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With its seafront cafés and ancient alleyways, shouting stallholders and travellers on the move, bustling, exuberant SPLIT is one of the Mediterranean's most compelling cities. It has a unique historical heritage too, having grown out of the palace built here by the Roman Emperor Diocletian in 295AD. The palace remains the city's central ingredient, having been gradually transformed into a warren of houses, tenements, churches and chapels by the various peoples who came to live here after Diocletian's successors had departed. Lying beyond the Roman/medieval tangle of central Split lie suburban streets full of palms and exotic plants, followed by stately rows of socialist-era housing blocks that look like something out of a modernist architectural stylebook.
Nearly everything worth seeing in Split is concentrated in the compact Old Town behind the waterfront Riva, made up in part of the various remains and conversions of Diocletian's Palace itself, and the medieval additions to the west of it. You can walk across this area in about ten minutes, although it would take a lifetime to explore all its nooks and crannies. On either side the Old Town fades into low-rise suburbs of utilitarian stone houses grouped tightly around narrow alleys – Veli Varoš, to the west, and Manuš, to the east, are the most unspoiled – and, although there are no specific sights, worth a brief wander. West of the city centre, the wooded Marjan peninsula commands fine views over the coast and islands from its heights. The best of the beaches are on the north side of Marjan, or east of the ferry dock at Bačvice.
As Croatia's second city, Split is a hotbed of regional pride, and disparagement of Zagreb-dwellers is a frequent, if usually harmless, component of local banter. The city is famous for the vivacious outdoor life that takes over the streets in all but the coldest and wettest months: as long as the sun is shining, the swish cafés of the waterfront Riva are never short of custom.
Brief history
According to conventional wisdom, Split didn't exist at all until the Emperor Diocletian decided to build his retirement home here, although recent archeological finds suggest that a Roman settlement of sorts was founded here before Diocletian's builders arrived. Diocletian's Palace was begun in 295 AD and finished ten years later, when the emperor came back to his native Illyria to escape the cares of empire, cure his rheumatism and grow cabbages. Even in retirement Diocletian maintained an elaborate court here in a building that housed both luxurious palatial apartments in the south of the complex and a military garrison in the north. The palace as a whole measured some 200m by 240m, with walls 2m thick and almost 25m high, while at each corner there was a fortified keep, and four towers along each of the land walls.
The palace was home to a succession of regional despots after Diocletian's death, although by the sixth century it had fallen into disuse. In 614, it was suddenly repopulated by refugees fleeing nearby Salona, which had just been sacked by the Avars and Slavs. The newcomers salvaged living quarters out of Diocletian's neglected buildings, improvising a home in what must have been one of the most grandiose squats of all time. They built fortifications, walled in arches, boarded up windows and repelled attacks from the mainland, accepting Byzantine sovereignty in return for being allowed to preserve a measure of autonomy. The resulting city developed cultural and trading links with the embryonic Croatian state inland, and was absorbed by the Hungaro-Croatian kingdom in the eleventh century.
Venetians, Ottomans and Austrians
By the fourteenth century, Split had grown beyond the confines of the palace, with today's Narodni trg becoming the new centre of a walled city that stretched as far west as the street now known as Marmontova. Venetian rule, established in 1420, occasioned an upsurge in the city's economic fortunes, as the city's port was developed as an entrepôt for Ottoman goods. Turkish power was to be an ever-constant threat, however: Ottoman armies attacked Split on numerous occasions, coming nearest to capturing it in 1657, when they occupied Marjan hill before being driven off by reinforcements hastily shipped in from Venice, Trogir and Hvar.
During the nineteenth century, Austrian rule stimulated trade and helped speed the development of Split's port.
Twentieth-century Split
Split's biggest period of growth occurred after World War II, when industrial growth attracted growing numbers of economic migrants from all over the country. Many of these newcomers came from the Zagora, the rural uplands just inland, and ended up working in the enormous shipyards – colloquially known as the Škver – on Split's northwestern edge, providing the city with a new working-class layer. It was always said that productivity at the Škver was directly related to the on-the-pitch fortunes of Hajduk Split, the football team which more than anything else in Split served to bind traditional inhabitants of the city with recent arrivals. Beginning with the big televised music festivals of the 1960s, Split also became the nation's unofficial pop music capital, promoted as a kind of Croatian San Remo. Since then generations of balladeering medallion men have emerged from the city to regale the nation with their songs of mandolin-playing fishermen and dark-eyed girls in the moonlight.
Into the present
Split entered the twenty-first century as a transit city in which people spent a few hours before boarding their ferries. However the last decade has seen an enormous boost in tourism, with new hostels and new hotels (with ever higher prices) catering for travellers who want to experience the city's unique urban buzz. As Split becomes wealthier, however, it is also becoming socially more conservative and provincial – the kind of place where moral-majority citizens campaign to have Gay Pride marches banned from the streets. The current expansion of Split University may help to alleviate this slide towards philistinism, with more and more young talents being encouraged to stay in the city rather than drift off to Zagreb.Read More
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The Marjan peninsula
The Marjan peninsula
Crisscrossed by footpaths and minor roads, the wooded heights of the Marjan peninsula offer the easiest escape from the bustle of central Split. From the Old Town it's an easy ten-minute walk up Senjska, which ascends westwards through the district of Veli Varoš, arriving after about ten minutes at the Vidilica café on Marjan's eastern shoulder. There's a small Jewish graveyard round the back of the café, and to its right a stepped path climbs towards Vrh Marjana, where there's a wider view of the coast and islands.
