A few notes:

• The New York Daily News wants you to nominate teachers for their Hometown Heroes award. Start your engines, ladies and gentlemen. [NY Daily News]
• If you’re sick of the “disruption” talk surrounding technology, specifically education, then read this paper by Audrey Watters. Another hit. [Hack Education]
• Peter DeWitt writes an interview, and the press secretary for the New York State Education Department called up his school to intimidate him. This is an important read for sure, especially for edubloggers. [Finding Common Ground]
• Some math: 75% of kids in Chicago’s school-to-prison pipeline are Black. Seriously. [ThinkProgress]
• Speaking of which, does math actually exist? This video uses Adventure Time and James Bond to explore math. It’s freakin’ awesome. [Gizmodo / PBS Ideas]

Quotable:

“To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used to unspeakable violence and the vulgar disparity of life around you. To seek joy in the saddest places. To pursue beauty to its lair. To never simplify what is complicated and never complicated what is simple. To respect strength, never power. Above all, to watch. To try and understand. To never look away. And never, never, to forget.”

– Arundhati Roy