Rescheduled to today, for no reason other than I forgot.

School superintendent to Thomas Friedman: Why you are wrong about Race to the Top – “Race to the Top’s heavy-handed, top-down mandates create division and derision within the public education community at precisely a time all sides should be coming together.”

Paleo for Women | Food &Love Hack Friday: Get Indignant – “Sometimes we need to not just be wholly self-loving but also fierce beings standing up for ourselves in the face of monstrosities.”

Changing or Escaping | Everyday Paleo – “Change because you know you are worth it, not because you are desperately trying to escape yourself. From there, set realistic goals and be patient. Get off the roller coaster. You deserve better.”

Conservative Think Tank: Unions Are Powerful and Dangerous « Diane Ravitch’s blog – “What the unions do is to give teachers a voice in decisions about the conditions of teaching and learning. They give them representation if they are treated unjustly. They guarantee due process. Further, they provide an advocate for public education when decisions are made about the budget. Had there been a strong union in Texas, the Legislature would not have cut $5.4 billion from the budget for public education. Had there been a strong union in Louisiana, the Legislature would not have authorized the creation of vouchers and charters that take money out of the minimum foundation budget for public schools. And unions do something else that matters to our society: They create a middle class. It may not be a coincidence that income inequality has grown as union membership has declined. Norman Hill and Velma Hill, veteran civil rights and labor activists, pointed out in a recent post on the Shanker blog that “the wages of black union members are 31 percent higher than the wages of African Americans who are not union members. The union wage advantage for women workers is 34 percent; for Latino workers, it is a whopping 51 percent.””

Why local trumps organic for nutrient content – Why local trumps the organic vs. conventional debate: “Most of the produce sold at large supermarket chains is grown hundreds – if not thousands – of miles away, in places like California, Florida and Mexico. This is especially true when you’re eating foods that are out of season in your local area (like a banana in mid-winter in New York). Days – maybe more than a week – have passed since it was picked, packaged and trucked to the store, where it can sit on the shelves even longer. The problem with this is that food starts to change as soon as it’s harvested and its nutrient content begins to deteriorate. Total vitamin C content of red peppers, tomatoes, apricots, peaches and papayas has been shown to be higher when these crops are picked ripe from the plant. This study compared the Vitamin C content of supermarket broccoli in May (in season) and supermarket broccoli in the Fall (shipped from another country). The result? The out-of-season broccoli had only half the vitamin C of the seasonal broccoli.”