Spoilers for the "American Idol" eliminations -- and the not-as-nauseating-as-feared new twist -- coming right up... So, short version: Jasmine Murray and Jorge Nunez go home. Megan has to stand on stage with Jasmine, and Anoop has to stand with Jorge, even though DialIdol said Noop Dogg was safe(*)...

Learning to Teach for Social Justice, ed. Linda Darling-Hammond, Jennifer French, and Silvia Paloma Garcia-Lopez, is a book that was given to me as a gift, in more ways than one, at the end of STEP. We each got one. It's a collection of essays by STEP student-teachers (from years before me!) I've re...

They got in! My kids got into our first choice school. Both of them. Woo fucking hoo! I am seriously having a hard time taking it all in. I can't remember ever being this happy or proud. On Saturday, my husband and I were on different flights home from Hawaii. So when I got home, I picked up our car...

Wow. So I am good at updating. Sarcasm. I am procrastinating an 18 page research paper. Truth. I don't know. I feel obligated to give a good update while I am here.So my last update hinted at the fact that I went to Boston to see some celebrities.Those celebrities were The Lonely Island. So in this ...

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Every time I turn on the television, or read a newspaper, I find myself getting depressed.  Obviously, with our global economic woes, it's hard to find much to be happy about.  Closer to home, departmental budget cuts and salary freezes aren't fun either. I know I get 'down in the dumps' very quic...

I recently realized that the professional SN site LinkedIn has discussion threads. So today I was looking at this discussion about this article, and in the course of the discussion someone asked about this study, which she described as having "debunked reading and math software." Now, five years of ...

I remember the long nights my father spent at the office, his tired face, and his hours of undone work that we helped him do in the middle of our living room floor. I remember the business trips, the budgets, and the work ethic. Most of all, I remember what he said when I questioned why he worked so...

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) noted that since President Obama took office, Congress has spent about $1 billion dollars an hour. “In just 50 days, Congress has voted to spend about $1.2 trillion between the Stimulus and the Omnibus,� McConnell says. “To put that in perspective,...

Since Obama was inaugurated, Congress has voted to spent around $1,000,000,000  per hour. Let's have some fun with the math. There are around 300,000,000 people in this country. Let's say that every man, woman, child, infant, and octogenarian works an 8 hour day. Congress is allocating...