I am wearing black slacks and an oxford, an outfit too hot for the July heat but the only clothes I have with me in D.C. I am waiting outside the Holocaust Museum even though I arrived an hour before they open, eighty tourists line up before me. But the book I’m reading occupies me. [...]

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Mastodon’s Crack the Skye The last day of my junior year in college began uniquely: my suitemate Jeremy, mid-packing session, stopped his preparations to leave long enough to burst into my room and wake me up to tell me this: “Dude, I’ve listened to Crack the Skye like ninety five times this quarter. That’s over [...]

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Via the New Yorker, via the New York Times: a charter school in Washington Heights is planning an experiment: Do a national search for the eight best, most effective teachers, and pay them each $125,000 annually, mix with 120 fifth graders, who according to the article, are mostly neighborhood kids, low-income Hispanics, and underperforming students. [...]

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