Tuesday, November 21, 2006  Media Appearance and Eductional Debt
First, I want to thank Fatima Ashraf of Radio Tahrir for
interviewing me this past week for Pacifica Radio's Informed
Dissent series. We did a brief interview on Proposal 2 and how
it's been swept under the rug in light of the "Democratic
Sweep." You can find it on the Nov 18th in part one about half
way through.  Last night I was reading and talking to one of my
boys and I told him I was reading about the achievement gap. To
which he responded, "You love to read about that ish." Which I
do, it's the motivation for my research. While we talked I
lamented over not really learning anything "new" from most
publications on it. He responded, "Well if you're going to
publish on it, why don't you just write the book that someone's
going to write in 25 years. Just say it (the achievement gap)
ain't going no where." While on the face this remark is
fatalistic, I think he's actually right on. I was further
confirmed of this when I woke up and finally rea