Darn you, Ellen. You made me cry. I don’t even know how you managed it, but this evening as I was reading the last 30 or so pages of Hard Love (yes, I’m that far behind on reading YA Lit),…
Author: Traci Gardner
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“It’s the people you are close to, the ones who love you, the ones who have seen your heart, who have touched your soul—to them, it is obvious that something is wrong or missing. Your heart and soul are missing.…
from Prozac Nation by Elizabeth Wurtzel
I guess I wasn’t hopeless enough. I searched around for a movie and found Prozac Nation, which is apparently not considered a great movie. Nonetheless, it’s on TV now. I searched around for something the main character said, and found…
not a day
Who knows if that title will work? Technology is not my friend today, so it probably won’t. I have spent most of the last 10 hours trying to get Quicken Mac to Quicken Windows. Had I known when I started…
silence
Sometimes I seem to go the whole weekend without saying anything out loud. Maybe this is in my head because of Speak, though it’s not that kind of silence. There’s just no one in the house to talk to, and…
renaming, rethinking, and revising
So “Building Comprehension Word-by-Word” became “Focusing Reader Response Through Vocabulary Analysis.” And other than that, there has been no writing. There has been gathering. I needed to get a head start on the Ideas section for next week’s Inbox, so…
School Mistakes Huge Burrito for a Weapon
“The drama ended two hours later when the suspicious item was identified as a 30-inch burrito filled with steak, guacamole, lettuce, salsa and jalapenos and wrapped inside tin foil and a white T-shirt.”
The higher the SAT scores, the more the house is worth | csmonitor.com
But will anyone realize that what this really tells us is how unfair the tests are to the economically-disadvantaged in the society?
Wal-Mart whips student’s parody site, from eSchool News
I’m not quite sure what I think about the situation reported in eSchool News’ article “Wal-Mart whips student’s parody site.” Okay, sure, Wal-Mart sucks with evil unparalleled; but can you just take graphics without changing them and call it parody?…
BBC NEWS | UK | Net-illiterate ‘failing children’
Someone has figured out that “family literacy” actually means all kinds of literacy, not just book-learnin’. Tags: digital divide | literacy | technological literacy | technology