Yesterday afternoon I made a spur of the moment visit to an administrator at a Minneapolis college. I found his office. Luckily he was in. I knocked. “Come in”, he said. He was looking at his computer screen, watching a replay of the President Obama speech in Cairo from some hours earlier. My visit to […]
A reader comment follows this post. Note from Moderator: On the local evening news on June 1, the weatherman noted that May, 2009, was one of the driest on record, exceeded only by May, 1934, a year of great drought. Is May, 2009, just an unusual month of weather, or a looming manifestation of serious […]
A reader comment follows this post. Saturday night, May 30, 2009, Susan Boyle’s dream ended…or did it just begin? In blogpost #8, published April 16,2009, I wrote about the astonishing clip I saw of this lady singing on Britain’s Got Talent competition in mid-April. “The rest of the story” of that happening is accessible there. […]
Yesterday was spent with a group of about twenty persons. We were having our annual meeting. It could be fairly said that with very few exceptions, we all knew each other reasonably well. Someone observing us from the outside would quickly note that we were about the same age. We would appear to be homogeneous […]
Note from Moderator: For 77 years Marion Brady has been immersed in public education in numerous roles, from student to teacher to text book author to informed commentator on public education. In blog entry #10, (April 24, 2009), Marion laid out a very simple, but very essential prescription for necessary change in Public Education practice […]
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Taps: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wn_iz8z2AGw Today is Memorial Day, with all the varied meanings attached to it, all of which are deemed by their interpreters to be the proper meaning, all of which commemorate the tragedy of war. An e-mail from Mel in California on Friday, May 23, led me back to a treasure trove of copies of […]
Note from Moderator: Mary Ellen filed this review of a book about the Civil War over a year ago. It seems particulary pertinent as a memory for Memorial Day, 2009. A companion to this article might be a recent talk by Howard Zinn on America’s “Three Holy Wars” at the 100th anniversary celebration of the […]
In #26, May 21, 2009, I mentioned an adventure on which I was about to embark: hooking into something called a webinar on “The Fear Factor: A briefing on communication and messaging from U.S. in the World”. This session was taking place in some conference room in Washington D.C. Apparently at roughly the same time, […]
Shortly I will join a webinar sponsored by the Connect US Fund (www.connectusfund.org). The title of the session “The Fear Factor: A briefing on communication and messaging from U.S. In The World”. The suggested readings are listed at the end of this posting. They are very interesting. I write intentionally before that session convenes. […]