2007/01'> January 2007 </option>
<option value='http://www.eduwonk.com/2006/12'> December 2006 </option>
<option value='http://www.eduwonk.com/2006/11'> November 2006 </option>
<option value='http://www.eduwonk.com/2006/10'> October 2006 </option>
<option value='http://www.eduwonk.com/2006/09'> September 2006 </option>
<option value='http://www.eduwonk.com/2006/08'> August 2006 </option>
<option value='http://www.eduwonk.com/2006/07'> July 2006 </option>
<option value='http://www.eduwonk.com/2006/06'> June 2006 </option>
<option value='http://www.eduwonk.com/2006/05'> May 2006 </option>
<option value='http://www.eduwonk.com/2006/04'> April 2006 </option>
<option value='http://www.eduwonk.com/2006/03'> March 2006 </option>
<option value='http://www.eduwonk.com/2006/02'> February 2006 </option>
<option value='http://www.eduwonk.com/2006/01'> January 2006 </option>
<option value='http://www.eduwonk.com/2005/12'> December 2005 </option>
<option value='http://www.eduwonk.com/2005/11'> November 2005 </option>
<option value='http://www.eduwonk.com/2005/10'> October 2005 </option>
<option value='http://www.eduwonk.com/2005/09'> September 2005 </option>
<option value='http://www.eduwonk.com/2005/08'> August 2005 </option>
<option value='http://www.eduwonk.com/2005/07'> July 2005 </option>
<option value='http://www.eduwonk.com/2005/06'> June 2005 </option>
<option value='http://www.eduwonk.com/2005/05'> May 2005 </option>
<option value='http://www.eduwonk.com/2005/04'> April 2005 </option>
<option value='http://www.eduwonk.com/2005/03'> March 2005 </option>
<option value='http://www.eduwonk.com/2005/02'> February 2005 </option>
<option value='http://www.eduwonk.com/2005/01'> January 2005 </option>
<option value='http://www.eduwonk.com/2004/12'> December 2004 </option>
<option value='http://www.eduwonk.com/2004/11'> November 2004 </option>
<option value='http://www.eduwonk.com/2004/10'> October 2004 </option>
<option value='http://www.eduwonk.com/2004/09'> September 2004 </option>
<option value='http://www.eduwonk.com/2004/08'> August 2004 </option>
<option value='http://www.eduwonk.com/2004/07'> July 2004 </option>
<option value='http://www.eduwonk.com/2004/06'> June 2004 </option>
<option value='http://www.eduwonk.com/2004/05'> May 2004 </option>
<option value='http://www.eduwonk.com/2004/04'> April 2004 </option>
</select>
</li> <li id="text-127689353" class="widget widget_text"><h2 class="widgettitle">Reviews of Eduwonk.com</h2>
<div class="textwidget"><P> 2007 Winner, Editor's Choice Best Education Blog <br>-- <em>Performancing.com</em> <P> 2006 Winner, Best K-12 Administration Blog -- "Best of the Education Blog Awards" <br>-- <em>eSchool News and Discovery Education</em> <P> 2006 Finalist, Best Education Blog <br>-- <em>Weblog Awards</em>
<P> <i>Least</i> influential of education's <i>most</i> influential information sources. <br>-- <em>Education
Week Research Center</em> <P> "unexpectedly entertaining"..."tackle[s] a potentially mindfogging subject with cutting clarity...
