This is one of the easiest ways to share your ideas on Politicolor. Every week we ask our contributors two questions and post their answers in an effort to help you find good ideas on the web. What didn’t you know last week? Facts from the The Time Magazine article linked below… the law creating [...]
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The Next 100
We’ve passed a mile marker… 100 posts on Politicolor. This site represents a lot of heavy thinking from within the classroom as well as from the world writ large. The richness of ideas presented here speaks to the communities of scholars created for brief moments in either Los Angeles or Orange, Virginia. While those events [...]
Weekly Wavelength
The summer circuit has begun. A few of our regular contributors are on their way to Orange, Virginia for the NEH Landmarks Institute at Madison’s Montpelier. So, I’m finally posting this today courtesy of free wifi at Hyperion Coffee in Fredericksburg. Here’s what your favorite group of civic-minded thinkers are thinking this week: What didn’t [...]
Weekly Wavelength
Summer vacation has either started or is very near for most of our contributors in the classroom. I think it shows in the diversity of ideas shared this week–including student portfolios! What didn’t you know last week? Great in-depth reporting by NPR and ProPublica about Traumatic Brain Injury from Afghanistan and Iraq and the lack [...]
Weekly Wavelength
Once a week, Politicolor contributors will answer two simple questions to share the objects of their own mental wavelengths that inform their work as teachers, citizens and thinkers. Take a look at what we rounded up this week and share your own responses by leaving a comment. If you’d like to contribute to the initial [...]
Weekly Wavelength
It’s a spectrum of color that makes light possible. Each color operates at its own wavelength to illuminate a dark space, the face of the moon or the road ahead. Once a week, Politicolor contributors will answer two simple questions to share the objects of their own mental wavelengths that inform their work as teachers, [...]
Leader + Follower = A Movement
Each in his own turn, to be ruled and to rule. In Washington today, a group of attendees at the Gov 2.0 Expo considered how to best build online communities to foster citizen engagement. The presentation was introduced by this video of a dancing guy. He was just a weird guy dancing by himself until [...]
The Constitution and a Colorful Imagination
A friend posted an article from The Onion on my Facebook wall today with the note, “Seemed tailor-made for you.” She was right and I imagine it’s a laugh we can share here too. The headline: Area Man Passionate Defender of What He Imagines the Constitution To Be And the blurb that earned the first [...]
Bon Jovi Believes in the Power of We
The nightly news in Austin has been dominated by updates from Fort Hood. Perhaps it’s moments like this that justify that last story on the national news. The one about a long lost teddy bear or crazy cute animals at the local zoo. Tonight, however, that last story was more than a palate cleanser. On [...]
Knowing Political Knowledge
In The Politics, Aristotle suggests political knowledge is sovereign knowledge: In all the branches of knowledge and in every kind of craft the end in view is some good. In the most sovereign of these, the capacity for [leadership in] political matters, the end in view is the greatest good and the good which is [...]
