On The NYC Public High School with Nine Black Students
Couldn't Michael Bloomberg -- a data driven Mayor that claimed he wanted to be "the education Mayor" -- have put in place programs in public junior high schools that steer gifted minority students to the top-tier schools? I am someone who went to Brooklyn Tech, one of the three specialized schools at the time. I never understood why there were no programs -- afterschool, weekend, etc -- that, at the time, steered more people of color to spending a cold winter weekend taking the test and getting into one of the good schools. It is even more absurd considering the percentages of people of color in the city! The laissez-faire approach to this incredible discrepancy in publicly funded schools really does not augur well. It doesn't take a kid that went to a specialized high school to figure that out ..
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On God (Or Maybe "Utilities") Hates Gawker
No internet access? "I cried because I had no shoes until I met a man who had no feet .."
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On Big—And Little–Changes at 'The New Republic,' Which Is a Magazine
Just so long as we don't see glowing cover stories on Charles Murray's The Bell Curve anymore. That was my dealbreaker with the Peretz era TNR ..
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On Take A Minute To Watch The New Way We Make Web Headlines Now
The Joy of Southernface
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On What Was The First Thing You Shoplifted?
I got so busted trying to shoplist a candy called Toffeefay when I was like 6 years old ata supermarket that it turned me off of that Dark Art forever. I never improved my skillz. My mom, an ex-nun, really read me the riot act on that one.
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On Will Chuck Hagel's Hatred Of Gays Cancel Out His Hatred For Israel?
Yeah -- but what is his stance on Kenny Loggins?
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On Media Stunned To Learn That Rest Of World More Interested Infomercials Than Media Reporting
no one seems to care about this post either (except ME)...