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  • "The best-laid plans of mice and men aft gang agley," as the poet Burns said -- though I can now never hear those words without thinking of Eddie Izzard. (It's #14 if you scroll down the page, where it says "The best la…

  • Here is a warning: this post is about the No Child Left Behind act. If you do not care about NCLB, then skip this post and come back tomorrow. However, if you are a parent or a student or a taxpayer, you ought to know a…

  • The No Child Left Untested Act -- excuse me, No Child Left Behind, or as one teacher/mother/grandmother said, The Our Children Left Out Act -- may be the worst thing that has ever happened to education. Testing has beco…

  • "Arbolist... look up the word. I don't know; maybe I made it up. Anyway, it's an arbo-tree-ist, somebody who knows about trees." -- George Bush, as quoted in USA Today, August 21, 2001. This is a fairly typical quote fro…

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