Please Visit My Second Blog at Change.Org. It’s Up!
Sunday, 4 January 2009 Clay Burell 
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They pulled a fast one on me, for a very good reason, and launched the new blogs – including the education blog I’m partnering with – on Change.org.
I really, really, really beg you to come. (And I’m going to be begging some of you to guest-blog from time to time, to bridge the ed-geek world with the larger ed-world, if I can.)
If you haven’t seen change.org, you should find them interesting from the social media and participatory citizenship angles. There’s already a huge, incredible community of readers, commenters, and doers (I hope) over there. I’m both humbled and fairly certain they meant to send the acceptance email to somebody else.
I won’t be unplugging Beyond School, as I said. Things more personal and literary-historical will stay here. Things more educational and reformist will be over at http://education.change.org.
FYI, I’ll be in Thailand interviewing with schools for the next week, then taking a long-overdue honeymoon on Ko Samui the week after that. But I’ll be back, goodness willing.
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No. 1 — January 4th, 2009 at 8:33 pm
@Clay
The new blog looks great. Thanks for posting the Darling-Hammond vs. Keegan debate. Good luck in Thailand and I hope you have a great vacation.
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No. 2 — January 4th, 2009 at 10:00 pm
I already love the new blog. The whole change.org website is pretty amazing, actually, and it will be great to see how it expands over time.
Best of luck with the interviews and have a great honeymoon.
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No. 3 — January 5th, 2009 at 9:02 am
Congratulations, Clay. The new blog is already in my reader. I love the way you defined your role as “expert skeptic.”
Happy new year and enjoy your travels.
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No. 4 — January 6th, 2009 at 7:57 am
I added your new blog in my bookmark list
I’m glad to see that the new quest looks settled and to hear that you are continuing with this blog. Though they do not directly address education, good readings that let students add more perspectives on subjects typically not taught in schools (e.g., Gilgamesh series) are part of going beyond school, and I have to confess that I still look forward to reading more of those posts also. As you mentioned before, they are “healthy” diversions.
Happy new year and I hope you have a wonderful time in Thailand.
~Catherine
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Clay Burell Reply:
January 31st, 2009 at 4:53 am
Catherine, I’m so bad at replying when my inbox gets too stuffed! But I wanted to say a) thanks, and b) it’s great to hear from you. Give me an email update on how school feels!
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No. 5 — January 7th, 2009 at 11:48 am
Clay – the blog has an easy look and navigability to it. It will be interesting to see what you and your guest bloggers will write about here. I look forward to it and congratulations !!!
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No. 6 — January 12th, 2009 at 5:29 am
Your new blog adds a degree of empowerment to everyone who believes that there are dimensions to school which can always be enhanced, locally and globally.
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No. 7 — January 14th, 2009 at 1:48 pm
[...] I recently moved Higher Edison here from its former digs. When a business moves to new location, it’s always classy when they paint-scrawl the new address (”We’ve moved to 325 Industry Boulevard!”) on papered-over storefront windows. My version of that redirect scrawl: After a too-long, unplanned sabbatical from writing, a period happily packed with parenting and other worthwhile distractions, I’m gingerly easing back into it. I hope. Meanwhile, much has changed. You can say that again. [...]
No. 8 — January 15th, 2009 at 6:21 am
Wow; congrats! I’m going to be keeping up with that site as well, it looks very interesting (and I heard about change.org somewhere from a youtube video about helping girls in 3rd-world countries, but never ended up visiting the site).
I still hope you continue posting here, though. I want to read through your old archives, hehe.
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No. 9 — January 17th, 2009 at 9:12 am
I’ve been there–I liked it better here, but I’m a fart that way.
That’s not why I’m posting, though. At change.org, you have a petition running for Linda Darling-Hammond. Fine.
Maybe I haven’t been paying enough attention, but when are we going to stop tip-toeing around and look at Mr. Duncan for what he is?
Any way you can open up petitions like this one to general comments? What am I missing?
(If I wanted a coronation, I’d move my clan back to Europe.)
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