For our STUDENTS For our SCHOOLS For our PROFESSION BE AT THE CAPITOL on Wednesday, April 4, 2012 On April 4, the Louisiana Senate will consider bills that will: • Base almost all personnel decisions – your salaries, your tenure and your job itself – on the unproven new teacher evaluation system. • Virtually abolish … More April 4
In full corrido-mania I found this villista, 112 years old. Axé.
I am reading on Alcides Arguedas, about whom I knew relatively little. I learned the most amazing thing I have learned all semester: he thought that through education, the Indians of Bolivia could be transformed into Swedes! This is something like Macunaíma, bathing in the magic pool and turning into a beautiful, white prince. * … More Alcides Arguedas
Has anyone been to Veracruz lately? My original plan was to arrive at 11:23 AM, go through customs and then go directly to the bus station, where I would have coffee with milk before catching a bus south to Alvarado. Then there would be a local bus or truck to Tlacotalpan, where Mexico is said … More Veracruz, Ver.
By a brilliant photographer. Axé.
The character in this novel my class is reading is a composer of narcocorridos, which is one reason why I have so many corridos on this blog lately — I find them as I am looking for examples for the students. Now I have found this, on the Battle of Zacatecas, Zacatecas being one of … More Zacatecas
…with the rowboat ice-fast on the shore in the last red light of the year that knows what it is, that knows it’s neither ice nor mud nor winter light but wood, with a gift for burning Axé.
…en el día de su cumpleaños, así nomasito. Axé.
Immigration is not new. Axé.
The harpist starts to sing around 1:22. “Anoche por la ventana, platicando con mi amor.” Axé.
coldhearted scientist وداد 