http://www.memphisflyer.com/blogs/InTheBluff/ Comments On: In the Bluff en-us Copyright 2009 Memphis Flyer. All rights reserved. This RSS file is offered to individuals, Memphis Flyer readers, and non-commercial organizations only. Any commercial websites wishing to use this RSS file, please contact Memphis Flyer. wil@desert.net (Memphis Flyer Webmaster) Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:01 -0600 Sat, 21 Nov 2009 01:15:00 -0600 Foundation http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Posted by mad_merc]]> Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:38:07 -0600 Memphis Flyer Posted by urbanut]]> Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:11:54 -0600 Memphis Flyer
Fairgrounds redevelopment estimate: $175 million

And out of $260 million, nobody can strike a deal to keep the Pippin & Carousel in the center of it all? Insane.
Posted by denise parkinson]]> Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:23:18 -0600 Memphis Flyer
Or, he will use some of it to help his crack head son who was arrested for selling drugs at a school he worked in. (The story can be found on the net).

He is the worst superintendent this city has ever had. He does not care for the students, teachers or community. He still has Florida tags on his car. (Doesn’t plan to stay long).

Posted by azildjianman]]> Fri, 20 Nov 2009 09:17:55 -0600 Memphis Flyer
Because 'notice and comment' (post a notice, accept coments, and go with the done deal anyway) rule making allegedly goes over better than reading decrees from the balcony of the palace.
Posted by Powergamz]]> Thu, 19 Nov 2009 18:03:35 -0600 Memphis Flyer
And this is the same Overton Squere where people let a nice local health food place go under for lack of support.

And not only Austin, but Cary Street in Richmond, 4th Avenue in Tuscson, Ghent in Norfolk, and a dozen others like them have done well staying local...... Wonder what they know that Memphis planners don't?


Posted by Powergamz]]> Thu, 19 Nov 2009 18:01:16 -0600 Memphis Flyer
Austin, TX has a thriving local business community because the city has had the good sense to give local businesses priority over national ones and because communities have chosen to support them instead of seeking other options. Why can't we have the same in Memphis?
Posted by melanie]]> Thu, 19 Nov 2009 17:35:02 -0600 Memphis Flyer Posted by MRDC]]> Thu, 19 Nov 2009 17:10:45 -0600 Memphis Flyer
If you take your best teachers and put them in the worst schools and worst classes, you'll end up driving most of them away. I see this in the business world all the time. Those who work hardest are given the most to do and carry the dead weight of dozens of others, until they finally burn out and quit, leaving the organization top-heavy with mediocre slackers whose primary talent is playing the system.

I think a good investment of this money would be to create a teacher training program to take people with a high school diploma, but who might otherwise not have a degree, people who can pass a battery of social, intellectual and psychological tests, and train them up with real world, real classroom experience to become loyal, dedicated teachers. Pay them while you train them, so they can support themselves while they learn, and you will have no shortage of hardworking people who otherwise could never manage the expense of the required four-year degree.

How many people spend 4 years to get their degree and their teaching certificate only to burn out in the first year because they haven't been properly prepared for the realities of the urban classroom? How many children lose an entire year because they are unfortunate enough to draw a teacher who is neither prepared nor motivated to meet the extraordinary demands of teaching? You take a kid in her first years of school, all it takes is one bad teacher, one lost year, to put her permanently behind, especially if she is passed on to the next grade without having learned what she needed to know in the previous grade.

Our teacher training system itself is broken. Teacher training should be done by the schools in a paid internship program. They should mix actual teaching experience with educational courses for as long as it takes to prepare that teacher to take over a classroom, whether that takes one year or six years. The current system serves one function and one function only - to deliver a steady supply of students and their tuitions to four-year colleges and their masters and doctorate of education programs. (No doubt the master teacher level will require a master's degree.)
Posted by Jeff]]> Thu, 19 Nov 2009 16:12:26 -0600 Memphis Flyer Posted by mad_merc]]> Thu, 19 Nov 2009 12:38:47 -0600 Memphis Flyer Posted by Mary Margaret Ware]]> Wed, 18 Nov 2009 04:06:40 -0600 Memphis Flyer
I just mentioned all of this in a piece I'm working on.
Posted by Chris Davis]]> Fri, 13 Nov 2009 12:43:40 -0600 Memphis Flyer
The one thing about the trolley is that it is unavailable after 10 or 11pm, which makes Midtown to Downtown and back again barhopping nearly impossible. That's without even going into the erratic wait times.

Phlo you bring that bordeaux and I have a wonderful granache to add to the party.
Posted by mad_merc]]> Fri, 13 Nov 2009 12:19:00 -0600 Memphis Flyer Posted by Jonathan McIntosh]]> Fri, 13 Nov 2009 10:52:14 -0600 Memphis Flyer Posted by Stacey Greenberg]]> Fri, 13 Nov 2009 10:24:35 -0600 Memphis Flyer Posted by danzo]]> Fri, 13 Nov 2009 09:38:19 -0600 Memphis Flyer Posted by Devin Greaney]]> Thu, 12 Nov 2009 23:25:30 -0600 Memphis Flyer Posted by Stacey Greenberg]]> Thu, 12 Nov 2009 15:11:58 -0600 Memphis Flyer Posted by Jeff]]> Thu, 12 Nov 2009 08:49:24 -0600 Memphis Flyer Posted by Maggie Louie]]> Thu, 12 Nov 2009 08:34:28 -0600 Memphis Flyer Posted by autoegocrat]]> Thu, 12 Nov 2009 06:53:41 -0600 Memphis Flyer
Will this private bus be screening the passengers first, or something?
Posted by Powergamz]]> Wed, 11 Nov 2009 17:08:40 -0600 Memphis Flyer Posted by melanie]]> Wed, 11 Nov 2009 17:01:28 -0600 Memphis Flyer Posted by mayfield]]> Wed, 11 Nov 2009 15:58:25 -0600 Memphis Flyer Posted by urbanut]]> Wed, 11 Nov 2009 15:34:28 -0600 Memphis Flyer