About 1km further west, there's an even better panorama from the peninsula's highest point, 178-metre-high Telegrin. Keeping to the left of the Vidilica brings you to a path which heads round the south side of the hill, arriving after about five minutes at the thirteenth-century St Nicholas's Chapel (Sveti Nikola), a simple structure with a sloping belfry tacked on to one side like a buttress. From here, the path continues for 2km, with wooded hillside to the right and the seaside suburbs of Marjan's south coast on the left, before arriving at St Hieronymous's Chapel (Sveti Jere), a simple shed-like structure pressed hard against a cliff – medieval hermits used to live in the caves that are still visible in the rock above. From here you can descend towards the road which leads round the base of the peninsula, or cross its rocky spine to reach Marjan's fragrant, pine-covered northern side. Paths emerge at sea level near Bene bay, where you'll find a combination of rocky and concreted bathing areas and a couple of cafés.
Bacvice beach
Bacvice beach
The main visitor-magnet east of the city centre is Bačvice beach, a few minutes' walk east of the ferry terminal. This simple crescent of sand and shingle can't compare with the beaches farther south, but it remains a popular – and crowded – destination for Splićani of all ages. Bačvice is also the spiritual home of picigin, a game only played in and around Split, which works rather like a netless version of volleyball in the sea, involving a lot of acrobatic leaping around as players try to prevent a small ball from hitting the water. Immediately behind the beach is a chic modern three-tier pavilion, resembling a cross between an Art Deco seaside building and a high-tech metal tent. With several cafés and a couple of swanky eating places inside, it's a popular venue for after-dark drinking and feasting throughout the year. A coastal path leads east from Bačvice past a couple of smaller bays, passing the tennis club where 2001 Wimbledon champion Goran Ivanišević honed his skills. There are plenty more cafés along the way, and the whole stretch is a popular strolling area all year round.
Miljenko Smoje (1923–95)
Miljenko Smoje (1923–95)
Split is famous for its self-deprecating humour, best exemplified by the writings of Miljenko Smoje, a native of the inner-city district of Veli Varoš. Smoje's books, written in Dalmatian dialect, document the lives of an imaginary group of local archetypes and brought the wit of the Splićani to a nationwide audience. An adaptation of his works, Naše malo misto ("Our Little Town"), and its follow up, Velo Misto ("Big Town"), were the most popular comedy programmes in Croatian – and probably Yugoslav – television history.
Orson Welles in Split
Orson Welles in Split
Head for the Joker shopping centre on put Brodarice (ten minutes' walk northeast of the Old Town along Dovominskog rata) and you'll come face to face with a bolero-hatted bronze sculpture of Hollywood director Orson Welles, unveiled in 2007. The statue was designed by Welles's long-time companion, Croatian-born actress and sculptor Oja Kodar, who he met while shooting gloomy central European exteriors for his adaptation of Kafka's The Trial in Zagreb in 1961. Croatia became a second home to Welles, who acted in local-made films (including the partisan war epic Battle on the Neretva in 1969), had a holiday villa at Primošten and – according to local lore – was an eager follower of Hajduk Split.
Split festivals
Split festivals
Feast of St Domnius
(Sveti Dujam or, more colloquially, Sveti Duje) May 7. The city's protector is celebrated with processions, masses and general festivity. Domnius is also the patron saint of woodwork, and you'll see craftsmen selling chairs, tables, barrels and carvings in Split market on the days surrounding the feast.
Mediterranean Film Festival
(Festival mediteranskih filmova) Early June w fmfs.hr. Features and documentaries with a strong regional focus, with showings at open-air cinema Bačvice and Kinoteka Zlatna Vrata, and DJ-led after-parties.
Split Summer Festival
(Splitsko ljeto) Mid-July to mid-August w splitsko-ljeto.hr. In the summer Split hosts a spate of cultural events – including top-quality theatre, a lot of classical music and at least one opera – many performances of which take place on outdoor stages in the Peristyle and other Old Town squares. Seats for the operas cost between 100Kn and 250Kn, significantly less for other events; tickets are available from the HNK box office.
Split Film Festival
September w splitfilmfestival.hr. Independent, radical and subversive features, shorts and documentaries. The main venues are Kino Karaman and Kino Zlatna Vrata.
Hajduk Split
Hajduk Split
Few football teams are as closely associated with their home city as Hajduk Split. Formed in Prague's U beer hall in February 1911 by Croatian students inspired by Czech teams Sparta and Slavia, the club is named after the Robin Hood-like brigands who opposed both Ottoman and Venetian authority from the Middle Ages onwards. Hajduk was an explicitly Croatian team at a time when Split was still part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and, later, towards the end of World War II, the entire squad was shipped to Italy by the Partisans in order to play demonstration matches as an explicitly anti-fascist team. They were also the first team in Yugoslavia to play with a petokraka (communist five-pointed star) on their jerseys, and the first team to remove it when it became clear that Yugoslavia's days were numbered.
