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Link & Rant: “Your children deserve better than this” (Washington Post)
An excellent open letter by two outstanding 1st grade teachers in Tulsa, Oklahoma, defending their decision to stop giving two of the state-mandated assessments to their students. This is one of the most concise, understandable, realistic explanations of the “on the ground” effects of high-stakes testing on the classroom environment. The drive to assess! test!…
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Link: “the truth about welfare”
Excellent read: The distance between poverty and “self-sufficiency” is a no-man’s land. “The Truth About Welfare” http://enduringandafter.com/2014/11/21/the-truth-about-welfare/
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Pimiento Cheese Enchiladas
People. Stop everything and make this for supper tonight or tomorrow or whenever you need a fast and tasty meal. The household invented this on Sunday when we realized we had 1) excellent pimiento cheese (handmade by GiGi’s Gourmet); 2) leftover roasted chicken; 3) half of an onion that I found on the kitchen table;…
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Artist Removes One Letter from Famous Movie Titles and Illustrates the Results «TwistedSifter
Artist Removes One Letter from Famous Movie Titles and Illustrates the Results «TwistedSifter. ^^One of my favorite things on the Interwebs. Thank you, Internet.
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Work, Moms, Families, ‘Merica, and The Dream
I realized while writing that last post: the rabbit trail I wanted to take would turn that post into a monster. So here’s a coda of sorts. America’s work/life balance seems is broken. This is not really a revelation; people have been writing about it, like here (Slate) and here (The Atlantic). Women who work “outside the…
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