Andrew Sullivan's Blog, page 2820
June 24, 2010
Charter Schools: A Copper Bullet?
A new report on KIPP charter schools is encouraging. Drum calls KIPP is a "limited success":
KIPP schools demand a lot of their teachers, who work very long hours
and are required to be on call at all times. They pay a bit more for
this, but only a bit, and this isn't a model that scales well. You can
always find a small cadre of dedicated young teachers willing to put up
with this, but you're never going to find the hundreds of thousands
you'd need to make this work on a large scale.
Yglesias ...
Face Of The Day
Nicolas Mahut of France after losing on the third day of his first
round match against John Isner of USA (R) on Day Four of the Wimbledon Lawn Tennis Championships at the
All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club on June 24, 2010 in London,
England. The match is the longest in Grand Slam history. By
Hamish Blair/Getty Images.
Tennis - All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club - Grand Slam - London - John Isner
Finally
The only right response:
Police raided the home and office of the recently retired archbishop of Belgium on Thursday, carrying off documents and a personal computer as part of an investigation into the sexual abuse of children by Roman Catholic priests, officials said.Police and prosecutors would not say whether former Archbishop Godfried Danneels was suspected of abuse himself or simply had records pertaining to allegations against another person.The raids followed recent statements to...
The Bigger Party, The Bigger Tent
Eli Lehrer imagines that the Democrats may do better than expected in November.
Jonah Lehrer - Politics - United States - Parties - Connecticut
North Korea's World Cup, Ctd
A reader writes:
The blogger you linked to missed the more noteworthy story, which is that all of North Korea actually watched the match you mentioned live on television. This unprecedented event was likely inspired by the team's fairly good performance against Brazil in the previous game, which they only lost by one goal - a "victory" for them in the same way that a tie against the UK was a victory for the US team.
This is actually quite an amazing story. For a nation that is used to having...
Palin Endorsement, Kiss Of Death
Bristol Palin - Greg Sargent - Sarah Palin - Secret Life of the American Teenager - Palin
The Punking Of Guidos
The best media joke in quite a while:
Watching straight guys adopt the steroid look perfected by gays in the early 2000s is one of life's guiltier pleasures.
United States - Government - Business - Bank of England - Goldman Sachs
Australia's Hillary?
Nancy Lorenz, a "queer, tree-hugging feminist," translates the Gillard news for a non-Aussie audience. Warren McLaren worries about the implications for climate change.
mclarenvale - Climate change - Environment - Warren McLaren - Australia
Obama: Hostage To Petraeus, Ctd
Was I too harsh? It behooves me, I think, to note that the way in which Obama facilitated this military dispatch was pitch-prefect: classy, presidential, resolute. It also behooves me to note that many things can happen in war and politics and that if Petraeus is seen to manifestly fail in Afghanistan - and retrospectively to have failed to leave Iraq in one piece as well - then things might shift dramatically. One reader offers this meep-meep hypothesis:
Maybe the McChrystal fiasco was a...
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