they're reading those mushy, brain-numbing education stories so you don't have to!" <br>-- <em>Slate's Mickey Kaus</em> <P> "a very smart blog... [if] you're trying to separate the demagogic attacks on NCLB from the serious
criticism, this is the site to read"
<br> -- <em>The New Republic's Ryan Lizza</em> <P> "everyone who's anyone reads Eduwonk" <br> -- <em>Hechinger Institute on Education and the Media's Richard Colvin</em> <P> "full of very lively short items and is always on top of the news...He gets extra points for skewering my
high school rating system" <br> -- <em>Jay Mathews, The Washington Post</em> <P>
"a daily dose of information from the education policy world, blended with a shot of attitude and a dash
of humor" <br> -- <em>Education Week</em> <P> "designed to cut through the fog and direct specialists and non-specialists alike to the center of the
liveliest and most politically relevant debates on the future of our schools" <br> -- <em>The New Dem Daily</em> <P> "peppered with smart and witty comments on the education news of the day" <br> -- <em>Education Gadfly</em>
<P> "don't hate Eduwonk cuz it's so good" <br> -- <em>Alexander Russo, This Week In Education</em> <p> "the morning's first stop for education bomb-throwers everywhere" <br> -- <em>Mike Antonucci, Intercepts</em> <p> "...the big dog on the ed policy blog-ck..." <br> -- <em>Michele McLaughlin, AFT Blog</em>
<P> "I check Eduwonk several times a day, especially since I cut back on caffeine" <br> -- <em>Joe Williams, fallen journalist, Executive Director, Democrats for Education Reform</em> <P> "...one of the few bloggers who isn't completely nuts" <br> -- <em>Mike Petrilli, Thomas B. Fordham Foundation</em> <P> "I have just three 'go to' websites: The Texas Legislature, Texas Longhorn sports, and Eduwonk" <br> -- <em>Sandy Kress, former education advisor to President Bush and former chairman, Dallas Board of
Education</em>
<P> "penetrating analysis in a lively style on a wide range of issues" <br> -- <em>Walt Gardner, champion letter-to-the-editor writer and retired teacher</em> <P> "thugs" <br> -- <em>Susan Ohanian</em></div>
</li>
<li id="recent-comments-3" class="widget widget_recent_comments"> <h2 class="widgettitle">Recent Reader Comments</h2>
<ul id="recentcomments"><li class="recentcomments"><a href='http://www.billigtflygtilllondon.com' rel='external nofollow' class='url'>Jason Jagow</a> on <a href="http://www.eduwonk.com/2009/12/eliza-krigman-ringmaster.html/comment-page-1#comment-154202">Eliza Krigman: Ringmaster</a></li><li class="recentcomments">ateacher on <a href="http://www.eduwonk.com/2010/01/five-strikes-and-youre-out-plus-houston-we-have-a-problem.html/comment-page-1#comment-154181">Five Strikes And You’re Out! Plus, Houston We Have A Problem…</a></li><li class="recentcomments">ateacher on <a href="http://www.eduwonk.com/2010/01/five-strikes-and-youre-out-plus-houston-we-have-a-problem.html/comment-page-1#comment-154178">Five Strikes And You’re Out! Plus, Houston We Have A Problem…</a></li><li class="recentcomments"><a href='http://ljohnson562@charter.net' rel='external nofollow' class='url'>Linda/Retired Teacher</a> on <a href="http://www.eduwonk.com/2010/02/hogwarts-on-the-hudson.html/comment-page-1#comment-154163">Hogwarts On The Hudson?</a></li><li class="recentcomments"><a href='http://www.churchcoaching.org/' rel='external nofollow' class='url'>Coach for Awakened</a> on <a href="http://www.eduwonk.com/2009/08/reinventing-ed-school-2-coaching-dosagestyle.html/comment-page-1#comment-154107">Reinventing Ed School 2: Coaching dosage/style</a></li></ul>
border="1"><br>Collective Bargaining in Education: Negotiating Change in Today's Schools</a><br> <font color="#000000" size="-2">Edited by Jane Hannaway and Andrew J. Rotherham</font> <P>
border="1"><br>Why Newsweek's List of America's 100 Best High Schools Doesn't Make the Grade </a><br> <font color="#000000" size="-2">By Andrew J. Rotherham<br> and Sara Mead</font> </td>
border="1"><br>A Qualified Teacher<br> in Every Classroom</a><br> <font color="#000000" size="-2">Edited by Frederick M. Hess, Andrew J. Rotherham, and Kate Walsh</font> </td>
border="0"><br>Rethinking Special Education For A New Century</a><br> <font color="#000000" size="-2">Edited by Chester E. Finn, Jr., Andrew J. Rotherham & Charles R. Hokanson, Jr.</font></td>
src="http://www.eduwonk.com/graphics/EXPCutScoresCover.gif" width="120" height="147" border="0"><br>Making The Cut: How States Set Passing Scores on Standardized Tests</a><br> <font color="#000000" size="-2">By Andrew J. Rotherham</font></td></tr> <tr>
src="http://www.eduwonk.com/graphics/MeadRotherhamCover.gif" width="120" height="147" border="0"><br>Changing the Game: The Federal Role in Supporting 21st Century Educational Innovation </a><br> <font color="#000000" size="-2">By Andrew J. Rotherham and Sara Mead</font></td>
