Furor and fuss about Black Jesus, by Denise Oliver Velez Race, gender and comic book films, by Mark Sumner A Netroots Nation 2014 gem that was missed by many, by Egberto Willies Busting the seven great myths of poverty, by Mark E Andersen The law President Obama did not faithfully execute, by Jon Perr A Walmart in North Dakota: Or AEI thinks you're dumber than a bag of hammers, by Dante Atkins Obama is 100 percent right to throw red meat of lawsuit and impeachment talk back at Republicans, by Ian Reifowitz What Washington's top-two primary will tell us about the Democratic chances to flip the state Senate, by Jeff Singer
Race, gender and comic book films, by Mark Sumner
A Netroots Nation 2014 gem that was missed by many, by Egberto Willies
Busting the seven great myths of poverty, by Mark E Andersen
The law President Obama did not faithfully execute, by Jon Perr
A Walmart in North Dakota: Or AEI thinks you're dumber than a bag of hammers, by Dante Atkins
Obama is 100 percent right to throw red meat of lawsuit and impeachment talk back at Republicans, by Ian Reifowitz
What Washington's top-two primary will tell us about the Democratic chances to flip the state Senate, by Jeff Singer
For more than 20 years, the prosecutor who convicted Cameron Todd Willingham of murdering his three young daughters has insisted that the authorities made no deals to secure the testimony of the jailhouse informer who told jurors that Willingham confessed the crime to him. [He was executed in 2004.] But now new evidence has revived questions about Willingham’s guilt: In taped interviews, Webb, who has previously both recanted and affirmed his testimony, gives his first detailed account of how he lied on the witness stand in return for efforts by the former prosecutor, John H. Jackson, to reduce Webb’s prison sentence for robbery and to arrange thousands of dollars in support from a wealthy Corsicana rancher. Newly uncovered letters and court files show that Jackson worked diligently to intercede for Webb after his testimony and to coordinate with the rancher, Charles S. Pearce Jr., to keep the mercurial informer in line.
But now new evidence has revived questions about Willingham’s guilt: In taped interviews, Webb, who has previously both recanted and affirmed his testimony, gives his first detailed account of how he lied on the witness stand in return for efforts by the former prosecutor, John H. Jackson, to reduce Webb’s prison sentence for robbery and to arrange thousands of dollars in support from a wealthy Corsicana rancher. Newly uncovered letters and court files show that Jackson worked diligently to intercede for Webb after his testimony and to coordinate with the rancher, Charles S. Pearce Jr., to keep the mercurial informer in line.
Frustrated in their efforts to make paid sick leave mandatory for businesses throughout New Jersey, workers’ advocates are now pressing their campaign city by city, emboldened by laws recently passed in Newark and Jersey City, as well as in New York City. A coalition of advocacy groups is pushing sympathetic officials in East Orange, Irvington, Montclair, Passaic, Paterson and Trenton to let their voters decide on the issue. The coalition, led by the New Jersey Working Families Alliance, faces a deadline on Tuesday to deliver enough signed petitions to get the question on the November ballot in those cities and towns.
A coalition of advocacy groups is pushing sympathetic officials in East Orange, Irvington, Montclair, Passaic, Paterson and Trenton to let their voters decide on the issue. The coalition, led by the New Jersey Working Families Alliance, faces a deadline on Tuesday to deliver enough signed petitions to get the question on the November ballot in those cities and towns.
Libby Nelson: Why is there so little attention paid to the practice of classroom teaching? EG: The fathers of educational psychology, the first education school professors, were bored by classroom practice. Edward Thorndike, who set the tone for all future education researchers, said when somebody asked him what he would do in a particular real-life situation at a school, "Do? I'd resign!" I think that's typical of a university system that focuses on disciplinary research—it's the history of education, the psychology of education. It's not education itself as a thing to study. That has meant that we train future teachers in everything but how to teach, pretty much.
EG: The fathers of educational psychology, the first education school professors, were bored by classroom practice. Edward Thorndike, who set the tone for all future education researchers, said when somebody asked him what he would do in a particular real-life situation at a school, "Do? I'd resign!" I think that's typical of a university system that focuses on disciplinary research—it's the history of education, the psychology of education. It's not education itself as a thing to study. That has meant that we train future teachers in everything but how to teach, pretty much.
Dennis Mathisen, spokesman for the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, told the LA Times that “we’re seeing fire behavior we wouldn’t normally see until September.” “With warmer weather conditions, low humidity and some wind, and all you need is a spark, and a series of dry lightning strikes, and that’s a recipe for disaster.”
“With warmer weather conditions, low humidity and some wind, and all you need is a spark, and a series of dry lightning strikes, and that’s a recipe for disaster.”