Archive - September, 2014

“”If you’re at the bottom and the top keeps pulling away, you’re just further…”

September 30 Comments Off on “”If you’re at the bottom and the top keeps pulling away, you’re just further…” Category: Education, Feed, Tumblr

“If you’re at the bottom and the top keeps pulling away, you’re just further behind.

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Most families can’t compete. Incomes have barely budged for most Americans since 1980 after accounting for inflation. For the top 10 percent, IRS data show pay has jumped 80 percent after inflation. For the top 1 percent, it’s soared 177 percent.

The education divide has grown despite the multi-decade presence of Head Start, the federal program for nutrition and early childhood education. Most states rely primarily on a private pre-school system that can reinforce the wealth gap”

School spending by affluent is widening wealth gap.

This Licensed T-Shirt Tells You a Lot About How DC Comics Views Wonder Woman

September 30 Comments Off on This Licensed T-Shirt Tells You a Lot About How DC Comics Views Wonder Woman Category: Feed, Tumblr

dcwomenkickingass:

Warner Bros. makes a lot of money each year licensing the rights to the superhero IP of DC Comics. And that includes literally hundreds of t-shirts. We know that licensing can be pretty strict. It took a public shaming for them to allow the Superman logo to be used on a statue of a young fan who had been starved to death.

So it’s always interesting to see what DOES get signed off on. Like this shirt. 

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FFS DC

On Poisoned Apples, the “Great YA Debate,” and the Death of the Patriarchy

September 29 Comments Off on On Poisoned Apples, the “Great YA Debate,” and the Death of the Patriarchy Category: Feed, Tumblr

On Poisoned Apples, the “Great YA Debate,” and the Death of the Patriarchy:

anneursu:

“Ah, here we are. Appropriate subjects for sophisticated narrative art. A serious novel is about things these gentlemen find serious—like the decline of the cultural authority of the straight white male. It astonishes me how endlessly fascinating some men find themselves.”

Good write up of the YA reading debate.

“But there was actually a sense of something even more troubling — a loss of control….”

September 29 Comments Off on “But there was actually a sense of something even more troubling — a loss of control….” Category: Feed, Journalism, Tumblr

“But there was actually a sense of something even more troubling — a loss of control. Journalists don’t often say this out loud, but we do think there’s an element of art to what we do. And what do most artists want, as much if not more than money? Creative control. But permeating almost every session was a sense of desperation — at regaining some kind of control over how we connect and impact with our audience. The homepages that newsrooms have sunk countless dollars and person-hours into upgrading are already dying a rapid death. Increasingly, story traffic depends on the whim of the swipes — with faceless folks in the bowels of Silicon Valley, at Google and increasingly at the social media giants of Twitter and especially Facebook, exerting an inordinate amount of power. If there was one word that I heard more than “viral” at the ONA, it was “algorithm.” Facebook has completed coded the way that millions of would-be news consumers get information, and no one knows how to crack it.”

Looking for the soul of journalism’s new machines at ONA2014.