A large part of the Hajduk mystique comes from their success on the pitch: they were Yugoslav champions twice in the 1920s, three times in the 1950s, four times in the 1970s and went on to become champions of Croatia five times between 1992 and 2005. They're also famous for their loyal fans, known as the torcida (after the Brazilian fans that Hajduk supporters had seen footage of during the 1950 World Cup). Split's version of the torcida launched itself in October 1950, providing the team with maximum, Rio-style support for the title-decider against Red Star Belgrade – the first time that torches, banners and massed chanting had been seen on the terraces in this part of Europe. Hajduk won the match, but the communist authorities were shocked by the levels of popular frenzy displayed. Horrified by the idea that football supporters could organize themselves without the leadership of the Party, the government came down hard on the torcida. Today, Hajduk and their fans remain an unavoidable part of the urban landscape, and victories over traditional enemies like Dinamo Zagreb are still celebrated with citywide rejoicing. Some would argue that the team has become all-important to the local population as other symbols of Dalmatian identity are gradually eroded and the act of supporting Hajduk becomes one of the few communal experiences left. And although over the last two decades they've fallen from being a major European force to ineffectual east European minnows, if the number of freshly painted Hajduk murals is anything to go by, they still retain the status of number-one local religion.
The team plays in the Poljud Stadium (8. Mediteranskih igara 2; t 021 323 650, w hajduk.hr), a strikingly organic structure originally built for the 1979 Mediterranean Games. The season lasts from September to April and matches take place on Saturday or Sunday; tickets (20–50Kn) are sold from kiosks at the southern end of the ground. Most of the torcida congregate in the northern stand (tribina sjever), while the poshest seats are in the west stand (tribina zapad). Beer and popcorn are available inside, and there are numerous snack bars offering drinks and grills immediately outside.


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A win can mean millions more at the box office, and advertisers say the broadcast is almost as important as the Super Bowl.
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For the entertainment and communications industries, the Academy Awards are a money machine that can radically change the fortunes of individuals and corporations.
Advertisers say the Oscar TV broadcast has become nearly as important to their industry as the NFL's Super Bowl.
"Consumers expect advertisers to come to the Oscars with their A-game," Andy McMillin, a Coca-Cola (KO) vice president, tells The New York Times. The company will be featuring a new Diet Coke ad during the broadcast.
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Hollywood studios also look at Oscar wins as potential financial windfalls. A 2011 report by the research firm IBISWorld said movies that won the Best Picture category for the previous four years brought in, on average, an extra $14 million at the box office.
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In this year's race for Best Picture, both Warner Bros., a division of Time Warner (TWX), and Disney have reportedly spent a record $10 million or more to help the chances of their respective films, "Argo" and "Lincoln" -- amounts the Times says are "up to double what a costly campaign has totaled in years past."
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To follow Joe on Twitter, go to: twitter.com/joelynnturner. Joe also has a Facebook page. There are a few "imposter" JLT Facebook pages out there that are not really represented by Joe. Here is the name of the official page: www.facebook.com/joelynnturnerofficial.
JLT to APPEAR at GREEN ROCK FEST RUSE 2014
Green Rock Fest Ruse 2014 is a festival to give young rock bands a chance to perform their music and gain new fans. Joe will be the special guest of this year's 6th edition. The event will be held on the 13th September 2014 at 5.30 pm on an open stage in front of the Municipality in beautiful Ruse - a Bulgarian city near the Danube river. For more, visit the official website: www.greenrockfestruse.com/ .
From our Friend and Spanish Language Webmaster, Gustavo Solinas: "Por fin! Hoy re inauguro mi sitio oficial dedicado a Joe Lynn Turner. Primer fansite de habla hispana desde el 2002." In English: "Today I relaunch my Joe Lynn Turner official fan site! First fansite in Spanish language since 2002." Check it out, here: www.joelynnturner.com.ar / .
JLT Scheduled to Appear at VIP Party to Celebrate Guns and Roses Movie
A special screening of the movie, GUNS N ROSES APPETITE FOR DEMOCRACY 3D will take place Saturday June 14 in New Brunswick, NJ. JLT is scheduled to perform at the post-screening VIP reception. Tickets can be purchased here: https://www.facebook.com/events/492785167488394/.Other screenings will take place in 100 cities including New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Phoenix, Indianapolis, Denver, Dallas, Atlanta, Detroit, Las Vegas, Columbus, St Louis, Houston, Tucson and more. Official website for the movie: www.gnr3movie.com.
Rock Meets Classic Tour
JLT is on tour with Rock Meets Classic this March and April! See the official tour poster in our European Tour Dates section. He'll join Alice Cooper, Midge Ure, and members of Uriah Heep, Kim Wilde, and the Mat Sinner band along with an orchestra. The official tour website is located here: Click Here.
AS ABOVE, SO BELOW - THE UNAUTHORIZED YNGWIE BIOGRAPHY by Sweden's legendary rock journalist Anders Tengner
The long awaited book AS ABOVE, SO BELOW - THE UNAUTHORIZED YNGWIE BIOGRAPHY by Sweden's legendary rock journalist Anders Tengner was released world wide in English on the 8th of May on the Amazon/Kindle platform. The book has already been a smashing, sold out success in Sweden. To read the official press release, click here.
Schubert In Rock Project
JLT is happy to announce that he will be part of the "Schubert in Rock" Project. The recordings went really well and he is also looking forward to bringing it all on stage live at a show in Innsbruck Austria on December 6, 2013. For more information about this project, visit the project's Facebook Page here:www.facebook.com/SchubertInRock.
