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You breathe, you learn, you lose.You take, you break, you...

Mon, 20 May 2013 01:31:24 -0400

You breathe, you learn, you lose.
You take, you break, you choose.
And as, you learn, and cry.
You do, your best, and try.

And as, the days, go by.
It makes you, wonder why.
You try so hard, so hard.
To mend what’s bound to fall apart

Input // Output / Caroline in the Delta

Tue, 14 May 2013 23:23:46 -0400

Input // Output / Caroline in the Delta:

Lately I’ve felt anything but consistent. Ecstatic? Sometimes. Crushed? Sometimes. Exhausted? A lot of times. It’s the end of year three and despite a mostly

Photo

Tue, 14 May 2013 00:27:55 -0400

When you feel like a failure//when you feel like your...

Tue, 14 May 2013 00:20:09 -0400

When you feel like a failure//when you feel like your failing//when it’s night.

"High-income families are increasingly focusing their resources — their money, time and knowledge of..."

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 17:41:57 -0400

“High-income families are increasingly focusing their resources — their money, time and knowledge of what it takes to be successful in school — on their children’s cognitive development and educational success. They are doing this because educational success is much more important than it used to be, even for the rich.”

- No Rich Child Left Behind

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/04/27/no-rich-child-left-behind/

WHY WON’T TUMBLR LET ME LINK?!

bahahahahaha for some reason this made my entire day infinitely...

Sun, 14 Apr 2013 18:15:58 -0400

bahahahahaha for some reason this made my entire day infinitely better.

The Fourth Year Approaches | Caroline in the Delta

Sun, 14 Apr 2013 18:08:03 -0400

The Fourth Year Approaches | Caroline in the Delta:

LIVIN’ AND LEARNIN’ Y’ALL!

BRING ON SPRING

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Wed, 10 Apr 2013 22:21:43 -0400

April | Caroline in the Delta

Wed, 03 Apr 2013 00:52:34 -0400

April | Caroline in the Delta

petermorwood: k-m-bloomy: escapekit: Chromatic Typewriter...

Mon, 01 Apr 2013 01:06:35 -0400

petermorwood:

k-m-bloomy:

escapekit:

Chromatic Typewriter Prints

Tyree Callahan has recycled (or upcycled, perhaps) a classic 1937 Underwood typewriter by replacing letters with sponges soaked across the spectrum with bright yellows, reds, blues and combinations thereof.

I want to use this and write a story with it and see what picture comes out.

This is amazing.

racismschool: Food Inequality While the national average for...

Tue, 05 Mar 2013 12:45:18 -0500

racismschool:

Food Inequality

While the national average for those with food insecurity in their homes is 14.5 percent, Native people, Black people and Latino people are hit the hardest.

As of 2011, One in four Black households (25.1% up from 24.9% in 2009) and one in four Latin@ households (26.2% down from 26.9% in 2009) were food insecure.

Frustratingly enough, (but not at all surprising) I was able to find several pieces of information on white, Black, Latin@ and Asian food disparities. Missing from almost every article, chart and graph was Native people. This is particularly disheartening because no matter what year I compared, the numbers for Native people’s food insecurity wasn’t just double the national average, it is double that of Black and Latin@ people.

In every racial group, it is the children who are hit the hardest. The above graphic from 2010, shows the national food insecurity rates and then the national child food insecurity rates. What many fail to realize is that children are paying the price first and foremost. The problem is, so many see this as someone else’s issue. Realistically, hell-even selfishly, we should remember how much food insecurity affects the mental, emotional and physical health of children. How it affects childhood education. How it so closely correlates to what their futures hold. Which means, what our country’s future holds. Feeding a hungry child today could stop us from having to pay an even bigger price tomorrow.

Feeding America is a great place to go if you need food, if you want to volunteer or if you want to donate. Do what you can, start in your own back yard and then expand it to the world.

Do it for selfish reasons. The person you help feed today, might be the person who heals your pain tomorrow.

Discomfort | Caroline in the Delta

Mon, 04 Mar 2013 23:32:51 -0500

Discomfort | Caroline in the Delta:

live, from San Antonio!

Quarter-Life Crisis | Caroline in the Delta

Thu, 28 Feb 2013 19:03:44 -0500

Quarter-Life Crisis | Caroline in the Delta

Know your fight is not with them Yours is with your time here...

Sat, 23 Feb 2013 20:33:02 -0500

Know your fight is not with them
Yours is with your time here
Dream your dreams but don’t pretend
Make friends with what you are

Lincoln

Sat, 23 Feb 2013 18:14:43 -0500

QUOTE: Most people are as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Student response:
I agree with this quote because its telling me if you set your mind to it you can be very happy as a lion eating a buffalo. Also I agree with this quote because it say if you set your mind to it you do it you can be it you can make so if you follow your dreams you can do it all by yourself. Without anybodys help so if it was up to me I would very much follow my dreams and be as happy as I can.

"TFA, suitably representative of the liberal education reform more generally, underwrites,..."

Mon, 18 Feb 2013 17:22:48 -0500

“TFA, suitably representative of the liberal education reform more generally, underwrites, intentionally or not, the conservative assumptions of the education reform movement: that teacher’s unions serve as barriers to quality education; that testing is the best way to assess quality education; that educating poor children is best done by institutionalizing them; that meritocracy is an end-in-itself; that social class is an unimportant variable in education reform; that education policy is best made by evading politics proper; and that faith in public school teachers is misplaced.”

- Eeep. Teach For America’s hidden curriculum

"Language counts because it suggests, if not highlights, the thinking underneath the words used...."

Sun, 10 Feb 2013 18:30:20 -0500

“Language counts because it suggests, if not highlights, the thinking underneath the words used. Working “with” a community is very different than working “on” a community, just as walking “with” is very different from walking “on.” Words count because they indicate place, position, and power.”

- - Camika Royal in Please Stop Using the Phrase ‘Achievement Gap’, an article that is undoubtedly more valuable in its argument about the words “achievement gap” than it is its argument about the importance of Language, but still…

[My Valentine is LANGUAGE. LET ME MARRY LANGUAGE!]

THIS IS HOW MY LIFE FEELS DAILY.

Sun, 10 Feb 2013 18:21:51 -0500

THIS IS HOW MY LIFE FEELS DAILY.

"I encourage all past, present, and future corps members to continuously question the context of..."

Sun, 10 Feb 2013 18:18:40 -0500

“I encourage all past, present, and future corps members to continuously question the context of their position and to remain humbly resolved to always seek to do the right thing no matter where your path takes you.”

- tonybonthemic, Where Have All the Bloggers Gone?

Six Years in Arkansas | Caroline in the Delta

Fri, 08 Feb 2013 23:57:30 -0500

Six Years in Arkansas | Caroline in the Delta:

It’s gonna happen.