if only this were true.

sick.

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theatlantic: The Writing Revolution For years, nothing seemed capable of turning around New Dorp High School’s dismal performance—not firing bad teachers, not flashy education technology, not after-school programs. So, faced with closure, the school’s principal went all-in on a very specific curriculum reform, placing an overwhelming focus on teaching the basics of analytic writing, every day, in virtually every class. What followed was an extraordinary blossoming of student potential, across nearly every subject—one that has made New Dorp a model for educational reform. Read more. [Image: Kyoto Hamada]

theatlantic:

The Writing Revolution

For years, nothing seemed capable of turning around New Dorp High School’s dismal performance—not firing bad teachers, not flashy education technology, not after-school programs. So, faced with closure, the school’s principal went all-in on a very specific curriculum reform, placing an overwhelming focus on teaching the basics of analytic writing, every day, in virtually every class. What followed was an extraordinary blossoming of student potential, across nearly every subject—one that has made New Dorp a model for educational reform.

Read more. [Image: Kyoto Hamada]

natureconservancy: “Doing what you like is freedom. Liking what you do is happiness.” untitled by Randy P. Martin on Flickr.

natureconservancy:

“Doing what you like is freedom. Liking what you do is happiness.”

untitled by Randy P. Martin on Flickr.

seka-seka

the other three parts are also on youtube.  Such a terrifying, moving piece of work.

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James Baldwin clip.

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Introduced by Peter Donaldson and Recorded by Joe and Alan Harfield, Unity Recording Studio, Auldearn

‘I have written a blasphemous book’, said Melville when his novel was first published in 1851, ‘and I feel as spotless as the lamb’. Deeply subversive, in almost every way imaginable, Moby-Dick is a virtual, alternative bible - and as such, ripe for reinterpretation in this new world of new media. Out of Dominion was born its bastard child - or perhaps its immaculate conception - the Moby-Dick Big Read: an online version of Melville’s magisterial tome: each of its 135 chapters read out aloud, by a mixture of the celebrated and the unknown, to be broadcast online, one new chapter each day, in a sequence of 135 downloads, publicly and freely accessible.

Starting 16 September 2012!

For more info please go to: www.mobydickbigread.com

SoundCloud / The Moby-Dick Big Read