Tweets of the Week

Wow, offering you the articles I've read online is certainly easier than piling newspapers and magazines on your desk or coffee table (or the rack next to the commode.)
But it isn't quite as cozy as a lovely library setting with peace and quiet, and maybe a park with a rose garden outside. But we'll make due with technology.

This link attempted to measure the most quoted poems by an online use standard. Ha! we all know in spoken language its got to be Shakespeare, "To be or not to be, that is the question," but I guess people don't google Hamlet because they don't need to--they've got it already.


http://blog.inkyfool.com/2012/01/fifty-most-quoted-lines-of-poetry.html

Article about redefining autism, that may result in redefining services.

http://news.yahoo.com/advocates-redefining-autism-may-result-loss-essential-services-173300544.html

This is a story here in SoCal about parent education. Excellent.

http://www.sbsun.com/rss/ci_19786981?source=rss#.TxqZQnFRG2Y.facebook

How to evaluate teachers? What a quandary. Some smartie pants with a Phd should surely be able to develop some equitable criteria.

 http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/16/education/study-on-teacher-value-uses-data-from-before-teach-to-test-era.html?_r=1 

New leader for young readers chooses 'Reading Is Not Optional' as slogan. Oh yeah!

http://www.educationnews.org/k-12-schools/national-ambassador-for-young-people%E2%80%99s-literature-named/

Its a mystery wrapped in an enigma: really? You can't spot a bad teacher?

http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2012/01/16/can-a-few-years-data-reveal-bad-teachers

Just threw this last one in because its cool and a little weird at the same time. I have always liked the ferret girl the best.