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Rachel's Rants, Raves, and Recollections: January 13, 1982

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Rachel's Rants, Raves, and Recollections. Friday, January 13, 2012. January 13, 1982. January 13, 1982. The girl putters about. Outside, aimless,. Studying the blanketed landscape. Of sidewalks, trees, shrubbery, houses, power lines. The remnants of ambition: a 1950’s storybook snowman. Are abandoned, unrecognizable,. Subsequent snow angels are strewn about. On slates, left unpunctured. Perhaps she’ll amble half a block down. To the flat white expanse of the schoolyard. Cold starts to burn. Totally remem...

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Rachel's Rants, Raves, and Recollections: November 2010

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Rachel's Rants, Raves, and Recollections. Friday, November 19, 2010. On False Equivalencies, Dichotomies, and Golden Ages in the Media. Still taking a much needed break from the behemoth in the room that is corporate influence. . . When I first heard about plans for The Rally for Sanity and/or Fear, it kind of annoyed me. What's it about? What's Jon Stewart trying to do? Do we really need another rally? Mobilizing thousands of people- for what? But there is an authoritative dignity in how he metes out cr...

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Rachel's Rants, Raves, and Recollections: Eric Cantor is a Threat to Democracy

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Rachel's Rants, Raves, and Recollections. Friday, October 29, 2010. Eric Cantor is a Threat to Democracy. On Monday, October 25th, a Louisa County, Virginia, voter and Democrat named Jon Taylor showed up with some members of his family to a local Louisa coffee shop, Solid Grounds, to attend an Eric Cantor campaign event (see event invite below). Eric Cantor is his congressional representative (VA-07) and he and some friends of his had RSVPed for the event. On the blog Blue Virginia. Also on Blue Virginia.

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light blog: July 2012

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Monday, July 30, 2012. So You Think You Can Be an Entrepreneur? A couple of months ago, there was a twitter exchange between Diane Ravitch and Secretary of Education Arne Duncan's press secretary Justin Hamilton about entrepreneurship. Ravitch blogged about it here. And there was an especially good summary of it on an Ed Week. My own tweet was:. I think you mean public intellectual- remember those? Entrepreneur is something different. 8212; Rachel Levy(@RachelAnneLevy) May 19, 2012. However, I mostly fin...

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Rachel's Rants, Raves, and Recollections: A follow-up to my most recent post

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Rachel's Rants, Raves, and Recollections. Thursday, June 4, 2009. A follow-up to my most recent post. One of the elements of Obama's education policy that I took issue with in my most recent blog post was tying teacher pay to student performance on standardized tests. I still think this is a bad idea! In that post, I cited University of Virginia cognitive psychologist Dan Willingham's video about the. Teaching of reading skills at the expense of content area-studies. Posted by Rachel Levy. Miller-McCune&...

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Rachel's Rants, Raves, and Recollections: January 2012

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Rachel's Rants, Raves, and Recollections. Friday, January 13, 2012. January 13, 1982. January 13, 1982. The girl putters about. Outside, aimless,. Studying the blanketed landscape. Of sidewalks, trees, shrubbery, houses, power lines. The remnants of ambition: a 1950’s storybook snowman. Are abandoned, unrecognizable,. Subsequent snow angels are strewn about. On slates, left unpunctured. Perhaps she’ll amble half a block down. To the flat white expanse of the schoolyard. Cold starts to burn. It's not the ...

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Rachel's Rants, Raves, and Recollections: Inaugural Memory

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Rachel's Rants, Raves, and Recollections. Saturday, January 17, 2009. This piece is dedicated to my parents, especially to my Dad, who worked tirelessly to help turn Virginia blue during the recent election. Found alongside the feature, "Money Doesn't Grow on Trees, So You Better Start Saving for College Now.". Photo by flickr user Travlr). Posted by Rachel Levy. Wow, I am very impressed. This was a great piece. January 20, 2009 at 10:42 PM. January 26, 2009 at 6:56 PM. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).

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So Educated: ABOUT US

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So Educated was founded with a simple belief: We must empower every voice yearning to be heard in the debate on education reform, because no one can afford to sit in silence. If you believe, as we do, that “Education is a gift and a responsibility,” then we must all be responsible with the gift we've been given. John S. Wilson. John [at] soeducated [dot] com. John's Articles on So Educated. John is wholeheartedly determined to contribute to the rapidly changing dialogue in the health care and education c...