May 5, 1886: The Bay View Massacre in Milwaukie, Wisc.
One topic that has been on my mind lately is the attempt to kill the 8-hour workday. In many places in the private sector, anything less than a 10-hour day is derisively referred to as working ”half-a-day”. Purely by accident, I learned the May 5 is the anniversary of what is called the Bay View [...]
Finland Finland Finland, the country where I quite want to teach
As it turns out, Monty Python was right: Finland isn’t just a great place for snack lunch in the hall… It really does have it all: social democracy, smoked fish, and a public school system that American reformers are beginning to notice. Too bad they are noticing the wrong thing. As many of you know, Finland is [...]
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