Avantasia Album Featuring JLT To Be Released in April 2013
He has sold more than 3 million discs worldwide and has played more than 600 concerts in almost 40 countries: Tobias Sammet, composer and vocalist of AVANTASIA, is one of Germany's biggest internationally acclaimed artists in recent music history. For his latest CD, he collaborated with Joe. The new album "The Mystery Of Time" presents another chapter in Tobias Sammets successful metal opera. Ordering and other info, here: www.nuclearblast.de.
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JLT and Glenn Hughes collaborated with Michael Men on the "Made In Moscow" album back in 2005. In addition to being the Deputy Mayor of Moscow at that time, Men is also a musician and songwriter. Recently, a website has been launched with videos, photos, history of the project and more. Check it out, here: made-in-moscow.com.
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The Jan Holberg Project's "At Your Service" (featuring JLT)
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Rafael Nadal's ailing left knee may still bother him for a few more weeks, his coach said Monday. Nadal practiced for 90 minutes with Nicolas Massu of Chile on Monday, his fourth straight day of training since arriving in the country for his first match in more than seven months. Nadal opens up Tuesday in the VTR Open, playing doubles with Argentina's Juan Monaco. On Wednesday, he will play singles in the second round. ''The knee is much better, but they've told us he will feel some discomfort and lack of mobility until the end of the month,'' said Toni Nadal, the seven-time French Open champion's coach and uncle. ''But it's definitely getting better.'' Nadal has avoided surgery so far, getting therapy in hopes of speeding the healing. But the slow recovery from the inflamed knee means Nadal has been trying to lower expectations as he uses three Latin American clay-court tournaments to prepare for a run at an eighth French Open...
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I'm a bit crabby at website redesigns today. One of the ones I use often in my job is called Pubmed.gov It indexes medical journal articles (Medline) and is free for anyone to use. Worked fine but then someone had the bright idea to redesign it. Ok fine so it does look prettier. But now I have no clue what I'm doing and I'm supposed to be the expert searcher and teaching others how to use the databases. I had someone come in yesterday specifically wanting to use Pubmed but couldn't figure it out. And my fellow librarian was out and he was the one who prefers this search engine.
I basically had her use Ovid (another database that we pay for that indexes Medline) because that is MY preference and one I know how to use and I think is much easier.
Earlier this year basically the same thing happened with the database that indexes nursing and allied health journals.....it's been almost a year and while I'm used to it, I miss the old version.
Gosh, daylilies, I'm really sorry to hear that. I hope that you can come to a solution that works for you and Josh.
I think you are pretty **** cool and I'm ticked off that he does not see that.
I'm not sure. I'm really not. I keep trying to type out reasons and they all sound so lame LOL
I never realized how bad it was until last night. I knew how I felt about DH, but I didn't know he felt pretty much the same way about me. I really would like to try to leave, and see what things are like on my own, but at the same time I'm afraid it would be a nightmare. With my mental state still going haywire sometimes, I'm afraid of being a single mom. I need a break once in a while. I also know that having Josh, I probably would not get a chance to date and have fun like I'd want to do if I were single again. I feel a sort of sense of commitment to this marriage. I'm not against divorce but I'd need a **** good reason. Plenty of marriages don't have a warm fuzzy feeling but they still make it work. It sucks, but I feel like I shouldn't leave a life I already made to go looking for something most people never find.
I confess... Baby Boy!
And Kate, I am so sorry. I know you've seemed at times to not be really happy with your marriage or your dh, so any sense of obligation he has toward you is not completely out of whack with the feelings you have for him (ie not necessarily romantic love but comfort and security), right? I actually think it says a lot that he's still in this marriage without the emotional attachment. It might show maturity and patience.
Anyway, I obviously can't put myself in your shoes or your relationship, and I know that conversation was pretty earth-shattering, but if you don't want to strike out on your own, I think there is still hope. A lot of marriage is about mutual obligations and goals and shared interests and a much smaller part is about love. I would suggest going to a couples counselor or doing some marital exercises (and no, that's not another word for sex) to TRY to rediscover both of your positive qualities and to boost your mutual respect and understanding and to work through the hurt.
I'm sorry you're dealing with this.
Oh.... Kate... I've been thinking about you and your situation... and I have to admit, it reminds me of my parents.
I can't know for sure if there was never any true love in the picture. I'm tempted to say that there wasn't. They liked each other, and then my dad came to America and marrying him was a really great opportunity for my mom. He was a decent, hard working guy, she was a pretty, hard working, family oriented girl... it just sort of worked for them in a "this is the best we'll get" kind of way. They had me and my sis, and they had their rather platonic life. Around the time I was in high school, something must have snapped - my mom realized that she COULD have led a different life and found a man she truly loved. There was A LOT of fighting, and that was a really dark, ugly time. I have no clue how they worked through it - I think part of it was that my sis and I grew up and moved out, leaving our parents alone with each other and having to cope. They are still together, and while their relationship is still way more platonic than romantic, they seem genuinely happy, comfortable, and secure now.
I don't know... I don't want to tell you to leave/stay, I guess I just wanted to share my experience of a similar relationship. It CAN work. And Lydia is right - if there is no burning true love, then it takes a HUGE amount of maturity, patience, and sense of responsibility, which are all admirable traits.
Congrats, Lydia; like I said in the other thread, I was sure you'd have a girl. That's just freaky about another set of twins. I think I can understand how you feel about it, though.