href=" http://www.philanthropyroundtable.org/store_product.asp?prodid=210"><img src="http://www.eduwonk.com/graphics/TeacherExcellenceCover.gif" width="120" height="180" border="0"><br>Achieving Teacher and Principal Excellence: A Guidebook for Donors </a><br> <font color="#000000" size="-2">By Andrew J. Rotherham</font> </td> </tr> </table> <P> <ul><li id="linkcat-5" class="linkcat"><h2>Education Blogs</h2>
<ul class='xoxo blogroll'> <li><a href="http://americanedreview.blogspot.com/2010/01/teaching-as-leadership-live.html">American Ed Review</a></li> <li><a href="http://ascd.typepad.com/blog/" target="_blank">ASCD</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.assortedstuff.com/" target="_blank">Assorted Stuff</a></li> <li><a href="http://teachingquality.typepad.com/building_the_profession/" title="Secondhand NEA smoke?" target="_blank">Barnett Berry</a></li> <li><a href="http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/Bridging-Differences/" title="And lemme tell you another thing about those punk reform kids today…" target="_blank">Bridging Differences (Meier and Ravitch)</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.publiccharters.org/media/blog" title="But do they like charter schools?" target="_blank">Charter Blog (NAPCS)</a></li> <li><a href="http://charterschoolpolicy.org/yes/" target="_blank">Charter School Policy Inst. Blog</a></li> <li><a href="http://dormont.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Chez Dormont</a></li>
<li><a href="http://thecite.blogspot.com/" title="A blog on Course materials, Innovation, and Technology in Education">CITE Blog</a></li> <li><a href="http://athenslearning.org/blog/" target="_blank">College Ready Blog (Athens Learning Group)</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.burkescarbrough.com/" target="_blank">Conversation Starters</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.coreknowledge.org/blog/" title="Bring on the classics! Panic At The Pondiscio holds forth!" target="_blank">Core Knowledge Blog</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.erinoconnor.org/" target="_blank">Critical Mass</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.curriki.org/xwiki/bin/view/CurrikiBlog/">Curriki</a></li> <li><a href="http://d-edreckoning.blogspot.com/" title="You’d better bring evidence " target="_blank">D-EDreckoning</a></li> <li><a href="http://dcteacherchic.blogspot.com/">D.C. Teacher Chic</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.dangerouslyirrelevant.org/" target="_blank">Dangerously Irrelevant</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.cobranchi.com/" title="Homie Central" target="_blank">Daryl Cobranchi</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.abcte.org/blog/" target="_blank">Dave Saba (ABCTE)</a></li> <li><a href="http://daveshearon.typepad.com/" target="_blank">Dave Shearon</a></li> <li><a href="http://dcedublog.blogspot.com/" title="Education dysfunction central" target="_blank">DC Education Blog</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.dfer.org/posts/blog/" title="Should be as redundant as ‘Republicans for lower taxes’, but isn’t yet" target="_blank">Dems for Education Reform</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.newamerica.net/blog/early_ed_watch" title="Sara Mead tells you what it all means for little kids" target="_blank">Early Ed Watch</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.earlyedcoverage.org/" title="Colvin saves education journalism" target="_blank">Early Stories</a></li> <li><a href="http://learningmatters.tv/blog/news-desk/" title="Daily education news summaries and links" target="_blank">Ed Beat</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.ediswatching.org/" title="He’s five and he likes school choice" target="_blank">Ed is Watching</a></li>
<li><a href="http://ed-policy.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Ed Policy Blog</a></li> <li><a href="http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/edbizbuzz/" target="_blank">Edbizbuzz</a></li> <li><a href="http://blog.centerforpubliceducation.org/?paged=2" title="The Center for Public Education Blog">EDifier</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.varpartners.net/%3fpage_id=101" target="_blank">EdReformer Blog</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.edspresso.com/" title="Vouchers yes! Dems no!" target="_blank">Edspresso</a></li> <li><a href="http://educatedguess.org/blog/" title="The Educated Guess is a forum on education policies in California and Silicon Valley.">Educated Guess</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.educatednation.com/" target="_blank">Educated Nation</a></li> <li><a href="http://educationnext.org/blog/" title="The Ed Next empire expands to the blogosphere">Education Next Blog</a></li> <li><a href="http://blog.eduflack.com" title="He wants you to look