Sunday, October 26, 2003

Turning to Tutors, Instead of Schools. Parents who want to educate their children at home, but lack the time, skill or inclination to do it themselves, are increasingly replacing school with tutors. By Brigid Mcmenamin. [New York Times: Business] 1:12:56 PM  comment []  Trackback []     GrantsAlert.com Launches National Grantwriters’ Directory:One-Stop Shop Helps Education Groups Match Opportunities, Expertise. GrantsAlert.com (www.GrantsAlert.com), a new online grants information service exclusively for education organizations, now provides a growing roster of the nation’s top grant writers, along with listings of the latest funding opportunities. [PRWEB Oct 26, 2003] [PR Web (The Free Wire Service) Top 30 News Stories] 1:10:54 PM  comment []  Trackback []     Llamas Website Puts Over 100 Pages of Searchable Llama and Alpaca Information Online. Two classic llama books by Rosana Hart now have their full text online for reading, searching, and printing out, at http://www.llamas-information.com. "Living with Llamas: Tales from Juniper Ridge" is the story of one couple's relationship with llamas, and "Llamas for Love and Money" is a comprehensive how-to of llama raising, packing, and related topics. [PRWEB Oct 26, 2003] [PR Web (The Free Wire Service) Top 30 News Stories] 1:10:38 PM  comment []  Trackback []     This conversation tells us something about a political campaign at work, and the role of weblogs in it. Elizabeth Edwards commented here that comments on her husband's campaign blog serve to inform him about people's real concerns. I ask for an example. She replies with a specific example about the Earned Income Tax Credit that led to Edwards refocusing on the issue: "Scott was on top of it and let us know through the blog, and the criticism that John had expressed earlier but that had been dropped from more recent speeches has been reinserted... "John and I actually read the blog. When there is something there he finds useful or intriguing, he picks it up. If more research is needed, it goes to Robert Gordon's policy operation. If not, it can got straight into his speech or his answers to questions." [EdCone.com] 1:10:21 PM  comment []  Trackback []     So we finally got around to watching Bowling for Columbine last night. Yeah, it's a Michael Moore movie alright. He's tendentious and sometimes annoying. But to all the people who try to deny the film's importance by pointing to gaffes like the phony funding-the-Taliban stat Moore uses, I want to say: answer the freaking question Moore asks in the movie. Why do Americans kill each other so damn often with guns? (Full disclosure: I like guns and just signed up to go on the shooting trip with Elijah's Boy Scout troop.) The reaction to the movie reminds me of many of the critiques I read of Paul Krugman, focusing on this thing he got wrong or that rhetorical overkill in which he indulged -- those would-be Fiskings leave me wondering, yeah, OK, you don't like Krugman, you just scored a point  on him...but answer the freaking question he asks over and over again: is the US in serious trouble if we continue with our current economic policies? (Search here for "Columbine" and "Krugman.") Killing the messenger is what people do when they can't handle the message. Sometimes the messenger is obnoxious. But now you've put him in his place, what about the message? [EdCone.com] 1:09:58 PM  comment []  Trackback []     I'm at the Zap Your PRAM conference in Cavendish, PEI. [Scripting News] 1:09:24 PM  comment []  Trackback []

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