Mike Gocksch
Mike Gocksch
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Gocksch: A sad state for education
Looking beyond New Haven, Connecticut’s educational landscape is puzzling and a bit disheartening. Though the state remains the wealthiest in the union in terms of income per capita, Connecticut is home to the country’s largest achievement gap between wealthy students and their poorer counterparts.
Burrows improvises her latest
A few months ago, a student production of “The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee” was only the tiny seed of an idea in the mind of Maggie Burrows ’10. But the path from the thought to the theater — “Spelling Bee” premiers this weekend — has been fraught with difficulties.
Gocksch, Lerner-Byars and Stango: Schooling a city, a state
Last night the Board of Aldermen approved the new contract for New Haven teachers, representing the end of a well-run process, and a beginning for real school reform in the city.
Ring in Halloween with “gloomth”
A recent front-page article in the News informs us that the Yale Center for British Art suffers from a lack of visibility: Many undergraduates, apparently, do not know it exists.
Sorrowful Stairs
The dust jacket of Lorrie Moore’s new book “A Gate at the Stairs” informs us that she writes about “the anxiety and disconnection of post-9/11 America, the insidiousness of racism, the blind-sidedness of war and the recklessness thrust on others in the name of love.”
Letter: Working together for change in New Haven schools
Re: “In city schools, looks can be deceiving” (Oct. 6): As Assistant Superintendent Garth Harries pointed out during the discussion panel hosted by the Yale Democrats last Wednesday, “Education Reform in New Haven: The Next Phase,” the excellent physical condition of New Haven’s public schools testifies to the community’s investment in the education it provides to its young people.
Backstage: Tao Lin
Meet Tao Lin, Poet, Techy, Outlaw
V-necks and ennui
Anyone who has heard of Tao Lin, the 26-year-old Brooklyn writer, is probably aware of his proclivity for publicity stunts.
Of ‘Vice’ and men
Thomas Pynchon doesn’t usually write this quickly. His books, which tend to be extended affairs — “Against the Day” (2006) sprawled over 1,085 pages — usually come one per decade, and they’re not exactly beach-read material. “Inherent Vice,” however, follows its predecessor into print a mere three years later, and it bears testament to a less belabored writing process: with fewer than 400 pages of mostly lucid narrative, it may be the most accessible book Pynchon has ever written.
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