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 Corporate-politico school reform is worse than stealing ice cream from children.

The May 11, 2009 New Yorker offers a profile of Green Dot founder Steve Barr by Douglas McGray. The technical aspects of accessing this article turn out to be of some import. New Yorker subscribers could obtain a digital version a few days before the magazine arrived in the mail, but this version had no cut-and-paste function, so to get parts up on my website I had to retype. Later, I discovered one can see the article online for free--and with cut-and-paste available--by going to the New American Foundation:

I have run a website in opposition to the federal legislation No Child Left Behind (NCLB) since it was signed into law in 2002. . A number of national education reporters subscribe to the e-mail list attached to the site. The site gets about 100,000 hits a month and provokes a lot of e-mail.

 www.susanohanian.org

 Charlotte Dennett believes that the State Attorney General should be at the forefront of finding a way to bring the person responsible for the deaths of young Vermonters, George Bush, to justice. The law to do this is clearly laid out in Vincent Bugliosi's book, The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder.

In "Get read, get set, start kindergarten," a San Francisco Chronicle reporter quotes educators bemoaning the fact that half of San Francisco kindergartners aren't ready for the rigors of school. Rigor is their word, definitely not mine.

 This review appeared in From the Board Room, June 2008, a publication of the Vermont School Boards Association.

An update on an old poem, with apologies to W. H. Auden.

(To JS/07/M/378 In place of a marble mounument, this data is warehoused at the
Business Roundtable and at NEA Headquarters)

She was found by the U. S. Department of Education to be

One against whom there was no official debit side,

And all the reports on her conduct agree

That, in the modern sense of an old-fashioned word, she was highly qualified,

A longtime educator in Oregon suggested that I mail my book When
Childhood Collides with NCLB to every member of the House and Senate
education committees--and offered $100 to start a fund to pay the costs of
doing this.

I've listed committee members below.