Tag: Qotd

QOTD — What Kind of Educational Summit Doesn’t Want to Listen to Its Practitioners?

Filed in National by on October 7, 2013 8 Comments
QOTD —  What Kind of Educational Summit Doesn’t Want to Listen to Its Practitioners?

And by practitioners, I mean teachers. Today, Governor Markell is participating in the NBC News Education Nation Summit in NYC. He is talking about early learning initiatives here, with Harriet Dichter, Executive Director of the Delaware Office of Early Learning.

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QOTW — What to Read This Summer?

Filed in Open Thread by on June 22, 2013 5 Comments
QOTW — What to Read This Summer?

QOTW = Question of the Weekend. So it is officially summer and I know some folks will try to catch up on their reading while the world slows down a little. Sometimes the reading is in taking up a challenge (like the Infinite Summer group reading Infinite Jest, or last summer’s OccupyGaddis group) or just moving something long intended to the top of the stack or some new summer blockbuster (there’s a new Dan Brown out) or escaping to some spy or romance world. So do we have any summer readers here?

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QOTD — A Modest Proposal on Legislator Pay

Filed in Delaware by on April 8, 2013 11 Comments
QOTD — A Modest Proposal on Legislator Pay

I saw this proposal on Facebook the other night and — frankly — this makes sense to me. If we are focused like a laser beam on compensating teachers for effectiveness (and for effectiveness over factors they can’t always control), why not compensate legislators the same way? What do you think?

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QOTD — Why Is the NJ Still Paying Attention To This Woman?

Filed in Delaware by on March 28, 2013 3 Comments

This question is courtesy of commenter AQC. And the woman in question is Lenore Matusiewicz, the wife of the man who shot their grandchildren’s mother at the NCCo Courthouse. It looks from here that the NJ is basically a venue for pretty much every antic this woman is working on. Today’s antic are claims that the the State of Delaware is withholding her husband’s body from her and withholding the autopsy report. Insert eye rolls here.

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QOTD — Should Sandra Fluke Be Considered as Time’s Person of the Year?

Filed in National by on November 30, 2012 31 Comments

She’s in Time’s finalist group (sorry, this is presented as serious click bait) — a group that included Gabby Douglas, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, Sheldon Adelson (!?), Paul Ryan (!?), Joe Biden, The Higgs-Boson, Malala Yousafzai , among others. Conservatives are having fits that Fluke is included, with this bit being fairly representative:

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QOTD 2 — Lunch with Obama and Romney, What Do You Think They Will Talk About?

Filed in National by on November 29, 2012 6 Comments

Today, President Obama and failed Presidential candidate Mitt Romney are having a private lunch. During his acceptance speech on Election Night, President Obama noted that he would meet with Mitt to see if there is a way forward together. One of the things I like the best about Barack Obama is how easily graceful he […]

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QOTD — Who Was the Worst Candidate of 2012?

Filed in National by on November 20, 2012 39 Comments

Chris Cilizza of WaPo put together his list and awarded the Worst Candidate in the World (actually, they call it the Fixy) to one of the GOP’s professional whakos — Rick Perry.

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Quote of the Day 5/17/11

Filed in National by on May 17, 2011 2 Comments

“Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be maintained.” – President James A. Garfield

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