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The Stanley Fish opinion article in the Sunday New York Times is keyed on two great heroes of our (his and my) day, Ted Williams and Frank Sinatra.

Both had great initial success, were notorious for bad behavior, and had down times in mid-career. But Frank had a spectacular comeback as Chairman of the Board and Ted at age 39 batted .388 and hit a home run on his last at bat.

The attached draft ATTAIN (Achievement Through Technology and Innovation) bill is a quick read even at 50 pages double spaced. eSCHOOL News Online reported yesterday that this draft legislationi has just been included as a section (Part F) in the proposed renewal of the No Child Left Behind Act.

In the tenth year since Al Shanker’s death, Richard Kahenberg has authored “Tough Liberal …” (Columbia Univ. Press) that addresses Al’s battles over schools, unions, race and democracy. As the legendary president of American Federation of Teachers Al was the quintessential advocacy leader.

OLPC "Give 1, Get 1" promo starts Nov. 12 in the U.S. and Canada
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Children's Music Workshop presents music education online.

http://www.childrensmusicworkshop.com/links/links1.html

In 2003, Ted Kraver interviewed most of the GAZeL CEO’s and found that they wanted their cluster organization to address two issues. One was eLearningi researchi sources to develop their emerging products to make them more effective.

A number of the eSATSi team members came together in the 1970’s and early 1980’ to lead the advocacy for Arizona gifted education. After successful gifted legislationi with a mandate and funding they thought the job was done.

2007 Task Team/Board of Directors

Team Leader -- Ted Kraver – High tech designer - developer (jet engines, ram jets, rockets) and entrepreneur (biotech, bank software, graphic tablets, auto CVT, games-motion capture) now plying his trade in the civic arena.

eLearningi Systems for Arizona Teachers and Students Inc. (eSATSi) is a non-profit corporation that is operates in task team mode. Task team members are few, but our network of folks that pitch in to help is vast. Each member is an Arizona expert in crucial K-12 eLearning segment.

I had a lively chat with Rick Ogston yesterday. He is president of the Carpe Diem eLearningi Communityi a 6-12 charter school in Yuma (rogston@cdayuma.com, www.cdayuma.com , 928-210-5777.

The Carpe Diem purpose build school is designed for hybrid eLearning. This concept is spot-on.