I Speak of Dreams

Author of Essay in Standardized Test Can't Answer The Questions

Naomi Shihab Nye is an essayist and poet.  Her works have appeared in textbooks, and this year, on the Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills (TAKS).   

"Out of five questions the kids were supposed to answer, I couldn't answer three," she said.

Is This a School or a Basketball Factory?

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Early Signs of Autism: Remarkable Journal

Jay Ingram reports on a mother who journaled her twin babies' every development. The girl is neurotypical,  the boy is autistic.  With hindsight, developmental delays began appearing at six months of age, accelerating thereafter.

Sharon Kirkey has another, longer, more detailed article.

Sound the Drum

Perversely, I’m glad that four articulate and well-connected [-------] are being prosecuted for doing their moral duty. It seems to me that every time we accept a narrowing of human rights as a trade-off for better security, we do so on the unspoken assumption that the person suffering will never be ‘one of us’.

Read the rest.  Remember, every time you look away when someone's rights are violated.....yours become less secure.

This is not a blanket endorsement of open borders.  I stand with Victor David Hanson on this issue. 

FINALLY!

There are a welter of city and county jurisdictions covering development in the Wood River Valley (Blaine County) -- and there's finally movement toward rationalization.

Questions

Dick Jones was befuddled by the dangers of rubber bands,  but poses even more confounding questions, go give 'em a whack.

• Light travels faster than sound: Is that why some people appear bright until you hear them speak?
• Whose cruel idea was it for the word "lisp" to have an "s" in it?

Caveman Chemistry

Every year or so, I teach a seminar to middle school girls called "Candy Science" -- we explore the world through the medium of food.  It is a blast, but chemistry is my weakest subject.  Caveman Chemistry to the rescue! 

A Quarter of EMS Calls are Alcohol-related at Brown

EMS at Brown is a student-run service.

Rubber Bands as Weapons

Robert Gomez took a rubber band off his wrist, and was expelled from school.

Baldy 101

A verbal picture of  the Sun Valley ski terrain