- me: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/11/garden/11tiny.html
- steve: someday, baby
- me: but if we lived a sustainable lifestyle i couldn't buy boots
- steve: i'd build a closet for you
- steve: as big as the house
NYT
When you know he's the one
Tuition, tithe, same difference
Alex Tehrani for the NYT
"In the end, the kind of [education] policies that Obama is proposing will require an even broader cultural change — not just in the way poor Americans think about education but also in the way middle-class Americans think about poverty."
-Paul Tough, "24/7 School Reform", New York Times Magazine, Sept. 7, 2008
My folks baptized and raised me in the Holy Church of Education, which meant my childhood and young adulthood were spent focusing every iota of my attention on either school or respectable extracurricular activities so that I could weasel my way into Heaven, i.e., the Best College You Can Get Into.* I think this is why I find articles on education reform so interesting: the scenarios described are immeasurably far from my own.
It doesn't hurt that the magazine's class/education coverage has been top-notch recently - Tough's The Post-Katrina Clasroom: A Teachable Moment and The Next Kind of Integration by Emily Bazelon were both compelling and well-constructed.**
*Whether I found salvation is still a toss-up.
**But in general I've found the quality of the magazine to be inconsistent in the past few months; its seven- and eight-page-long trend pieces or personal essays (specifically the sad young literary sideshow Emily Gould) come to mind. Its hits almost make up for the misses (Is Obama The End Of Black Politics was fantastic), but I'm hoping the upcoming election will steady its pen.
The devil you know.