by David Safier Two hundred students and a few others showed up at the UA Mall on Tuesday to protest the budget cuts to Arizona universities. Yesterday 950 "students, faculty members, staffers, business leaders and parents" showed up at the Arizona Board of Regents meeting at UA to speak their mind. One of the people who spoke … Read more
by David Safier A first grade teacher from Utah, JC Michaels, just wrote a comment on a six month old post (that's the beauty of the internet, these things hang around forever) about the balance between phonics and whole language instruction. I thought others might be interested. Since I was a high school English teacher, … Read more
by David Safier Here are two bits of information which are encouragingly contrary to what is considered common wisdom. First, with a barely-standing-room-only crowd of something like 2 million people in the Mall during Inauguration, there have been no reports of arrests. I haven't even heard anyone complain about a picked pocket or rowdiness. Run … Read more
by David Safier There could be a crowd. The Board of Regents is meeting Thursday, Jan. 22, at 1pm, Student Union Memorial Center. At 1:20, there will be a Call to the Audience to take testimony from members of the public. This is the beginning of a two day Regents meeting. Note: Parking could be … Read more
by David Safier I received this comment from gaardvark on yesterday's post about the UA protest: The Pres of ASU sent out a letter today to all faculty, staff and students outlining some of the impact on ASU*****On top of these cuts, the Pearce and Kavanagh proposal would require ASU to cut another $70 million, … Read more