An ode to old textbooks. The fight in Oklahoma over education funding and teacher pay has found a strange new pawn: A student discovered that one of her textbooks was once used by singer Blake Shelton … in 1982. Which makes the textbook extremely old.
The book in question here is “Look Away (Keys to Reading)” by Louise Matteoni. When I was a kid, the Catholic school I attended had old and ratty textbook hand-me-downs from well-funded local public school district. My civics textbook in sixth grade referred to the Kennedy presidency as a recent event. The angry mother reports the book “is very educational and still in good shape.” What’s the problem, then?
What is it like to prep for a congressional hearing? Notoriously cold Mark Zuckerberg reportedly underwent “murder boards” to prep for his dual hearings on Capitol Hill, but what is the other side of things like? VICE takes you behind the scenes in this five-minute video. It’s a good look behind the scenes and brought back painful memories of the many tax reform hearings I sat through in 2011.
Sally Kohn’s new book and the facts. An interesting thread from writer and media personality Aminatou Sow about Sally Kohn’s new book called The Opposite of Hate. Sow claims she is misquoted in the book and is not happy about it. Kohn’s publisher has agreed to remove Sow’s quote from the digital edition.
Title IX Forever? What happens when you leave college? When does Title IX no longer apply? That is what one Stanford grad is testing, pressuring the school to open a Title IX inquiry to an alleged rape she claims happened eight years ago. Stanford has pushed back on her request. As Reason’s Robby Soave observes:
Mick Mulvaney savages Congress: News Hour’s Courtney Norris reports Mulvaney, who counts leading the Consumer Finance Protection Bureau as one of a handful of jobs in the Trump administration, as saying to a Senate panel: “while I have to be here by statute I don’t think I have to answer your questions if you take a look at actual statute that requires me to be here.” Mulvaney, of course, is trolling Senator Elizabeth Warren, creator of the CFPB, who insisted that it not be held accountable to Congress.
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