Web Browsing- Hoover Institution - Education Next - Work Hard. Be Nice. 20 March 2009A fascinating article/book excerpt about developing a successful educational model from the top down. The classroom management episode at the end of the article sounds like a stroke of brilliance. […]
- Duke Coach to Obama: Worry About the Economy, Not NCAA Picks ... 19 March 2009Cracks me up. The story suggests that Krzyzewski objects because Obama picked Duke's rival to win it all. Even so, he has a point... […]
- The No-Stats All-Star - NYTimes.com 5 March 2009One of my favorite college basketball players ever gets a great write up in the NY Times magazine. The story about unappreciated genius combined with bizarrely sophisticated statistical assessments makes it even better. Are superstars the best sports figures out there? Or can an seemingly ordinary person make a team that much better just by his presence. Sha […]
- The New Majority | Building a conservatism that can win again 11 February 2009Allen Guelzo suggests that until conservatives can regain their voice on campus, media and politics will probably continue to lean left. The conserving power of a tenured faculty ensures that liberalism will keep a quietly dominate influence in the culture, regardless of the current political modd of the country. […]
- Hoover Institution - Education Next - Work Hard. Be Nice. 20 March 2009
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Just for the record, I am not a baritone
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In case anyone was confused, I am not singing in the opera at BJU this week.
If you google my name, my site (this one) is the second link. In a wonderful twist of irony, the guy whose site is first is singing one of the lead roles in BJU’s production. I’ve actually known that he was going to be doing it for a while. One of the times that I googled my own name, I clicked on his performance schedule and saw that he would be at BJU for this year’s Barber of Seville production. Alas, it will be the first (or nearly the first–I’ve forgotten for sure) BJU opera that I haven’t attended in a very long time. Someone get his autograph for me. :-p