own seat. bringing their own chair to the table. shirley just didn t say it, she did it. eddy, is the country ahead of party leadership in terms of voting for diverse candidates? when you look at 2016, many people around this country weren t excited and we know grassroots candidates in the midterms got people very excited. i think so, stephanie. look, i think we re seeing the effects in the political arena of the demographic shifts that have taken place all throughout the country. and as i was listening to chris piece, i was thinking about the 1937 exquisite novel their eyes were watching god and describing black women as the mules of the world. and in some ways the way in which black women have been thought about by the democratic party has been as kind of the mule. to carry the weight. the most loyal constituency. the constituency that will turn out to vote. what we see very clearly is that they re no longer just simply trying it turn out the vote, but
broadcast. and popular culture has even started to include all women, in the ensemble cast. from the front linted to the corners of power to the comedy stage, women have unprecedented opportunities to raise their voices and speak their minds. but history encourages us not to be complacent. i was reminded this on tuesday when google honored zorra neil horseton with an original doodle on what would have been her 123rd birthday. finally, she was all over the imag internet. for everyone who read their eyes were watching god in freshman english, or grappled with the request mules and men in an anthropology course, or caught halle berry s performance in oprah winfrey s version of their eyes, it s worth noting
think much more about the training and the opportunities to learn that we provide teachers. in no other sector do we ask people to improve and do complex work and then not provide close training on specific aspects of the work so they can do the work better. are you worried we re going to get to common core later in our discussion. are you worried that common core is going to come along and just be placed on the laps of teachers with a hardy good luck and a handshake? my point is if we want to have these more advanced and ambitious goals for school then we shouldn t be thinking that the other piece that we need to do is simply classify teachers fire some find others. teaching is very complicated work. trying to do something like help a fifth-grader learn to build and critique a mathematical argument or a high school student to compare romeo & juliet with their eyes were watching god. those aren t easy things. and we haven t provided the kind of careful training on the specifi
demeet truce newlen. we re learning much more about him today. he attended the lake academy alternative school, a school dedicated to serving at risk students. his facebook page on december 30th concluded with a post that said this. die, all of you. one witness to the shooting says that lane s face was basically expressionless when he opened fire and all the horror, of course, was caught on the emergency dispatch. attention, chardon rescue. we have an active shooter at the high school. active gunshots at the high school. chardon, we have three students down in the cafeteria at this time. we still don t know where the shooter is. also, there is a fourth one down in room 200. t.j. lane would ultimately be chased from the school by a teacher. and then arrested less than half a mile away near his own car. all of this unfolding in a small town, roughly 30 miles east of cleveland. at chardon high school, classes were canceled today. the flags will be lowered across the state. l