tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post4822588866929926441..comments2024-03-18T23:02:16.395-04:00Comments on the daily howler: It’s another form of brotherly love!<b>bob somerby</b>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02963464534685954436noreply@blogger.comBlogger16125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-5249201314786720312014-01-27T03:20:34.551-05:002014-01-27T03:20:34.551-05:00Anonymous @5:08,
Suffice for what?
And we're...Anonymous @5:08,<br /><br />Suffice for what?<br /><br />And we're not on a first syllable basis.deadratnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-57304782563850095162014-01-25T17:08:26.333-05:002014-01-25T17:08:26.333-05:00Dead, Dead,
A Stanford doctorate suffice, fool? ...Dead, Dead,<br /><br />A Stanford doctorate suffice, fool? Me, I do not know what that grammar stuff means and I do not care a fig.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-19126317983167001082014-01-25T16:29:24.011-05:002014-01-25T16:29:24.011-05:00You often say even Somerby wouldn't read stupi...You often say even Somerby wouldn't read stupid comments on his own blog. Why do you think someone saying something positive to reinforce Somerby would come back in the middle of the night the night or even the next day looking for a response? Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-83621865856984983752014-01-25T12:34:35.572-05:002014-01-25T12:34:35.572-05:00You could do it even if he did tell you not to do ...You could do it even if he did tell you not to do it, and without violating any law or principle.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-33741302555384556012014-01-25T12:05:54.538-05:002014-01-25T12:05:54.538-05:00deadrat:
[crickets]deadrat:<br /><br />[crickets]Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-69708584736787820962014-01-25T00:48:25.525-05:002014-01-25T00:48:25.525-05:00Did you teach how to avoid dangling participles an...Did you teach how to avoid dangling participles and punctuate nonrestrictive relative clauses?deadratnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-20248672555563235422014-01-25T00:00:13.343-05:002014-01-25T00:00:13.343-05:00off topic,
i want to update a previous off topic ...off topic,<br /><br />i want to update a previous off topic comment in which i recalled inferring, from his subordinates interviews, that nbc universal head, steve burke, was particularly upset at msnbc head, phil griffin, for saying saying something to the effect that we dont do breaking news:<br /><br />http://www.buzzfeed.com/dorsey/bieber-coverage-proves-that-msnbc-is-back-in-the-breaking-ne<br /><br /><br />"Bieber Coverage Proves That MSNBC Is Back In The Breaking News Business"<br />"The cable network’s overlords at NBC News seem to be winning the war over programming."<br /><br />"As recently as June 2013, MSNBC President Phil Griffin famously said that his network was “not the place” for breaking news. The pushback from NBCUniversal News Group Chair Patricia Fili-Krushel seems to have worked.<br />A perfect example of MSNBC’s dedication to the Bieber story happened when NBC News veteran Andrea Mitchell, who also anchors the 1 p.m. hour at the network, was forced to interrupt a conversation with former Congresswoman Jane Harmon about National Security Agency spying to inform her viewers that Justin Bieber was about to go before a judge."<br /><br /><br />>>> i wonder if burke intended for the breaking news to be so indiscriminate as to highlight the goings-on of a teen-idol who i believe would not be of interest to the msnbc demographics.e. ray shurenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-715574037830034162014-01-24T23:40:59.881-05:002014-01-24T23:40:59.881-05:00mass changing of students answers on tests reminds...mass changing of students answers on tests reminds me that its potentially more important who counts election votes than who casts them. which reminds me that there is more than one kind of test manipulation.<br /><br />in high school freshman year, we had to take a test to determine which of three levels we would be in: remedial, intermediate or advanced. each level would be completely segregated from the others. i happened to sit next to a kid who finished the test in about 1% the time it took me. tdh comment readers might ask whats so odd about that based on what i say here, but ill tell you why it was noteworthy. he just drew a line straight line down the test sheets, hitting all the a's. obviously thats one way to get a lousy score. he apparently wanted to be in the least difficult of the three sections.<br /><br />ive read on this blog, i believe, that sats and acts are not very predictive of collegiate academic success as compared to grade point averages. ill bet that wasnt true of my school. i wonder how many other high schools similarly segregate students. e. ray shurenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-10985770649618680132014-01-24T21:56:09.207-05:002014-01-24T21:56:09.207-05:00Who the Sam Hill is Motoko Rich? Rich had no backg...Who the Sam Hill is Motoko Rich? Rich had no background in education. But she did have passion! And no poor fool can outwit Rich. Unless that poor fool is Michelle Rhee....For reasons which are blindingly obvious, we would say that this is the work of functional illiterates....But along with their fake presentations, consider the hapless work of Motoko Rich in this news report from yesterday's New York Times. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-24571167626754093092014-01-24T21:00:06.168-05:002014-01-24T21:00:06.168-05:00But because you did not explicitly tell me not to ...But because you did not explicitly tell me not to do it, that means I can do it. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-61448066341322159332014-01-24T20:52:49.568-05:002014-01-24T20:52:49.568-05:00Cheating has been going on big-time for quite a wh...Cheating has been going on big-time for quite a while. The experts know because they offer detection services, but haven't said anything.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-18566087479445059742014-01-24T20:07:24.602-05:002014-01-24T20:07:24.602-05:00We don't need you to do that.We don't need you to do that.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-83414920404981819292014-01-24T20:04:49.049-05:002014-01-24T20:04:49.049-05:00What was the last thing the expert said? Did I mi...What was the last thing the expert said? Did I miss it?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-84305172548923511972014-01-24T18:28:44.266-05:002014-01-24T18:28:44.266-05:00By the way, I transferred districts to get away fr...By the way, I transferred districts to get away from the situation which I found scary.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-45516430800065574712014-01-24T18:25:55.039-05:002014-01-24T18:25:55.039-05:00Teaching at a junior and senior high school in Los...Teaching at a junior and senior high school in Los Angeles in the early 1980s, there was significant cheating on standardized tests in each of the schools. The cheating in those instances was at the level of department heads.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8611810694571930415.post-34529254080532709822014-01-24T17:32:01.816-05:002014-01-24T17:32:01.816-05:00Ah, but could those erasures have been part of a w...Ah, but could those erasures have been part of a well-intentioned study to see the effect on student self-esteem from raised test scores? A study that simply went wrong, despite the good intentions of all invovled?<br /><br />We don't know. It hasn't been disproven yet.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com