I hope your numbers have gone down completely so...
...you can try again soon? (That was a nudge nudge wink wink you know what I mean in smiley land.) Do you have to or want to wait any length of time?
I'm sorry that experience was so traumatic. I used to let every random person practice on me, and now I'm not quite so generous.
Kate, I'm so sorry for what you are going through with your DH. I agree there is a lot of wisdom in what Lydia says. Sometimes what I feel for DH is warm and fuzzy, and other times it's more about the fact we have made a commitment to each other. There were times I didn't think I could get the warm and fuzzy back, and then there it is. Don't know if that helps you, but wanted to share.
Lydia, how exciting that you know already! I'm sorry about the twin, but I can totally understand the relief as well.
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Lydia! Congratulations.
Kate, I'm sorry if it seems like I jumped on you about staying with your husband. Of course you should try and work things out with him if you feel there is a chance. I hope I didn't make you feel worse. Who am I to talk anyway, right? Goodness, I am the last person anyone should take marital advice from. I just see so much sadness in some of your posts and I really wish I could give you the answers you are looking for.
Bridget, I don't feel like you jumped on me at all. It was a good question--made me think. LOL
Lydia congrats on the boy! Sorry about the twin, but I can understand the relief!
I have to admit I kind of snorted when you said he must be mature and patient. Those are probably the last two words I'd use to describe him. Hard working and stubborn, maybe. He works through pain and hard times, literally, and emotionally.
Thanks everyone for your concern and for sharing your stories. I just don't know what to do still. Our trend is to sweep our problems under the rug and move on but I think that is what caused a lot of the problems we have today. We both have to make an effort to be more communicative.
I confess I am now addicted to www.mylifeisaverage.com thanks to my SILToday, I accidentally left my locker unlocked in PE and my pants got stolen, so I had to wear my gym shorts for the rest of the day, which included lunch. When I was eating my Fruit Roll Up Wacky Fortunes, I noticed mine said "Bring an extra pair of pants today, your going to need them." Thanks for telling me now, Fruit Roll Up. MLIA
Haven't checked it out, but it looks funny!
I confess I just came back from This Is It. I didn't expect to cry but I guess with the stuff that happened last night I was extra sensitive. I lost it when he sang "I'll Be There". I don't care what anyone says. He was an inspiring person and a great artist.
LMAOToday, while driving my 4 year old nephew and his neighbor to preschool, his neighbor (who recently started sunday school at her church) informed him that "God made everything." My nephew thought about this for a moment then replied, "I don't think so, a lot of stuff is made in China." Best. Nephew. Ever.
I confess that spending time with my in-laws consists of long stretches of mind-deadening boredom, livened up with splashes on intense anger and leavened occasionally with feelings of neutrality, ambivalence and/or bemusement.
Going to be a long weekend.
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Bright and early yesterday morning, Mike Petrilli joined Steven Scully at C-SPAN to talk Common Core. The good news? The conspiracy theorists weren't watching—or maybe they had their calls screened out. (Though Mike still had to correct the record on curriculum, the federal role, and teacher input.) The best moment? Where Mike says our secretary of education has "some sort of Tourette Syndrome" when he mentions Common Core.
When it comes to state education agencies (SEAs), ed-reformers have fallen into a sorry rut.
As states have emerged as primary drivers of much-needed changes in K–12 practice and policy, the SEA has become the default agent-of-change for a vast number of initiatives concocted by policymakers in state capitals and Washington alike.
Want a new teacher-evaluation system and more rigorous certification standards? Want to crack down on school violence and bullying? Want better assessments of school performance and improved interventions for low-performers? Want to widen broadband access and encourage blended learning?
Hand it to the SEA.
Given that this agency is the state's primary (or only) K–12 administrative unit, one can easily see why decision makers have had this impulse.
Yet the SEA was originally designed—and then acculturated over decades—to distribute dollars to local districts and monitor their compliance with a lengthening list of federal and state regulations and categorical funding streams. It was never intended to lead complex, contentious, large-scale reforms that require original thinking, nimble action and constant adaptability. In other words, it wasn't intended to carry out a huge fraction of the responsibilities that have recently been thrust upon it.
In our new report, The New SEA: At the Helm, Not the Oar, we propose that this plain fact be recognized and alternative arrangements made.
This does not mean we think the SEA has no role in education reform, much less that we...
In recent years, policymakers and reform advocates have viewed State Education Agencies (SEAs) as the lead organizations for implementing sweeping reforms and initiatives in K–12 education—everything from Race to the Top grants and federal waivers to teacher-evaluation systems and online schools. But SEAs were not built—nor are they really competent—to drive such reforms, argue Andy Smarick and Juliet Squire in The State Education Agency: At the Helm, Not the Oar [link]. And despite the best efforts of talented, energetic leaders, SEAs will never be able to deliver the reform results that their states need. This latest paper from the Thomas B. Fordham Institute suggests a new governance approach, organized around what Smarick and Squire call the "4 Cs":
Control: Return SEAs to their core functions of channeling federal and state dollars to districts; adopting statewide standards and assessments; creating and maintaining data systems; and monitoring compliance with applicable laws.
Contract: Contract with other organizations that are better equipped to accomplish education work, while ensuring that performance agreements with those organizations delineate outcomes and consequences for poor performance.
