From the monthly archives:
In my year of teaching in one of the lowest performing school districts in the country, I learned an astonishing truth: the poorest kids in the worst schools in the country (if you allow me to generalize from my limited experience) are basically just as capable as the kids who went to my high school, one of the richest private schools in the country (graphic).
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Hilzoy dissects the meaning behind the words in Rev. Jeremiah Wright’s recent speech before the NAACP.
I didn’t see the speech, though I think I saw some highlights from it on CNN yesterday. But I do trust hilzoy and her reasoning in the post seems sound enough.
I still wish he would stay out of site just for [...]
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I love the incorporation of The Golden Ratio.
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This novel was published after the Chilean-Mexican author's death, and I'm not even sure if it was entirely finished or not. It is broken up into five parts which, while connected, stand pretty much on there own. I have not yet made it to the grim part about the murders of hundreds of women in Mexico, so I have so far found it enjoyable and even funny despite some dark underpinnings. It's had a ton of critical praise, and I like it much more than my last foray into the violent novel genre: Blood Meridian.
Been listening to this one a lot, pretty much the whole way through.