Barry’s BlueSky- Untitled May 17, 2024#PoliCartoon: Fat Patients, Fat Patience #FatAcceptance
- Untitled May 17, 2024Thinking of that time that Degas painted the actress Ellen Andree sitting and looking pensive in a cafe, and Monet saw Degas' painting and decided to find the same actress and get her to pose in the same cafe so he could do his own version.
- Untitled May 17, 2024Copyright claims often go too far, crushing free speech and not allowing for the way artists are influenced by, repurpose, and even coincidentally echo, other art. Not this time, though! Jeff Dieschburg is a straight-up tracer who adds NOTHING original when he paints his copies of photos. [contains quote post or other embedded content]
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- Untitled May 17, 2024My niece dyed her hair pink but there are bees here and now they follow her around because they think she's a big flower.
- Untitled May 16, 2024The Existence of Trains Debate #PoliCartoon #Climate #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming
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Category Archives: Education
This Week’s Cartoon: “Edu-Gangsters”
As the daughter of teachers, I find myself more incensed by what’s happening in Wisconsin than I’ve been about anything in a while — and there’s been plenty to get upset about. Last week’s coldhearted maneuver by the Wisconsin GOP was bad enough, and then that vapid, braying dipstick Sarah Palin — the opposite of […] Continue reading
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What Are You Actually Paying For When You Pay For an Education?
So the two separate but related discussion we’ve been having about teacher’s unions and student performance have started me thinking about a question that I wonder about a lot: What is the product that you think you are paying for … Continue reading
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Disturbing Statistics about Remedial Students at Community Colleges
Since I teach at one of the largest community colleges in the nation, I was disturbed but not surprised by the fact that, according to an article in The New York Times, by Lisa W. Foderaro, “CUNY Adjusts Amid Tide … Continue reading
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“Between the 1930s and the year 2000…only 32 novels were translated from Arabic into Hebrew.”
From a post by Olivia Snaije, Arabic and Hebrew: The Politics of Literary Translation, on the blog called Publishing Perspectives, and it is a shameful statistic if I ever saw one, almost as bad as the fact that less than … Continue reading
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Arizona Orders Tucson to End Mexican-American Studies Program – NYTimes.com
As often happens, the Times used different headlines for the print and online versions of this article. The online version reads, “Rift in Arizona as Latino Class Is Found Illegal.” The print version, on the other hand, reads, “Citing ‘Brainwashing,’ Arizona … Continue reading
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Eating Lunch While I Wait for Students and Think about Writing and Character
So it’s a turkey and Muenster cheese sandwich, a half pound of tomato-feta-and-cucumber salad, a brownie for dessert and pecking away a few sentences at a time here while I wait for students from my freshman composition class to come … Continue reading
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Cathleen P. Black Is New Schools Chancellor in New York
From the article on NYTimes.com: “Ms. Black, at the news conference on Tuesday where she was introduced, made no pretense of having any experience in education.” I really do understand the value of having a schools chancellor with a strong … Continue reading
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On Digital Technology and the Generation Gap
So last week I started preparing my freshman composition classes for the documented essay they will have to write. Teaching research and documentation has always been my least favorite part of teaching writing, primarily because I find so much resistance … Continue reading