Dreaming of Wishing Wells

I'm taking a break from grad school application stuff because my brain can't handle it anymore! My little grad school train is moving on down the tracks, which is good I guess. I've started applications and am going to two open houses this week. I still need to update my sadly out of date resume, write my statement of purpose (and then tweak it for each program I'm applying to), and ask people to write recommendations. I always hate doing that. Plus, it's hard cause the schools want mostly academic references, and although I've kept in touch with professors a little bit because of recruiting for Urban Promise, I haven't talked to them that much. And the ones who initially wrote me recommendations for teaching jobs (which I never even got to use because Urban Promise didn't need to see any of that kind of stuff) are the ones I've talked to the least! During my little application break, I'm watching an episode of Teach: Tony Danza on Hulu. This sh...

I saw Waiting for "Superman" yesterday. Kristin offered to go with me, and she was great person to go with. I really liked the movie. David Guggenheim did a great job of making you care about the children that the movie follows as they try to get into a charter school. And I liked how he illustrated the statistics with little cartoon people. Honestly, I was expecting the movie to be more controversial. I'd heard different groups (especially teachers' unions) were boycotting it. I left the movie feeling really sad that people were refusing to see it or saying it was evil. Because really the message of the movie was that we need to work together to make sure children get a better education. I guess some teachers are angry because the movie didn't say much about parents who need to do their part and be more involved in their child's education. True. But the movie gave examples of schools that are being very effective at education children from low-income families...