good!" target="_blank">EduFlack</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/dayton/education/index.html" target="_blank">Get On The Bus (Dayton Daily News)</a></li> <li><a href="http://gothamschools.org/" title="24 hour-a-day coverage of the vipers’ nest that is education policy in NYC" target="_blank">Gotham Schools</a></li> <li><a href="http://blogs.greatschools.net/" target="_blank">GreatSchools Blog</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.grumpyprofessor.com" target="_blank">Grumpy Professor</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.newamerica.net/programs/education_policy/higher_ed_watch/blog/" target="_blank">Higher Ed Watch</a></li> <li><a href="http://hipteacher.typepad.com/schoolblog/" target="_blank">Hip Teacher</a></li> <li><a href="http://ithoughtathink.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">I Thought A Think</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.learningalternatives.net/" target="_blank">IALA</a></li> <li><a href="http://mspappas.preknow.org/" target="_blank">Inside Pre-K</a></li>
<li><a href="http://insideschools.org/blog/">Inside Schools Blog</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.eiaonline.com/intercepts/" title="Education’s union man" target="_blank">Intercepts</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.ivygateblog.com/" target="_blank">IvyGate</a></li> <li><a href="http://jaypgreene.com/" title="TV reviews, education commentary, and vouchers for everyone!" target="_blank">Jay Greene</a></li> <li><a href="http://drcookie.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Jenny D.</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.joannejacobs.com/" title="Come for the excerpts, stay for the comments!" target="_blank">Joannejacobs.com</a></li> <li><a href="http://gwu-kindlingflames.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Kindling Flames</a></li> <li><a href="http://kitchentablemath.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Kitchen Table Math</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.pbs.org/teachersource/learning.now/" target="_blank">Learning Now (PBS)</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.publicschoolinsights.org/" title="The Blob Blogs! But guaranteed at least 75 percent tendentious - or your money back!">LFA – Public School Insights</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.linkeducation.org/blog" title="Education social networking" target="_blank">LinkEd</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.matthewktabor.com/" title="He’s pissed and pointed" target="_blank">Mathew K. Tabor</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.pbs.org/teachers/mediainfusion/" target="_blank">Media Infusion</a></li> <li><a href="http://stsg.wordpress.com/" title="Good luck with that!">Meeting the Turnaround Challenge Blog</a></li> <li><a href="http://mikerosebooks.blogspot.com/">Mike Rose’s Blog</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.speedofcreativity.org/" target="_blank">Moving At The Speed Of Creativity</a></li>
<li><a href="http://bgenglish.blogspot.com/index.html" target="_blank">Mr. B-G’s English Blog</a></li> <li><a href="http://msfrizzle.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">Ms. Frizzle</a></li> <li><a href="http://education.nationaljournal.com/" title="Eliza Krigman plays ringmaster for a three ring educircus!">National Journal's Education Blog</a></li> <li><a href="http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/NCLB-ActII/" target="_blank">NCLB Act II (Ed Week)</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.letsgetitright.org/blog/" title="Now seen mostly on milk cartons" target="_blank">NCLBlog (AFT)</a></li> <li><a href="http://schoolnerdblog.blogspot.com/" title="She’s smart, snarky, and teaching! (And she’s missed!)" target="_blank">Newoldschoolteacher</a></li> <li><a href="http://boardbuzz.nsba.org/" title="In the first place, NSBA made this blog" target="_blank">NSBA’s BoardBuzz</a></li>
I don't actually have anything to say. Kathleen is due any day, and I'm looking forward to a few weeks of staying home, getting poor sleep, and changing diapers. But mostly I'm testing to see if journal saving works properly.
Anyone have any preferences for a b/g/n router? I'd like one so that I can put my nice, modern Apple stuff on the N side of things, and the shitty, legacy crap over on the b/g side. Already have an older Time Capsule that isn't full, so I'm not going that route. (Oh, and I'll probably not give my brother access to the N, cause he pisses me off too much).
Thinking to bridge the connection from that to the Time Capsule, and let the Time Capsule handle the rest of it.
I don't care about off the wall firmware. That doesn't interest me in any way, shape or form. Unless I have to deal with that kind of malarkey to get either my Time Capsule or my tons of BT stuff to work nicely.
