How does poverty affect literacy and academic achievement?
     Listen to Berliner talk about his paper, Poverty and Potential.
     The Voice Interview with David Berliner.
     TCRecord, May 16, 2009, Retrieved May 16, 2009 from, www.tcrecord.org/voice.asp
     You will probably have to sign up (free) for TCRecord to listen - yes, it is worth it.

I am thoroughly enjoying my time working with teachers/administrators in Gillette. I realize that there is an economic downturn in the world, but Gillette is a boomtown. They can't seem to build motels fast enough to handle all of the people who work in the mines and on the wells. Many Spanish-dominant families have recently moved here to work in service industries and in the mines and/or on the wells. Some of my materials for Gillette might be of interest for some of you.
www.joanwink.com/sched.php

Postmodernism is a very useful invention to keep intellectuals in their preferred status of conformist subservient to those in power. It mostly unintelligible gibberish … It falls into two categories as far as I can see, unintelligible and truism. The truism is said in very inflated rhetoric, polysyllables and so on, and what it turns out to be is a way for intellectuals to be more radical than thou, but do nothing except talk to each other in academic seminars and not get involved with the general public in real activism (Chomsky, as cited in Atherton, 2009, p. 96).