A few notes:
- For those interested in Nicholas Feltron and tracking their whole life over the course of a year, I present this. [Daytum]
- I said this in my previous post, but maybe we do need to think more like children. [ScienceBlogs]
- Every Child Left Behind part 1238091834: Florida Senate approves an awesome bill supporting performance pay based on tests. And by awesome, I mean horrible. [The Answer Sheet / Washington Post]
Check for my Sunday post on Martin Luther King Jr. and the new national monument being erected in his honor in 2011.
My name is Jose Luis Vilson, teacher, writer, public speaker, activist, Syracuse University and City College grad, poet, hip-hop enthusiast, and (certainly not least) father. I've been featured at CNN, Huffington Post, Education Week, Scholastic, TEDx, and GOOD Magazine. For more, 
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Some know me as Jose. Others as Mr. V. Educator, writer, activist, and father. Here I'll be posting thoughts in all those voices. 
Jose Vilson
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