First, read my comment, now look around at the other comments.
This is what happened: * The guv'mint hands over development of this service to private parties. * Those private parties rip off the guv'mint, it's extremely wasteful. * People at a public institution (part of the guv'mint) pointed out that this could've been done way cheaper, by the guv'mint without private parties involvement.
This is what everyone says which gets modded as insightful: * The guv'mint is wasteful! * We should let private parties handle stuff instead, they're more efficient.
You have a large group of people who are so blinded by their "Capitalist" ideology that even events *directly contrary* to their thesis are interpreted as validation of it, instead. This would be like saying that the fall of the Soviet Union proved the soundness of state socialism - which even advocates of state socialism do not say! It's off the end of the crazy spectrum.
We've made some significant updates to the submission/journal system. Visiting Submissions and Journals yields a new form that allows stuff like tags to the data types. There are a number of annoying bugs, but for the most part the dust is starting to settle. More notes will be coming, but this journal entry is really just me putting the final test on the new Journal form.
I've lurked at/. without posting for ages, mostly because I just don't have the time to interact like I used to.
But I've been clicking through the old RSS feed more and more lately, and when I saw the PAX Plague thread today, I came over to comment, since I'm kind of affected by the whole damn thing. I thought I'd take a look around since I haven't been here in awhile, and I saw that there are freaking ACHIEVEMENTS associated with our accounts. It's silly, and I'm sure it's been here forever, but I thought it was awesome and I was delighted when I read it.
I didn't realize how much I missed Slashdot until I spent some time here today, and I bet that anyone who joined in the last 2 years doesn't even give a shit about my stupid comments or anything, but it felt good to come back here, and feel safely among my people again.
Okay, let's briefly review how the whole AIG thing blew up. When fire-breathing right wingers started talking about it, the major news media noticed, and it becamse a real political liability. So getting mention only on dailykos (or elsewhere on "our side") is not sufficient to achieve something here.
This means there are *two* benefits to having Dems in power - the filthy pachyderms have it together to function as an opposition, at least some of the time. So how do we get them to do it, in this case?
The Obama administration's sec. of education is Arne Duncan. Eli Broad (a "philanthropist") has been going around bragging about how he now controls the department of education. I have all kinds of left-wing-flavored objections to "public-private partnerships" (including stuff like privatized prisons,) but let's start here: "crooked self dealing" is not popular, so the crooked and corrupt rebranded their policies as public-private partnerships or as venture philanthropy. My Mom goes into it in some detail: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/3/20/710776/-Who-is-Running-Our-Schools
Republicans have been, historically, as bad or worse than the Dems on this - but I don't care! *I* just want the system cleaned up, I want these scum thrown out. If this means that the Republicans can score political points, fine - better that than tolerating people like Arne Duncan.
A lot of the more libertarian wing of Republicans, with whom I ordinarily have more in common, like privatization or market-incentive based systems for delivering public services. I think it's crazy for a dozen reasons, but I don't want to get into that: there's pretty well universal agreement that outright corruption, that business and other ties between those who actually get the public money and those in government, are not acceptable. That's what we have here.
So, do any of my fellow slashdotters have any advice on how to get the right wing blogosphere (pudge specifically for all I care) to notice this as an issue and take it up? The whole thing could be a major embarassment for Obama, which it damn well should be. OTOH, it's a family of policies that Republicans have historically supported, so does this have a chance of changing those? Any way we can add provisions requiring transparency and accountability (not of the teachers, but of the *people who actually get the money*) to the education stimulus?
I can also discuss the underlying issue of government-services privitization, if anyone wants.
First of all, I don't want this published to the frontpage...
Having said that, I have a quick question. I'm a Java guy that manages a few younger java guys. I have been asked to tech a.net guy that (according to his resume) has managed over 30 developers. How do I tech a guy like that? Do I just stick with OO/patterns questions? I know how to tech a java guy, but one that has more experience than me is a daunting task...
WTF am I supposed to do with 15 mod points? I have enough trouble spending 5, chrissakes.
Anyway, I regard down-modding this as mod-abuse: http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1079987&cid=26322341
He's expressing a (clearly unpopular) opinion with which I disagree. I'd certainly up-mod the person arguing with him. But is this flamebait because most people disagree with it? He seems sincere to me.
Later on he could legitimately be called a troll since he starts insulting people.