my goodness how had I not heard of the Catherine Project, how great! Even if not Milton, this'll have many great opportunities! As for teacher PD, well...its the best we can do to have one opportunity per year that involves reading a book or part of a book together, and maybe hope some participate.

I have never done the reading and I hesitate because it’s always struck me that Milton is an author you can’t tackle on your own, even as an adult, to get much out of it you need a class/teacher/guide/group. Any suggestions on how to get past that?

Teaching, nursing are good examples where the gender politics (and other factors too) overcomes the broader market tendency to reward STEM qualifications, since both professions have STEM qualifications (at least for math/sci teachers) but are lower paid and pinker collar than ed levels wld suggest.

oh yeah that's totally true. I think a weaker version of yr original thesis is "we substantially under-reward most professions which require humanities educational achievement as qualifications and reward with vigor professions which require hard STEM educational achievement as qualifications."

We also don't really have a clear metric for Good At Math. What a strong mobile app programmer does, what a good CAD-using architect does, what a geographer does, what a pharma developer does, are such different varieties of activity that I'm not sure it's useful to describe them as 'Good At Math.'

We don't have a clear a set of gradations. I use Excel and could do basic algebra, but my math ed. stopped w low-level calc and statistics, which I don't remember. Am I "bad at math?" Is someone who finished HS English but is all-instagram, never writes more than a formal page/yr now "bad at words"?

I have no complaints about it! But she’s definitely not the norm - prodigy never did break out among young people

Much cannabis policy fixing will also happen on the state, not the federal, level. Structure of retail markets and extent of state control over them, interaction w state criminal law (esp prior convictions) and more will be extremely important to most people's experience of future policy regimes.

In another parallel, both franchises also attempted kid-focused branches (Prodigy and Skeleton Crew) which were generally well liked by the already older fan base but didn't achieve their intended purpose of finding new fans in their tweens, teens, and early twenties.

I think we agree on our analysis? The GOP has been remarkably single-minded and shown great resolution in their desire to destroy the ACA from any angle they can, even if it costs them substantially in terms of public approval or secondary election results.

No Kings - I was there! I admire it! - is a smallish slice of voters even within the statewide primary electorate. The number of people of who will vote in a primary election dwarfs by enormous order, and is more complex by enormous orders, the folks at those protests (good and important though!

A task whose difficulty suggests, to me at least, that even if the left of the party has problems with him, there are much better outlets for reformist energy than trying to take down Warner in a primary.

wait, are you suggesting that primarying Mark Warner, multi-term Senator, former Governor, independently wealthy and a master of the art of campaign fundraising, is an 'easy' person to challenge in a primary? You might think such a thing is good or worthy for your own reasons but it's hardly easy.

Sure, citizens should absolutely speak out to their representatives about what they want them to do, what the right move is - as I have too! But that's a different matter from speaking about it as if we all grasp in a complex ways the political implications might unfold.

This is very, very hard to know without polling. It’s also possible that exiting the shutdown now does so at the moment when public most clearly remembers it in association with the ballroom and other public GOP fecklessness, a permanent mark against them. Near-impossible to know or predict.

To be fair, for Kaine, because of the direct impact on many Virginians with federal-dependent jobs, the pressure to find ways to limit RIF impacts, ensure back paychecks to furloughs, and reopen offices is unusually high - all things this bill for all its other problems does do.