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 …
Category: ACORN
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 …
The Amazing Peace of the Copan Ruins
San Pedro Sula We had finished five days of non-stop meetings and waved goodbye to the organizers from ACORN Canada and took a chance of a field trip to see the Copan ruins some three hours away from the city. I had wanted to go since reading a book by John Stephens 40 years ago …