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Micah Sittig
Shanghai, China
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Micah commented on the article |
Seconding Eggers.
Also, recommending that she choose a celebrated author *that is still alive*, which increases chances of getting to see that person live, having a chance to communicate with them IRL or through e-mail or on their weblog, knowing them before they are mythologized, looking forward to their future works, and seeing their writings from a historical context that you've lived through yourself. Many of the authors mentioned in previous comments fit this condition. -
Micah commented on the article |Great set of links! This takes care of my bedtime reading for a couple nights.
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Micah commented on the article |From NYTimes.com: "As Layoffs Surge, Women May Pass Men in Job Force"
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/06/business/06women.html
"Women tend to be employed in areas like education and health care, which are less sensitive to economic ups and downs, and in jobs that allow more time for child care and other domestic work. " (my emphasis)
Economic stimulus money should be going to areas of the economy more impacted by the credit crunch. It is riders like these education items that give education policy a bad name. Like George Hanson said above, the Head Start/NCLB/etc money should be "more honestly served as a separate issue". -
Micah commented on the article |
How much of the money cut was true economic stimulus, and how much was just pork?
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