I read an interesting article in the Economist last night, "Social mobility and inequality, Upper Bound", http://www.economist.com/world/united-states/displaystory.cfm?story_id=15908469. (MTR Language Arts Wall: Yes. You underline titles of magazines, newspapers, books, and movies. The titles of parts inside them, such as...
I recently talked with a college student who was considering either the MTR (urban education) or medical school (medicine) as his first steps toward a career. After several weeks of consideration, he emailed me to let me know he...
So my wife and I have a 2010 Book Reading list. Book One was Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls. We picked this book because our third daughter, Ruthie, was reading it in her 5th grade English class. This provided...
Recently, I read a fascinating article from the December 12th issue of The Economist entitled Lessons from "The Leopard" (http://www.economist.com/world/europe/displaystory.cfm?story_id=15065405).The article explained the concept of "genteel decline" from the book The Leopard. This is a fictional novel that tells the story of a rich...