I believe that not only cursive writing, but cursive writing with a pencil on scratchy low-quality paper helped kids learn to read and spell. That muscle effort plus the slow painstaking creation of each letter while saying the sound of the letter in your head or outloud—and then blending it into the next connected letter—how could this not be helpful?
Yet another example of the kind of coverage that is so distractingly wrong that it makes it hard to focus on the supposed bigger issue. I continue to be mystified by editors who feel they need to do stuff like this
“Dear Members of the Pulitzer Prize board,
My name is Emily Damari. I was held hostage in Gaza for over 500 days.
On the morning of October 7, I was at home in my small studio apartment in Kibbutz Kfar Aza when Hamas terrorists burst in, shot me and dragged me across the border into Gaza. I was one of 251 men, women, children, and elderl…
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This made me emotional and simultaneously angry that even when we are slaughtered we have to share our story in detail to get sympathy, it’s so backwards
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Bravo, TC. I’m gonna need to read this a few more times, quite possibly with a spreadsheet to track all the moving parts.
One opinion I hold: it seems to me that so many of the people you so eloquently describe are rebels searching for a rebellion. I think that students become enamored with the “glory” of protests and don’t stop to think critically about what is actually going on.
My very pedestrian assessment:
On October 7th, Hamas did a bad thing. Israel was warned about the “bad thing” and igno…
I remember reading that one of the student leaders at Berkeley in the '60s went into a funk when the University met all his demands. It put him out of a job.
I'm laughing. Sheesh! I'm glad I got to Berkeley after the performative protests were over--nothing to distract me from my very interesting classes.
The very interesting classes are what made it worthwhile.
That, and I made several long-term friends who I've been very happy to know these past 50 years. One of those classes--I got grounded in environmental science by John Holdren, who later became Pres O's Science Advisor. Very important stuff I learned, including about global warming, back in the winter or spring quarter of 1975.
I recently was looking over a long project paper I'd done in a class given by Arlie Hochschild, and I was very impressed with what I'd written. Another terrific and inspiring teacher--who I think is still teaching, although she's probably pushing 80. I saw her give a book talk five years ago, and talked to her after. I had some great teachers!
