Humanities consultant. Lover of books, the arts, travel, and life!
Bayside, New York
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Tesla earned $2.3 billion in the United States in 2024.
You'd think it paid a lot in taxes, right?
Well it paid precisely $0 in federal income taxes last year.
You want waste and fraud? Look at what some big corporations and the rich are getting away with.
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Join me, @CarolJago, David Steiner & Carey Wright for a discussion of the latest NAEP reading results, presented by the National Assessment Governing Board, in partnership with the Johns Hopkins Institute for Education Policy. Feb. 4, 10 a.m. Eastern US
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After Trumpβs presserβ¦..
"This constant lying is not aimed at making the people believe a lie, but at ensuring that no one believes anything anymore.
A people that can no longer distinguish between truth and lies cannot distinguish between right and wrong.
And such a people, deprived of the power to think and judge, is, without knowing and willing it, completely subjected to the rule
of lies. With such a people, you can do whatever you want."
~Hannah Arendt, (Oct, 1906 - Dec, 1975) German historian and philosopher
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If we don't start taking care of our teachers, soon there's going to be no one left to take care of the students.
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Travel can be stressful, even when all goes as planned. Remember to show kindness and patience to fellow passengers, airline workers, and airport workers who keep our transportation systems moving.
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βThe ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist.β
β Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism
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βI wish it need not have happened in my time,β said Frodo.Β βSo do I,β said Gandalf, βand so do all who live to see such times.Β But that is not for them to decide.Β All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.β
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".... you must go on. I can't go on. I'll go on."
-Samuel Beckett, The Unnameable.
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βI wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.
"So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.β
β J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
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ALT For My Students, After the Election There are still your stories, still stars in the pine trees. There are still children making their way back from school, trying not to step on cracks in the sidewalk, believing it matters. There are still mothers kneeling in the ruins, promising the gunshots aren't coming. There are still fathers alone in the night, the wounds in them like mule-deer in the orchards, trying not to clack their antlers. There is still the heart, the moon. Come, loves, let's stand here after madness. The world is not over, only broken. There are old books, there are horses in the lemon trees. There are children, still, waiting in the classrooms, looking up with tired eyes full of wonder. Look at them. There is work we have to do. βJoseph Fasano
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"If one asked me to what do I think one must principally attribute the singular prosperity and growing force of this people, I would answer that it is to the superiority of its women."
-- Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America II, 3.12
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"Learning should be seen as a qualitative change in a person's way of seeing, experiencing, understanding, conceptualizing something in the real world - rather than as a quantitative change in the amount of knowledge someone possesses."
-Paul Ramsden (Australian educator)
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My message to the world: We all need to read more books - classic and contemporary, comic and tragic, fiction and nonfiction.
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Come learn from @CarolJago and @SonjaCherryPaul at #CEL24 this November as we discuss why LEADERSHIP matters as well as the daily MATTERS of leadership.
Information and Registration: bit.ly/CELConference
ALT 2024 CEL Annual Convention. LEADERSHIP matters; Leadership MATTERS. November 24-26. Boston, MA. 2024 Keynotes. Sunday: Carol Jago. Monday: Sonja Cherry-Paul
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Fear no more the heat of the sun,
Nor the furious winter's blast;
Thou thy worldly task has done,
And the dream of life is past.
Golden lads and girls all must
Follow thee, and come to dust.
Fear no more the frown of the great,
Death does mock the tyrant foe;
Happiest is the early fate,
Misery with time does grow.
Monarchs, sages, peasants must
Follow thee and come to dust.
No exorciser harm thee,
No spell of witchcraft charm thee,
Grim ghost unlaid forbear thee,
The fairy elves be near thee!
Quiet consummation have,
Unremoved be thy grave.
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California English call for manuscripts: Rebuilding Students' Reading and Writing Muscles. Deadline Oct. 1. More info at cateweb.org
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As the new year begins, let the students know you are glad they're there! amazon.com/dp/0367622211