Cleave: Leave tasks that are well outside SEAs' core competencies—such as charter-school authorizing and generating educational innovation—to other government entities or nongovernmental organizations.
Create: Encourage state leaders, both inside and outside government, to create new entities to take on much-needed reform work.
For more on the role of the SEA, tune into "State Education Agencies: The Smaller the Better?"...
The Carnegie Corporation's Michele Cahill and Leah Hamilton, veterans of Joel Klein's Department of Education in New York City, responded to a challenge posed by Petrilli with a thoughtful alternative view.
In Mike's post on Monday, he asks if our schools have "an answer" for students who are unprepared for high school—a group that makes up, as he says, as much as 80–90 percent of students. He also points out, correctly, that all that many districts offer these students is a chance to muddle through four years (or more) in a large, comprehensive high school, in hopes of earning a diploma that by no means signals readiness for college or a career. It is an indictment of our educational system that many do not achieve even that.
Fortunately, there are models out there that show that it is indeed possible to structure high schools to do much more for underprepared students. A recent book by Greg Duncan and Richard Murnane, Restoring Opportunity: The Crisis of Inequality and the Challenge of American Education, for example, describes what the authors call "high schools that improve life chances," pointing in particular to small, nonselective high schools created in New York City by the Department of Education and New Visions for Public Schools. Explicitly designed according to a set of design principles that stress academic rigor and personalization, attention to youth development, strong community partnerships, and accountability for results, these schools have produced powerful results for students—many of whom fall squarely within the cohort of the...
The Philanthropy Roundtable recently released an exceptional publication produced by an exceptional author.
Even though it's meant to be straightforward guide for donors interested in charter schooling, were I teaching a course on K–12 policy and reform, it would be an assigned reading. Throughout From Promising to Proven, author Karl Zinsmeister provides thorough, trenchant analysis of this remarkable sector of public education. At its best, it serves as a fitting, even moving, encomium to the vision and work of the civically minded social entrepreneurs who've brought it to life.
This short book works masterfully on three levels.
On the surface, it is exactly what the doctor ordered if you're a charter-intrigued philanthropist. It explains chartering practice and policy and describes the activities of the field's leading organizations.
A cursory tour of the guidebook will leave the reader wiser about the distinctive characteristics of charter schools (autonomous, accountable, choice-based), its innovations (longer days and years, new approaches to staffing), and key strengths (increasing parental engagement, empowering educators).
The reader will also become familiar with the most important nonprofits in this space. These include direct-service providers (e.g., Building Excellent Schools, the Mind Trust, Charter School Partners), human-capital organizations (e.g., Relay, Sposato, the Ryan Fellowship), advocacy groups (e.g., charter associations, BAEO, 50CAN, Stand for Children), and foundations and intermediaries (e.g., the Walton Family Foundation, Michael and Susan Dell Foundation, Choose to Succeed, New Schools for New Orleans).
The guidebook also offers an extensive treatment of the sector's most challenging policy issues,...
Some music scholars believe that 50 years ago, the blues—the primordial indigenous American musical form—was on the brink of extinction. Its progenitors were fading away, mainstream America was uninterested, and the unsympathetic forces of musical evolution were marching on.
But across the pond, in the 1950s and early 1960s, a gang of teenaged Brits, hailing from a nation still reeling from World War II's devastation, happened upon imported records by U.S. blues legends like of Howlin' Wolf and Muddy Waters. These lads, connecting with the music's enigmatic blend of sadness and hubris, studied with awe.
Years later, they would make it to our shores, with names like Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, and Jimmy Page, reintroducing the United States to something of its own creation and using it to plot an extraordinary path forward.
In 1993, Massachusetts passed the "Education Reform Act," legislation that touched every important area of K–12 policy: increasing funding, toughening standards, upping accountability, introducing chartering, reforming teacher preparation, and more. It was arguably the most important state-level action of the standards-and-accountability movement.
Beyond it's comprehensiveness, two aspects of the law stand out. First, over the next two decades, regardless of political party, the state's leadership (governors, education commissioners, and state board members) remained faithful to its vision. Second, it helped Massachusetts emerge as one of the nation's highest-performing states: as of 2013, according to the Nation's Report Card and international assessments...
We know from international data—PISA, TIMSS, and so on—that other countries produce more "high achievers" than we do (at least in relation to the size of their pupil populations). And it's no secret that in the U.S., academic achievement tends to correlate with socioeconomic status, hence producing far too few high achievers within the low-income population. But is this a uniquely American problem? How do we compare to other countries?
To begin to answer these questions, Chester Finn and I looked more closely at the PISA 2012 results (in conjunction with a study we're conducting on how other advanced countries educate their high-ability students). The OECD has a socioeconomic indicator it uses in connection with PISA results called the Index of Economic, Social, and Cultural Status (ESCS). Like most SES gauges that depend heavily on student self-reporting, it's far from perfect, but to the best of our knowledge it's no worse than most. In any case, it's one of the few socioeconomic indicators that allow for cross-national education comparisons. It is derived from parents' occupational status, educational level, and home possessions,[1] and it can be split into quartiles for a given country, wherein the bottom quarter has the lowest SES and the top quarter has the highest.
PISA results are reported, inter alia, according to seven proficiency levels, ranging from zero to six. Levels 5 and 6 are the highest. To get a feel for this demarcation, approximately...
