This tradition is a major reason why the Cuban Revolution’s early literacy campaign was so successful–almost the entire population had been listening to stories for hours a day for many years.

The #ShakesPalin phenomenon is fascinating, and funny. Someone tweeted “Want to refudiate with me?” which inspired me to “refudiate bipression” Here’s a li newspaper of them: http://paper.li/tag/ShakesPalin

There’s a hatchet job on Obama’s Dept. of Ed., making them complete copies of Bush in continuing to support NCLB (which they do way too much, it’s true); but the real story is, the District administrators didn’t do their due…

Larry Bush shared a couple of good quotes from and about Herbert on Jewdayo today: Herbert Marcuse, whose cultural critique of capitalism and its dynamics of human alienation helped shape the utopianism of the New Left student movement in America,…

Another old jewel from Ricardo Levins Morales, Art for Social Justice: it’s forty years since (at age 14) he did this woodcut of Angela Davis, fugitive

discussing educational reform with David Wees and David Miles yesterday; David W. published the podcast: http://davidwees.com/content/conversation-educators-episode-1

Kevin Hodgson’s “Answer Cloud” to the question, “Where do you learn about classroom innovation?”