Category: Frankie Bow

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“If you don’t have enough jobs….you cannot train your way to victory.”

 

Higher ed is great.  It’s a public good and a private good.  If it weren’t for higher ed, I’d have to set my murder mysteries somewhere else.

But training displaced workers doesn’t make jobs magically appear; not only that, the time spent retraining may have been better spent looking for employment:

“What is more surprising — because no one else has looked at this question lately anywhere in the country — is that the laid-off people around Janesville who went to Blackhawk [Technical College] are faring worse than their laid-off neighbors who did not.”

 

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The Next Big Thing

As a New York City public school teacher, I’ve been attending meetings for almost three decades. There’s always an urgent problem that absolutely cannot wait.

Students need more test prep. Students need less test prep.

Teachers must stand. Teachers must not read aloud. Teachers must sit in rocking chairs and read aloud.

Students must do all writing in class. Students must do all writing at home.

Whatever the Thing is, we must do it immediately.

Frankie Bow’s first novel, THE MUSUBI MURDER , is available at Audible.com, Amazon.com, and iTunes.

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Aaaaaaauuuuuugh! (Or, if you prefer, eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!)

From Discover Magazine online: “Their research is already yielding surprising results. Pace’s studies of residential showers have raised serious concerns that showerheads may act as delivery vehicles for bacteria that cause pulmonary disease. Dunn’s microbial transects of the American house are turning up shocking similarities between the ecosystem of your pillow and that of your toilet (see “Mapping the Home’s Microbe Habitats,” page 5). And you don’t even want to know what is turning up in detailed analyses of public bathrooms.”

I am going to dip my entire house in boiling bleach now, starting with my  pillowcase .