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Does Obama Believe in School Integration? by Richard Kahlenberg
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Hi All... hope this finds everyone well. Those of you who have read some of my other posts on the subject of school integration may be seeing a theme in my thinking on public school transfromation in America.
This post caught my attention and can...
Hi All..... hope everyone is well....
A map of healthy human development........
Hi Fiona... hope this finds you well.... no answers here just plenty of questions :)
I do think many of us have had turnaround people in our lives...they are a gift that sometimes is not even recognized at the time of the encounter. If we stretch...
While on my way to the river, I realized all I have to do is upload a word document with the code in it. I've included simple directions. Feel free to contact me if you get confused.
Mike and Daniel, I so enjoy sharing this type of thing. It truly brings me pleasure. If I know how to do something, it is my delight to share. And if you forget, you can ask again, as many times as you need to! I forget all the time : )
David, la...
Ellen, thanks for the tutorial. I did not know how to convert a ppt to flash before reading this.
Yeah, it worked! I got ispring pro on a Giveaway of the Day... I know it usually costs a bit. I haven't found a free online alternative that works, but since I got ispring pro I haven't looked very hard for it either!
It only takes a minute or tw...
Then I right click (not sure what you do on a Mac!) on the swf file and choose open in a new tab, and grab the url:
http://api.ning.com/files/yDKgS2MJ7I82p5QEvk8jrvPn5nmedJoZBknh4U5uTHRw-fnWmaB3hKdfpIvL7RCgYaJ3SH6zq8NDCoBLaYAot3R*W7KdsEYJ/Creatin...
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And blood pours from my heart in all directions.
Ah, one spark flew and burned the house of my heart.
Smoke filled the sky.
The flames grew fierce in the wind.
The fire of the heart is not easily lit. ( Rumi )
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PUBLIC SCHOOLING VS GOVERNMENT SCHOOLING?!?!
Carlisle Indian School
SCHOOL LIFE
Teachers were waiting at the school to begin their work. Pratt had hired a full complement of staff, both for academic and industrial instruction. They had been carefully selected and were ready to begin as soon as the children arrived. Pratt… Continue
SCHOOL LIFE
Teachers were waiting at the school to begin their work. Pratt had hired a full complement of staff, both for academic and industrial instruction. They had been carefully selected and were ready to begin as soon as the children arrived. Pratt… Continue
Posted on June 5, 2009 at 7:24pm —
Educational Books....... A Collection!!
Hope and Despair in the American City
Why There Are No Bad Schools in Raleigh
Gerald Grant
In 1972, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down a 5–4 verdict in the case of Milliken v. Bradley, thereby blocking the state of Michigan from merging the Detroit public school system with those of… Continue
Posted on March 21, 2009 at 11:19pm — 8 Comments
Mitakuye Oyasin - Lakota
Earliest human footprints made 1.5million years ago show ancestors walked like us
27th February 2009
Two sets of prints were left by Homo ergaster, an early ancestor of modern humans, in separate rock layers near Ileret in northern Kenya.
Laser scanning revealed tha… Continue
Posted on March 10, 2009 at 10:34pm —
Poems that help me to Pause- Collection
SOMETIMES
Sometimes
if you move carefully
through the forest
breathing
like the ones
in the old stories
who could cross
a shimmering bed of dry leaves
without a sound,
you come
to a place
whose only task
is to trouble you
with tiny
but frightening reques… Continue
Posted on February 1, 2009 at 12:01pm — 47 Comments
Cool People's Thoughts
“The finest emotion of which we are capable is the mystic emotion. Herein lies the germ of all art and all true science. Anyone to whom this feeling is alien, who is no longer capable of wonderment and lives in a state of fear is a dead man. To know that what is impenetrable for us really… Continue
Posted on January 14, 2009 at 6:29pm — 12 Comments
Comment Wall (14 comments)
- At 8:27pm on October 25, 2009,
Eemah Martha said… 
Thanks Mike, Keep the resources coming. I love the books you recommend.
- At 2:11pm on October 19, 2009,
Ed Jones said…
- Mike, Thank you for Hope and Despair!
I'm reading slowly, a couple more weeks till my various duties drive me indoors more. But ch 1 and 2, wow!
I've read so much on the state of our cities, been through quite a few, watched some growing back. Yet this is the first good narrative I've seen of what happened in the 50's, 60's, and 70's to make them so. Very touching and angering.
If you haven't checked out Winning the Race: Beyond the Crisis in Black America, I think the two books are complementary, or maybe they cross paths in later chapters.
Thanks!
- At 10:33am on October 18, 2009,
Eemah Martha said…
Thank you Mike for bringing light to our Group :)
- At 10:18am on October 14, 2009,
Connie Weber said…
- Hiya Mike,
Where is the most current draft of the national standards?
- At 10:36pm on September 10, 2009,
cindy fadel said… - Mike,
Would you be willing to share the graphic you posted? I would like to use it if you don't mind. If you tell me who to credit it to, I will mentioned the author.
- At 5:36pm on August 8, 2009,
Paul Hoss said…
- Mike,
Thanks for referring me to this blog and also for the warm welcome. Will jump in soon I'm sure.
Paul
- At 6:13pm on June 26, 2008,
Skip Zilla said… - Hi Mike,
Thought you might appreciate a new book by neuroscientist and political progressive George Lakoff: The Political Mind. Here's a New York Times review of the book.
Skip
- At 5:09pm on June 24, 2008,
Mike Parent said… - Mike, I am originally from Toms River. Where in south Jersey are you?
- At 5:50am on April 12, 2008,
- Hi Mike,
Just wanted to say, run! don't walk to the bookstore--or just have the bookstore deliver at supersonic speed--get Stephanie Pace Marshall's The Power to Transform. Oh my gosh, it's so good. I'm having trouble not underlining everything in the first chapter. Let's discuss it! I bet Skip and some others wouldn't mind adding in another book--particularly this one... wow...I'm drooling.
page 9: "Why Can't Johnny and Susie Read, Write, Count--and Think?
The attributes of our current story of schooling reflect our societal ambitions and predispositions. This 'success' has been at an enormous human cost: reductive thinking that perpetuates an orthodoxy of excessive fragmentation, acquisition, consumption, unhealthy competition, speed, and winning--and then wonders why contentment and a sense of meaning and purpose remain so elusive."
page 11 "The transformative process of creating a radical new story of learning and schooling must be rooted in our deepest learning priorities."
BTW, here are people she sought out as pioneering thinkers--and says she was strongly influenced by: Margaret Wheatley, Myron Kellner-Rogers, Fritjof Capra, Sally Goerner, Dee Hock, Parker Palmer, and Howard Gardner.
I've been reading Wheatley and Capra over the last six months or so--
Does The Power to Transform sound intriguing?
Let's discuss the book--want to?
- At 8:12pm on April 8, 2008,
Skip Zilla said…
- Welcome Mike,
Thanks for all the poetic wit and practical wisdom you add to our discussions.
Do you have a website or external blog that we can link to? We'd be happy to add it to the "can't miss links" box in the lower right panel.
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