Steve Ersinghaus

Mary Kate Hurley at In the Middle has an interesting post on history and the latest narrative jump in Heroes (links in original):
Hiro seems to be playing a role that’s difficult to imagine. Hiro’s influence in the past — pointing Takezo Kensei toward his “destiny”, hoping to restore a timeline somehow made different by his [...]

About college growth:
But few states have experienced student growth as rapid as Arizona’s. In 1990, about 31,000 students graduated from the state’s public high schools. By 2005, there were nearly 52,000 graduates. This growth is expected to continue, even if the local high schools do nothing to solve their dropout problems.
Although there are two other [...]

Wally Rorschach tells me that, proportionally, what we do to ourselves probably wont matter all that much. Some celestial tourcraft will come by and mention that cinder smoking at the corner of the window. “That’s where life struggled to get going over a billion years ago and a few billion years after that bickered itself [...]

Someone has stolen Jeffrey Cohen’s computer.
To the thief: You should return this computer. It’ll never be yours. Nothing good will come of it for you.

Yo-Yo Ma was amazing last night at the Bushnell. His performance and that of the crew was a lesson in intensity and collaboration.
Up was Dvořák’s Cello Concerto in B minor. Ma was typically intense. He’d sway right and left, leaning toward the first violin and others around the front and second circle, talking [...]

This guy’s speech is just insane. No link.
The guy after him ain’t much better. No link.

This is wonderful stuff. Susan Gibb on the dangers of do-it-yourself:
The grapes are in full galloping fermentation and while I’ve been elbow deep in it popping the grapes to get that done quickly, it keeps threatening to overflow its container and I’m afraid that it just might tonight. At midnight. Seep over [...]

Susan Gibb sure makes a delightful crabapple jelly. Thanks so much.

Milan Kundera was correct in claiming that we should attempt to understand first before we judge. It’s a hard stricture.
Avery Doninger’s blog post accusing Burlington school officials of being, I believe, “douchebags” (in the original post the student wrote “douchbag”) falls into the above category and is yet another example of a wasted effort by [...]

Dean Baker provides, briefly, context.

One of the joys of the 06 summer came with working with students from Farmington in a collaboration between Tunxis Community College and what we called The China Institute. John Timmons and I, along with Ren Tong, provided opportunities in digital storytelling and Mandarin Chinese study for the students, who generated wonderful work in [...]

My wife sends this to me from the NYT. Here’s a snip (login may be required):
Some public university officials say they worry that students who are charged more for their major will stick to the courses in their field to feel that they are getting their money’s worth.
“I want students in the College of [...]

We can continue the grade talk here.
Context post. I’d like to get as much on this as possible for my own reflection.

Something to watch. ccLearn.

Mary Ellen sends me this article on a grade scam.
Better just to work a tad bit harder on earning the things. Then again, why not just do away with grades all together?