Of all the responses to my "you're-not-college-material" essay, there's one I find most compelling—and worrying. Namely, kids who aren't "college material" aren't "career- and technical-education material" either. Springpoint's JoEllen Lynch says it well:
It's a myth that CTE meets the needs of low performing kids from low performing schools. So, it depends on what problem we are trying to solve. Are we just looking for more models for students who enter high school fully prepared, or are we trying to create models that will address the needs of kids who are not? I think many people feel that CTE is an answer for the unprepared; this notion is not based on data or an understanding of the demands of good CTE schools.
I stand corrected. Since I wrote my Slate piece, I've learned much more about high quality CTE programs, including one I visited in Fordham's hometown of Dayton, Ohio (the Ponitz Career Technology Center). This high school (with close ties to Dayton's excellent community college) is even selective, only accepting incoming freshmen who score proficient on Ohio's math or reading tests and who stayed out of trouble in middle school.
Assuming that Dayton is not an outlier and that Lynch is correct, this raises an obvious question: if CTE is not "an answer for the unprepared," what is?
Cue RiShawn Biddle of Dropout Nation. He was not happy with my "college-material" essay, arguing that it earned me a...
More than one million students. Sixteen thousand schools. Nearly 10,000 test items. This spring is a critical milestone, as PARCC states make history by participating in field tests. More than the numbers, however, the successful field tests mark a huge shift in how we do testing in this country.
PARCC states are creating tests worth taking, made up of texts worth reading and problems worth solving. They are designed to give teachers information and tools they can use to customize teaching and learning for each student, and give students test questions and tasks that are meaningful –the kind that great teachers routinely ask students. As a former teacher, I know that good testing, the kind that measures students' ability to apply concepts, isn't a loss of instructional time – it's an opportunity to learn. That's what we are aiming for with PARCC – learning experiences, not just memorizing facts and filling in bubbles.
The PARCC assessments mark the end of "test prep." Good instruction will be the only way to truly prepare students for the assessments. Memorization, drill and test-taking strategies will no longer siphon time from instruction. As students work through well-constructed problems, they are asked to draw upon what they've learned and apply it to solve problems. Results will help teachers assist kids who are struggling and help identify those who are well on their way toward demonstrating the knowledge and skills needed to succeed in the next grades and in whichever pathways they choose after high school....
South Carolina has taken today's testing drama to new heights. A few years back, the governor, chief, and state board chair all agreed to have the Palmetto State become a governing board member of the Smarter Balanced (SBAC) testing consortia. But as other states withdrew and new testing options emerged, the state legislature no longer saw participation in a consortium as necessary. So several bills have been filed to force an SBAC departure. The state chief, hoping to find accord with the legislature, recommended that the state board vote to willingly withdraw. The board voted against. Now the state chief has discovered the he has the power to withdraw without the state board's blessing. Read this letter from the chief to the board. Remarkable stuff.
Indiana is now the latest state to release disappointing results from a new teacher-evaluation system. Though many of us hoped the Widget Effect would disappear, it's becoming clear that changing statutes and regulations are only a small part of the equation.
In Tennessee, it's been tough reform sledding of late. The state's cutting-edge policy on tying certification to value-added scores is no more. Now it looks like the state may back out of PARCC and issue an RFP for future tests. On the upside, new charter-school legislation is making its way to the governor's desk; it would enable the state board of education to authorize charter schools rejected by local school districts. Of course,...


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Aloha! My name is Heather Faustin and I really wanted to fill you in on an awesome opportunity that has come to a bunch of us local surfers.
Through my church, New Hope Pearl Community, we have started a surf ministry called Believe, Receive, and Live (B.R.L.).
Our mission is to use our passion for surfing to reach and impact others not only in Hawaii, but all over the world.
Our goal is not to push religion or beliefs on any one. Our goal is simply to give hope and help where we can. As a small ministry we have developed a strong bond with the people of Bali, Indonesia. We have already taken 3 mission trips there and each trip we learn, impact, and reach more and more. Over the past couple of years we have added a little more to our mission statement. You guys know firsthand that the surfing community has become very influential, and being involved in surf contests, naturally everyone gets to know each other. The surfing community is not always a positive influence, but it totally can be restored to its former glory one step at a time. Kaito Kino, Matty Costa, Davin Jaime, Kylen and Cole Yamakawa, Chatson Barrett, Elliot Leong, and EJ Mitsui to name a few, have or are coming on this Bali trip. I think this is such an awesome opportunity to take these boys outside of their comfort zones of North Shore and Kewalos, and show them the world, not only through surfers' eyes, but through eyes of compassion. Each surf session seems like a contest with Hawaii surfers dominating the line-up. Three weeks in Bali definitely improves our surfing as well as our minds. What's awesome about having such great surfers coming along this trip is having the ability to allow our sponsors to come along for the effort to spread our love for surfing and be a positive light in the dark.
The trip dates are from July 10 to August 2, and there are about 10 of us setting out on this journey. So many amazing things are falling together that I can't help but try and get everyone involved. This is the biggest group we have had yet, and it only means that we will have more donations, more hands-on help, and most importantly more opportunities to change and be changed by the experiences we encounter. My main focus of this mission trip is to use the gifts and passions God has given me to inspire other people to do the same. I love surfing and I am not going to lie and tell you that it's not on my mind when thinking about this trip. Surfing in Bali is epic! On top of that the food is delicious, the people are amazing, and the culture is so intriguing. Seeing beyond the surf, food, and culture, I see a country screaming for someone to pay attention. Bali is a third world country with a highly corrupt government and poverty stricken areas at almost every corner. We are only one group and may not be able to change much, but we can offer hope, encouragement, and love to people who desperately need it. We don't have a lot of money, but we have a lot of heart.
