Monthly Archives: January 2012

“Nationally, 1.6 million U.S. children lived in homeless shelters, motels, with relatives or other families or living on the street in 2010 — a 38 percent increase since 2007, according to the center [The National Center on Family Homelessness].

The large number of homeless students presents a particular challenge to school districts.

In addition to emotional and health problems, homeless students are more likely to go hungry and are four times more likely to show delayed development, the center says. They have twice the rate of learning disabilities as non-homeless children and the vast majority of them lack proficiency in math and reading. At CPS [Chicago Public Schools], 98 percent of homeless students are members of minority groups.”

–Adeshina Emmanuel. “Number of Homeless Students Surge, Putting Strain on Schools.” Chicago Sun-Times. Jan. 6, 2012. Web.

“The clock struck the tenth hour of the evening watch. As the next long hour passed, I found myself touching things–a chair, the bookshelf, the annoying clock–just to make sure that the entire world hadn’t vanished with her.”

–Carol Berg. The Daemon Prism. New York: Roc, 2012. Quote on page 21.

“Congratulations on choosing to wear the World’s most leading brand of off road running shoes.”

–Bottom of inov-8 F-Lite 311 shoe box.

“Theodore Roosevelt was the perfect subject for the cartoonists’ art. One is tempted to say that if TR, in all his distinctive glory, had not come along, American culture would have had to invent him. Presidents were boring before Theodore Roosevelt, and boring after him; life, as many said after he died, seemed emptier without him.”

–Rick Marschall. Bully! The Life and Times of Theodore Roosevelt. Washington, D.C.: Regnery Publishing, 2011. Quote on page 4.

“Stiff shoulders mean a blocked spirit.”

–Shigeru Mizuki. Onward Towards Our Noble Deaths. Trans. Jocelyne Allen. Montreal: Drawn and Quarterly, 2011. Quote on page 313.

“In the case of the [University of California] regents, you have millionaires and billionaires using their political connections to shape markets and reap personal gain. Thus it should be no surprise when the regents are virtually silent when the university uses violence to stop protests. The wealthy always rely on state-sanctioned violence to impose austerity measures and protect their corporate welfare.”

–Bob Samuels. “Connecting the Dots to Expose the 1 Percent Governing UC.” California Teacher Nov./Dec. 2011: 15.