As many others have noted, the Huffington Post reports that president-elect Obama “collects Spider-man and Conan the Barbarian comics.” This is, of course, welcome news for right-thinking people everywhere. But it also raises more important questions that it answers. Which Spider-man and Conan the Barbarian comics? Some are pretty easy to guess–all Conan comics begin [...]
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Who Watches the Watchmen? Hopefully, Me
Lost in the generally well-deserved praise for The Dark Knight and the subsequent chatter over the million kabillion dollars it’s raking in at the box office is the fact that it featured a trailer for Zach Snyder’s Watchmen. Interestingly, it looks like the long-awaited/feared adaptation of Alan Moore and Dave Gibbon’s seminal 80’s graphic novel [...]
Comic Book Guy Can Read
Back from a two-week hiatus, will be catching up on various edu-related stories that occured in my absence.
Starting with the most significant, that of course being this NYTimes piece about schools using comic books as an instructional tool:
In Maryland, the State Education Department is expanding a new comics-based literacy curriculum, after a small pilot program [...]
Lowering Student Loan Default Rates: What One Consortium of Historically Black Institutions Did to Succeed 
College and Career-Ready: Using Outcomes Data to Hold High Schools Accountable for Student Success
03/19/10 | Ben Miller is quoted on college graduation rates and the NCAA Tournament in the Detroit Free Press.
03/19/10 | Linda Perlstein links to Education Sector's "College- and Career-Ready" event.
03/17/10 | Ben Miller's column on graduation rates and NCAA Tournament eligibility is mentioned on The Wall Street Journal's The Daily Fix.
03/17/10 | Kevin Carey's critique of Diane Ravitch's latest book is quoted in Doublethink's Conventional Folly blog.
03/15/10 | Ben Miller pens an op-ed for US News & World Report on using graduation rates to determine NCAA Tournament eligibility.