I think I might have a somewhat unusual “spin” on the tragic deaths of Dr. Tiller and Mr. Johns. What Dr. Tiller and Mr. Johns have in common is that they were gunned down in public settings by cold-blooded killers who doubtless felt they were righteous in their deadly actions. After Dr. Tiller was gunned down while […]
Yesterday’s e-mails included a post from a good friend, Leslie Hendricks, calling attention to a local newspaper article about the opening of a new Farmers Market in her suburban community. Leslie had good reason to be excited about the article (http://tinyurl.com/mjhlh2) since the New Hope Community Farmers Market is her idea, tirelessly promoted beginning in […]
Last night I was at a celebration dinner for an organization, World Citizen http://www.peacesites.org . World Citizen is a good group to get to know. It’s Mission Statement: “Empower the Education Community to Promote a Just and Peaceful World.” At the celebration, one of my table mates was a new acquaintance, Abby, irrepressible, four years […]
Continuing the “Crash Course” conversation (previous postings at May 11 and June 3, 2009). This “thread” tends towards conversation about Climate Change. I recommend an eight minute down-to-earth talk by 2007 Nobel Peace Prize co-winner, Prof Richard Alley, to school children about the topic. It is accessible at http://www.peacesites.org/educators/nobelfestival. Click on link to Prof. Alley’s presentation. Professor […]
For previous posts mentioning President Obama, see Categories. A reader comment follows this post Today President Obama is at Normandy; yesterday at Buchenwald; Thursday at Cairo…. The analysis of the Presidents words is and will be unending, but one particular piece of analysis by a single “special interest” group, and some more general articles about […]
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 […]