Super-long show this week. Lots of education stuff, and I finally catch up with all the stories people have sent me in the past month. Thanks for listening and for all the feedback! You rock.
Oh, and right after I finished recording, the news broke that the 9-year-old in Scotland was given permission to start up her blog again. Yay!
Top 3 Links of the Week
- Dear America: You should be mad as hell about this (Charts)
- Vouchers and the future of public education
- Why our food is making us fat
Current Events
- Feminist Frequency
- Hitchhiker shot
- Gallup poll: Majority of Chinese prioritize environment over economy
- Suu Kyi urges caution regarding investments in Myanmar
- Mom put angel dust in kid’s food
- Tony Blair accused of war crimes by intruder at Leveson inquiry
- The Ongoing Impact of Kony 2012
Economics
- Great Recession erased nearly 40% of family wealth in US
- Why the US economy can’t get out of first gear
- Wall Street’s woes worsen
- Demanding #QuerellaPaRato
Education
- Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation funds $1.1 million grant for bracelets that measure student engagement
- B&MG Foundation issues update and clarification
- Diane Ravitch on Michelle Rhee
- Panel discussion about black-white achievement gap
- Freakonomics quorum on merit pay for educators
- Why merit pay for teachers sounds good — but isn’t
- The overblown crisis in American education
- 9-year-old blogs about bad food in her school, gets silenced by The Man
Killer Robots, etc
Hip-Hop
Lifesavas: “Hellohihey”
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