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djtansey's blogStudents attend school's first integrated promSubmitted by djtansey on Tue, 04/24/2007 - 1:19pm.http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/04/23/turner.prom/index.html By Kristi Keck
CNN ASHBURN, Georgia (CNN) -- Students of Turner County High School started what they hope will become a new tradition: Black and white students attended the prom together for the first time on Saturday. In previous years, parents had organized private, segregated dances for students of the school in rural Ashburn, Georgia, 160 miles south of Atlanta. The Lives of OthersSubmitted by djtansey on Fri, 04/06/2007 - 8:24pm.I just watched the German movie "The Lives of Others" at AFI Silver Spring. It is one of the best movies I've ever seen. It's a little like Crash in that it really develops peoples characters and shows how people can change. Modern-Day Slavery in AmericaSubmitted by djtansey on Tue, 03/27/2007 - 8:14am.http://abcnews.go.com/US/print?id=2981327 Bill O'Reily on Our ProtestSubmitted by djtansey on Sun, 03/25/2007 - 10:39am.I didn't realize we were the "pro-surrender" group.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=XYLySI95148
For Teachers, Middle School Is Test of WillsSubmitted by djtansey on Sun, 03/18/2007 - 11:46am.The Critical Years
When a student at Seth Low Intermediate School loudly pronounced Corinne Kaufman a “fat lady†during a fire drill one recent day, Mrs. Kaufman, a 45-year-old math teacher, calmly turned around. “Voluptuous,†she retorted, then proceeded to define the unfamiliar term, cutting off the laughter and offering a memorable vocabulary lesson in the process. U-Turn on H StreetSubmitted by djtansey on Sun, 03/18/2007 - 9:04am.A very good article on race relations/gentrification/etc in D.C. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/17/AR2007031700699.html "If you were eight blocks past uncertainty, three steps from neglect, five houses down from hope, and you just saw a white man with ear buds rollerblading past a crack house without looking up, would you know what street you were on in the City?
A Critique of Pure ReasonSubmitted by djtansey on Fri, 03/02/2007 - 9:19am. All the presidential candidates this year will talk about education. The conventional ones will talk about improving the schools. The creative ones will talk about improving the lives of students. The conventional ones, though they don’t know it, are prisoners of the dead husk of behaviorism. They will speak of education as if children were blank slates waiting to have ideas inputted into their brains with some efficient delivery mechanism. Game Over: Thirty-Six Sure-Fire Signs That Your Empire Is CrumblingSubmitted by djtansey on Fri, 03/02/2007 - 8:58am.by David Michael Green So. You’ve built yourself an empire, eh? Well, bully for you! What’s next, you ask? Well, now you’ve got to do what everybody does when they have an empire, of course. You’ve got to worry about it falling apart, mate! But how to tell for sure? Let me see if I can be helpful. Here are some rules of thumb to keep in mind, thirty-six sure-fire indicators that your empire is falling apart: Md. boy dies from toothacheSubmitted by djtansey on Wed, 02/28/2007 - 2:57pm.Maryland boy, 12, dies after bacteria from tooth spread to his brain
By Mary Otto
The Washington Post
Updated: 2:20 p.m. ET Feb 28, 2007
WASHINGTON - Twelve-year-old Deamonte Driver died of a toothache Sunday. A routine, $80 tooth extraction might have saved him. If his mother had been insured. If his family had not lost its Medicaid. If Medicaid dentists weren't so hard to find. A Fighter for Colleges That Have Everything but StatusSubmitted by djtansey on Wed, 02/28/2007 - 2:26pm.By ALAN FINDER BAILEY’S CROSSROADS, Va. LOREN POPE has been bucking convention nearly all of his life, which is to say for a long, long time. Mr. Pope, who is 96, grew up in northern Virginia, a Democrat in a family he describes as “hard-core Republican.†He worked as an editor at Washington newspapers and a local radio station, but left the news business for a while in the late 1940s to farm and raise cattle, largely because he thought the press was failing to stand up firmly to anti-Communist bullying. A decade later, he left The New York Times after a year as its education editor, discouraged, he says, by factionalism and bureaucracy.  |