Critical Theories in Education
Here’s a good oped on the relationships among social class, dropouts and school reform by Hans G. Despain, a professor in the Department of Economics at Nichols College. As Despain points out, most of the time folks get the logic backwards when it comes to poverty, dropouts, and school reform—” Dropouts don’t cause poverty, unemployment […]
It’s been a while since I’ve updated my listening habits here, April to be exact. Anyway, I continue to love listening to Napster via my Sonos. It’s paricularly fun to stream the new releases on Tuesday mornings as I read reviews of the latest CDs in the paper. And Soma Fm, especially the “Groove Salad” […]
The Chronicle of Higher Education: From Rock ‘n’ Roll Stardom to Academe By INGRID NORTON How do you top the thrill of playing at Woodstock? By going to graduate school, of course. Just ask the members of Sha Na Na, who were the penultimate act at the legendary 1969 rock festival, in the slot just […]
Folksinger and storyteller Utah Phillips, a “national treasure” if there ever was one, died last Friday, May 23. His performances featured the songs, jokes and lore of hobos, tramps, cowboys, migrant workers and Wobblies. Although he made a number of fine recordings, he was most truly in his element in live performances, where he knew […]
Dear Friends, It is May Day, the international workers holiday. Since the massive 2006 immigrant rights marches, what amounted to the biggest general strike in the last seventy years, May Day is finally restored to the US, where it began. For far too many years, it was replaced by Law Day (imposed in the fifties), […]
Seattle Times: Seattle teacher, suspended for refusing to give WASL, calls test “bad for kids” A Seattle teacher is spending two weeks on leave without pay for refusing to give the Washington Assessment of Student Learning (WASL) to his sixth-graders this month at Eckstein Middle School. Carl Chew, 60, who teaches science, wanted to take […]
Ray Davies,—Working Man’s Cafe—Outstanding new album…My favorite of the year to this point Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks, Real Emotional Trash—Pavement guy’s best solo effort IMHO The Uprising, The Other America—Americana with a conscience from Rouge Forum types Tift Merritt, Another Country Credence Clearwater Revival, Chronicle Vol. 1 Shelby Lynne,—Just a Little Lovin’—Bona fide album […]
Friends, Wanted to send you one last email regarding the forthcoming 2008 Rouge Forum Conference. We are pleased to have over 150 people registered so far, who will join us at various times throughout the weekend of the conference. There is, however, still plenty of room for others, so please feel free to continue spreading […]
It was a short month, but lot’s of great music. I’m still buying cds and downloading albums, but Sandra predicted long ago that “hardcopy” music would go the way of the dinosaur. I’ve always been skeptical about that but this month I added a Sonos digital music system to house and it came with a […]
Friends, I wanted to update you on our progress as we begin to finalize all plans for this year’s Rouge Forum Conference. I would invite you to please visit the conference website: www.rougeforumconference.org for information related to hotels, maps, the schedule of papers and professional developments (67 presenters involved in 37 presentations), as well as […]
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