Tasty Morning Bytes – Transgendered Targeted, Building on History and Conical Asian Hats
Good morning, DCentric readers! A good Tuesday to you all.
Extraordinary teachers can't overcome poor classroom situations An over-burdened teacher responds to Education Secretary Arne Duncan's recent comment that "The best thing you can do is get children in front of an extraordinary teacher." Apparently, it's not that simple. Charter school teacher Ellie Herman writes, "we can't demand that teachers be excellent in conditions that preclude excellence." (Los Angeles Times)
“Potential emerging pattern” after Second Transgendered Person Attacked in DC Two transgendered people were shot in Northeast in July: "Both cases involved transgender victims. Due to the similarities of the victims’ sexual self-identification, M.O., locations, and lookout for suspects, the cases are being investigated as a potential emerging pattern." (homicidewatch.org)
Former Slave Pen Becomes Home For Seniors In Alexandria, a historically African-American church now offers affordable housing on a block that was once a slave pen. (wamu.org)
Does American Apparel’s ‘Conical Asian Hat’ Offend You? What is more offensive? The track record of the purveyors of this iconic head gear or selling a hat some consider necessary to their livelihoods to people in rich, developed nations? (nymag.com)
How Much Affordable Housing Do We Have, Anyway? Um, it's tough to say: "The problem is, there's no central clearinghouse for that kind of information—which makes determining whether we've made any progress pretty much impossible." (Washington City Paper)