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2NITE: My guest is Oscar-winning actress Julie Andrews. I assume she's here because I'm one of her favorite things. @colbertreport, 11:30pm — Stephen Colbert (@StephenAtHome) February 6, 2013
2NITE: My guest is Oscar-winning actress Julie Andrews. I assume she's here because I'm one of her favorite things. @colbertreport, 11:30pm
TONIGHT: Skeletal remains of Richard III discovered & a new TV show may fix unemployment levels. | Watch with friends 11:30p ET on @zeebox. — The Colbert Report (@ColbertReport) February 6, 2013
TONIGHT: Skeletal remains of Richard III discovered & a new TV show may fix unemployment levels. | Watch with friends 11:30p ET on @zeebox.
Tonight: Jon talks to NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly about why Detroit gets allthe robocops. #DailyShow 11/10c. — The Daily Show (@TheDailyShow) February 6, 2013
Tonight: Jon talks to NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly about why Detroit gets allthe robocops. #DailyShow 11/10c.
Twitter "consensus": @thedailyshow @m_rhee Jon, you totally whiffed on that teacher-hating snake in the grass. Softball, dude. She's the stuff of my nightmares. — Sandi Robertson (@sandirobertson) February 6, 2013 @thedailyshow Thank you for supporting education and teachers and for not being afraid to ask the tough questions #thisteacherthanksyou — Delia Bush (@DeliaBush) February 6, 2013 @thedailyshow Allowing Rhee 2 speak last night means #MassAmnesia continues & more children harmedbit.ly/X88O3Z — Peggy Robertson (@PegwithPen) February 6, 2013 Watching Rhee on Jon Stewart. He's such a good teacher advocate. She's a flat-out liar. Blame teachers b/c data, ignore other things. — Kelly(@Kell8Sull) February 6, 2013
@thedailyshow @m_rhee Jon, you totally whiffed on that teacher-hating snake in the grass. Softball, dude. She's the stuff of my nightmares. — Sandi Robertson (@sandirobertson) February 6, 2013
@thedailyshow @m_rhee Jon, you totally whiffed on that teacher-hating snake in the grass. Softball, dude. She's the stuff of my nightmares.
@thedailyshow Thank you for supporting education and teachers and for not being afraid to ask the tough questions #thisteacherthanksyou — Delia Bush (@DeliaBush) February 6, 2013
@thedailyshow Thank you for supporting education and teachers and for not being afraid to ask the tough questions #thisteacherthanksyou
@thedailyshow Allowing Rhee 2 speak last night means #MassAmnesia continues & more children harmedbit.ly/X88O3Z — Peggy Robertson (@PegwithPen) February 6, 2013
@thedailyshow Allowing Rhee 2 speak last night means #MassAmnesia continues & more children harmedbit.ly/X88O3Z
Watching Rhee on Jon Stewart. He's such a good teacher advocate. She's a flat-out liar. Blame teachers b/c data, ignore other things. — Kelly(@Kell8Sull) February 6, 2013
Watching Rhee on Jon Stewart. He's such a good teacher advocate. She's a flat-out liar. Blame teachers b/c data, ignore other things.
If you have somehow missed (true) video ofKai, the Hatchet-Wielding Homeless Surfer Hero.Gnarly, man.bit.ly/VC6nVL — Greg Mitchell (@GregMitch) February 6, 2013
If you have somehow missed (true) video ofKai, the Hatchet-Wielding Homeless Surfer Hero.Gnarly, man.bit.ly/VC6nVL
I love the whole world/My lovely Alderaan/Then came the Death Star/Now it's all Alder-gaan/Boom de a dah/Boom de a dah… #starwarsthemusical — Kurt Busiek (@KurtBusiek) February 6, 2013
I love the whole world/My lovely Alderaan/Then came the Death Star/Now it's all Alder-gaan/Boom de a dah/Boom de a dah… #starwarsthemusical
Wikipedia PBS Frontline: The Education of Michelle Rhee twitter RheeFirst.com Conn. politics blog tagged articles include Education Reformer Michelle Rhee tells Connecticut: You Suck! Diane Ravitch's Blog Today's headline: Self-described “radical” Michelle Rhee and her PR machine roll into New York City Michelle Rhee to actually be held accountable by press for once The problem with Michelle Rhee’s report card for public schools Michelle Rhee's Report Card On State Education Policies Draws Union Ire brief OMG interview in NYTMagazine The Empire Michelle Rhee Built (by Charles P. Pierce) Notable:
One problem with the education "reform" industry is not merely that it generally looks at "education" as though it were a commodity, like soybeans, and that the problems with how we educate a great many children of our fellow citizens can be solved if we just refine the delivery systems for the product. In other words, most education "reform" proponents treat "education" as though it exists in a vacuum unaffected by the factors — like, say, joblessness and poverty — in the real world outside the classroom...Thus do we come to the second problem with the education "reform" movement — it is shot through root and branch with patent-medicine remedies pitched by for-profit grifters and hustlers. They have their own genre of richly financed propaganda, like 2010's Waiting for Superman and this year's Won't Back Down. There are an awful lot of hedge-fund gunslingers involved in the movement toward charter schools... Standardized testing is a crack cocaine of education. It is rife with problems. It is also a multimillion industry without which might not exist, among other things, The Washington Post*. A reliance on standardized testing as a metric for progress is generally a reliable "tell" that "reform" has ended and that the grift has begun... The current model for education "reform" in this country — a corporate model with transparency problems and severely decreased political accountability — is broken. Handing over "our" schools to hedge-fund managers, and to the people like Michelle Rhee who volunteer as well-remunerated middle managers, privatizes public education without having the basic cojones to admit that it's happening...
