Los Angeles Mayor Bloomberg is now adding composting as another key ingredient of his urban-futures program in New York City joining his other major campaigns around smoking in private establishments, too much sugar in sodas, and gun control, and I’m all for it! The case he has laid out is impeccable. There are savings in …
Category: ACORN
School Tracking versus Dynamic Grouping
San Francisco In any discussion of inequality over the last 30 years, “tracking” in public schools, where children are sorted out by initial abilities often determining expectations and future progress, has always been on the short list in any discussion. More recently with the furor over reform, the discussion somewhat receded, but perhaps because other …
Marking Time for O’Keefe, ACORN, and the Crazies of Congress
New Orleans Almost three years since the ACORN board and staff at that time pulled the plug on the organization and spread to the four corners of the country, it was suddenly another “ACORN week” in many ways in some weird coincidence of the calendar. James O’Keefe, III, the criminal videographer who recently had …