A sublime web find via Maria Popova at Brain Pickings and lindsey out loud
“The idea is a system of good schools rather than a good school system.”
Los Angeles Deputy Mayor of Education (and sister), the awesome Joan Sullivan, speaks out about the role of charter schools:
New from Filmfatale: Silent Films Redux: Underground, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, The Light of Asia…
For a while now, the silent film accompanied by live music has been making a come back in London and beyond. It is an extraordinary way to spend an evening: watching cinematic history in the making while listening to composers' and musicians' interpretations of the visual. Read on at Filmfatale
The Forgotten First Wave: Sheila Rowbotham’s DREAMERS OF A NEW DAY
Winnifred Harper Cooley, Ada Nield Chew, Mary Beard, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Emma Goldman, Jane Addams, Mary Church Terrell, Mona Caird, Ernestine Rose, Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucy Stone, Susan B. Anthony, Phillis Wheatley, Catherine Webb, Beatrice Webb, Charlotte Wilson, Mary Gawthorpe, Mary Ware Dennett, Octavia Hill, Margaret McMillan, Selina Cooper, Vida …
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‘Depoliticizing’ The Standardized Test: My sister Ama Nyamekye’s powerful and important opinion piece from Education Week
In Public Education, Many Teachers Are Pumping Their Fists For the Wrong Reasons In college, I pumped my fist at a rally against standardized testing. I’d never seen the exam I was protesting, but stood in solidarity with educators and labor organizers who felt the testing movement was an attack on teachers, particularly those working …
“Mother of the People”: Biology as Destiny in the Dystopias of Jane Rogers, P.D. James, and Margaret Atwood
Imagine a world where the human race can no longer reproduce itself due to a virus, a likely product of bioterrorism, that attacks a woman's brain at the moment of conception, killing her within days. This is the premise of Jane Rogers's recent novel The Testament of Jesse Lamb. In P.D. James's The Children of …
Chancellor Dennis Walcott Visits The Bronx Academy of Letters on First Day Back to School
•September 8 at 4:29 PM Ben Chapman Perfect punctuality at the Bronx Academy of Letters Every student at the Bronx Academy of Letters arrived on time for the first day of school. Nearly 600 students are enrolled in the Mott Haven school, and Schools Chancellor Dennis Walcott praised them all for their punctuality. "We're proud …
Something About Love: New Photographs by Laura McPhee
An exhibition of new photographs September 9 - October 29, 2011 Reception: Friday September 9, 5:30 - 7:30 Carroll and Sons 480 Harrison Avenue, Boston 617-482 2477
Mary McCarthy’s The Group, Hilton Als’s “The Women,” and Bridesmaids: My August Column at Bookslut
Mary McCarthy's The Group is a book I've always meant to read but never managed to pick up. McCarthy's name has never quite made it onto the essential American women writers hit list along with, say, Edith Wharton, Flannery O'Connor, Carson McCullers, and Eudora Welty. Perhaps this is because of McCarthy's reputation as "a viperously …
Happy Bastille Day: Get Drunk with Baudelaire
GET DRUNK by Charles Baudelaire, Paris Spleen XXXIII One should always be drunk. That's the great thing; the only question. Not to feel the horrible burden of Time weighing on your shoulders and bowing you to the earth, you should be drunk without respite. Drunk with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as …
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Jenny McPhee 