They have their own genre of richly financed propaganda, like 2010's Waiting for Superman and this year's Won't Back Down. There are an awful lot of hedge-fund gunslingers involved in the movement toward charter schools...
Standardized testing is a crack cocaine of education. It is rife with problems. It is also a multimillion industry without which might not exist, among other things, The Washington Post*. A reliance on standardized testing as a metric for progress is generally a reliable "tell" that "reform" has ended and that the grift has begun...
The current model for education "reform" in this country — a corporate model with transparency problems and severely decreased political accountability — is broken. Handing over "our" schools to hedge-fund managers, and to the people like Michelle Rhee who volunteer as well-remunerated middle managers, privatizes public education without having the basic cojones to admit that it's happening...
Wikipediaat NYC.gov Crime Is Up, And Ray Kelly Has Record High Approval Rating A Few Questions Raised Over NYPD Commish Ray Kelly's Popularity 9 key points from Ray Kelly's 2013 State of the NYPD address Three Fictions From Ray Kelly's State Of The NYPD Speech Congress, the NRA, and the Great Gun Debate 42-Year-Old Fight Over Illegal NYPD Surveillance Escalates With New Filing NYPD Muslim Spying Program Violates Handschu Rules, Say Civil Rights Lawyers Family of teen shot dead by NYPD pursue lawsuit
A different Ray Kelly: "The Irish American rock and roll community was gutted to its core this week with the news of the sudden death of Ray Kelly, 46..." One album review
An inspiring memoir from the laconic CEO and chairman of AT&T and GM...In what is basically a vanity project, albeit a sweet one, Whitacre describes his philosophy, management style, and business principles, all of which are interesting, but not particularly novel.
A tough-talking Texan offers business truisms...Such things might seem self-evident and obvious, but when Whitacre serves up horror stories of corporate culture run amok, including places where ordinary employees weren’t allowed to ride in the same elevators as top management and where those same ordinary employees were made to feel as if they were scarcely worth being seen, let alone being heard, then it becomes more obvious that common-sensical approaches have to be beaten into the heads of some of the privileged corporate elite...a refreshing amount of sunshine and fresh air, with guardedness surrounding only the question of why he left GM...A keeper in a field of undercooked, underwritten books by CEOs.
Everyone involved with the General Motors turnaround seems to think it's important to note that they were the ones who actually saved GM, even though the company is still far from being a model of business success. Today's turn comes from former AT&T CEO and very very interim GM CEO Ed Whitacre in excerpts from his new book "American Turnaround" on Fortune this morning. There's a lot to swallow from what sounds like an auto-hagioraphy...The work of GM is far from finished, so this is more like a "Mission Accomplished" moment for Whitacre, who seems keen on using his brief tenure at GM to sell books, just like he sold your personal information to the NSA so they could spy on you.
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So proud that I have made the "CNBC Personalities Losing It" HuffPo slide showhuff.to/11fVYkX via @huffpostbiz — Neil Barofsky (@neilbarofsky) January 30, 2013
So proud that I have made the "CNBC Personalities Losing It" HuffPo slide showhuff.to/11fVYkX via @huffpostbiz
Too Big to Jail: Our Banking System's Latest Disgrace via HuffPo tag Mandelman Matters
Be this dog's Mary Poppins Posted: Monday, February 4, 2013, 3:01 AM THE Daily News Pet of the Week is Julie Andrews, a 1-to-2-year-old pit-bull mix at the Philadelphia Animal Welfare Society. Julie Andrews is friendly and willing to please. She would be fine with other dogs and with children. To adopt Julie Andrews, contact PAWS, 100 N. 2nd St., at 215-238-9901, before visiting the shelter. When inquiring, provide her tag identifier - A18835767.
Posted: Monday, February 4, 2013, 3:01 AM THE Daily News Pet of the Week is Julie Andrews, a 1-to-2-year-old pit-bull mix at the Philadelphia Animal Welfare Society.
Julie Andrews is friendly and willing to please. She would be fine with other dogs and with children.
To adopt Julie Andrews, contact PAWS, 100 N. 2nd St., at 215-238-9901, before visiting the shelter. When inquiring, provide her tag identifier - A18835767.
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"like a pirate novel but with celebrities in it" - my favorite review ever. thehairpin.com/2013/01/going-… — Lawrence Wright (@lawrence_wright) January 22, 2013
"like a pirate novel but with celebrities in it" - my favorite review ever. thehairpin.com/2013/01/going-…
That crunching sound you hear is Lawrence Wright bending over backward to be fair to Scientology. Every deceptive comparison with Mormonism and other religions is given a respectful hearing. Every ludicrous bit of church dogma is served up deadpan. This makes the book’s indictment that much more powerful...
(As always when re:Scientology, there's a whole lot more out there in GoogleVille. A good topic to bookmark for those days when the internet just seems so boring...)
Wikipedia imdb Movie Wikipedia Hey, he's a local! Lookit all this attention the local boy gets! Another town, he's a local there, too. And what proud parents, Such a credit.
Benh Zeitlin lives among the people he makes films about How ‘Beasts’ Director Benh Zeitlin Reacted to His Oscar Nominations moviesite RottenTomatoes How Benh Zeitlin Made Beasts of the Southern Wild The Smithsonian American Ingenuity Award winner for visual arts transformed filmmaking as he assembled a new myth out of Hurricane Katrina movie twitter some videos How Benh Zeitlin Created the Southern Wild (interview)