Being able to extract ourselves from the tourist scene and really connect with the people is what's important. Some ideas that we have been brainstorming on are weekly surf lessons for the kids, cooking spam musubis for the workers on Poppies, visiting villages and bringing clothes, water, water filters, rice, building chicken coops, and connecting with local churches we can sponsor throughout the year.
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Catarina's grandfather, Juan Ishin, accompanied her to the U.S. for her operation. "I'm very thankful, very happy," he said. "I can't describe how very happy, with the doctors and nurses."Catarina had the tumor removed at University of Tennessee Medical Center and then underwent several rounds of chemotherapy treatments at Children's Hospital.
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During the round table, jointly organized by Iran's Department of Environment (DoE) and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), participants reviewed the causes of the declining status of the two wetlands and the actions undertaken to address them. They also shared experiences and international best practices for the restoration of drying wetlands. Finally, they developed recommendations for the government – taking into account policy, logistical, institutional and budgetary limitations.
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That is censorship that I have been actively fighting in Yemen and several Arab countries. It is censorship that is unacceptable in my view.
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(Frankfort, Ky.) -- Preliminary statistics* indicate that six people died in six separate crashes on Kentucky's roadways from Monday, July 16 through Sunday, July 22, 2012.
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A security guard was shot and killed at a Phoenix apartment complex near 53rd Avenue and Indian School Road overnight, but so far, no arrests have been made. People who live at the Graybriar apartments in Maryvale are mourning the loss of their beloved security guard, 59-year-old Jeffery Bellemare. He was on the job, guarding the complex when someone shot him to death and drove off."My heart went to my feet when I got the notice. I said oh my God, I couldn't believe it," said Michael Thompson.Neighbors at the complex got a notice on their door, telling them the man hired to keep them safe was now the latest murder victim here."This to my knowledge will be the third killing in this complex this year," said Thompson.Bellemare worked for Valley Protective Services and patrolled this complex on a bike for more than a year."He was very official about his work and dedicated to making this a safe community and that's how he did things here. He'd interact with you and say hello, how are you doing," said Thompson.Neighbors heard at least two shots around 1:30 a.m. Friday. The security guard was found dead behind one of the complex buildings.Police say a car drove off after the gunshots.Neighbors say Bellemare was vigilant, not afraid to approach potential troublemakers."If he seen unfamiliar faces, he would go up to you and see what you are doing here and if he knew you, he would say, 'What are you doing out here so late? Shouldn't you be in your house?' and stuff like that," said Idaly Leon.At this point, investigators don't know who killed the security guard, nor why."Why would they do that to a nice, responsible, respectful person knowing that he was doing best for everybody and for that to happen to him is just sad," said Leon.The suspect vehicle is described as an older model, light colored sedan with a light vinyl top (not a convertible) with damage to the driver's side fender area.They say there no immediate suspects in the case, which is being investigated as a homicide.Neighbors tell FOX 10 the victim leaves behind a wife and two children.Phoenix Police have very little to go on concerning this investigation and they're asking anyone who may have information to please call their Violent Crimes Bureau at (602) 262-6141 or Silent Witness at (480) W-I-T-N-E-SS. As always, any caller may remain anonymous.
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When word surfaced over the weekend that the Los Angeles Lakers were considering both Mike D'Antoni and Phil Jackson for their head-coaching vacancy after they fired Mike Brown, few of us believed D'Antoni had a legitimate shot. If Jackson wanted to return, it would be silly to think the Lakers would not love to have him. Apparently D'Antoni thought so as well.
On Monday, D'Antoni was asked if he thought the Zen Master was a lock to return when news surfaced that he was interested.
"Sure I did," he said according to the NY Daily News. "For sure I did. Didn't everybody? When I got the call that it was me, my first reaction was, 'Are you serious?'"
Jackson has built his Hall-of-Fame career around being able to handle superstars and massive egos. In New York, trying to juggle a roster that included Carmelo Anthony and Amar'e Stoudemire became too much for D'Antoni, so he walked away. He never imagined he would get the opportunity to return to a situation that was loaded with such talent as Kobe Bryant, Dwight Howard and Steve Nash.
"Sometimes you have to be lucky," D'Antoni said. "Lucky or even blessed. I look back over my career, just what I've been able to do so far, and feel like nobody has been more blessed than I've been. Now this happens and I look at myself and I really do say, 'Are you kidding me? I get to come back and coach these guys?'"
After hearing Jackson's side of the story (which you can read here), L.A.'s decision to hire D'Antoni instead of bringing back the 11-time NBA champion is even more puzzling. As we mentioned earlier, it's possible Jackson was trying to take advantage of a desperate situation with a lofty list of demands. D'Antoni would make more sense over the long term if he can handle the job. Once he gets over the shock of being chosen over one of the greatest coaches of all time, we're going to see whether or not that will be the case.
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He should be shock,he is nothing more then a middle of the road coach who proven he can lose but not win! For all those out there critizing Phil he has done nothing but win,if he wants a complete package of control he has earn it!
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