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Rhena Jasey, a Harvard graduate, will be one of Equity’s teachers this fall. [via] The Obama administration is pushing for more charter schools, but so far the movement has yielded some pretty unimpressive results.  Still, it’s hard not to be intrigued by the Equity Project charter set to open in Washington Heights this fall. The Read More

The League’s Mark Thompson has a  great post up on  affirmative action that has had me thinking about the topic all evening.  I’m pretty familiar with most of the common objections to affirmative action, and I’m particularly good at convincing folks that affirmative action isn’t a form of “reverse racism” or bigotry against white people.  Read More

After reading the second paragraph of this weekend story in the Washington Post about Michelle Obama, I had to manually prevent my eyeballs from rolling into the back of my head: So far, the first lady has chosen to be a food bank volunteer with an outsize entourage and an education activist with the largest soapbox Read More

Did you know that some Republicans, like Sen. John McCain for instance, are unhappy with President Obama and his leftist agenda? News at 11! Your PostBourgie-approved reading material from the weekend: 1. In her exhausting and depressing essay in this month’s edition of The Atlantic, author Sandra Tsing Loh makes a compelling case that the Read More

In my search this morning for some songs to honor all the fathers out there on Father’s Day, particularly mine, I quickly came to realize the offerings were very limited. One online list of father-centered songs turned up Will Smith’s remake of “Just the Two of Us.” I mean, really? It reminded me of Chris Read More

Or, at least, to my people west of Galveston, TX. Are the Easterners among us even familiar with the holiday?

There’s a website called helpiranelection.com, and with a single click, you can put a lovely green patina over your Twitter avatar, to show your support the election dissenters in Iran. After seeing a bunch of newly green avatars today, I tweeted this: Um, why weren’t people changing the color of their avatars after the Zimbabwe Read More

The privilege of being president means the people around you laugh heartily whenever you say something vaguely humorous.
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