Winterthur's annual event brings in paying visitors, but few buyers.

Delaware offers up this story about shared practices among the best high schools in the state (schools that add value, that is, not just schools that happen to have rich kids). What caught my eye was the inclusion of Indian River High School. Several years ago a few schools took seriously a governor’s campaign to boost literacy. One of those schools, Frankford Elementary, is part of the Indian River District. A take-charge reform principal changed the way the school did business and achieved

Via Mick , I see that I somehow missed a Barbara Ehrenreich op-ed in Saturday’s NYTimes. Mick makes some good points but I’d like to focus on one small part of Ehrenreich’s story about a married couple brutalized by the economy. Delaware does not require fingerprints, but the Parentes discovered that they were each expected to apply for 40 jobs a week , even though no money was offered for gas, tolls or babysitting. In addition, Kristen had to drive 35 miles a day to attend “job readi