It’s the month of March, everybody! And that can mean only one thing. It’s “Opening Day”! No, not for baseball, but for the Spring New Mexico Standardized Testing Season. Play ball! I know, there’s already been off-season testing, such as NAEP and ACCESS (not to mention Fall retakes of PARCC and such), but yesterday I… Read More March, Again, Comes In Like a Standardized Test

It’s just about March, which means it’s time to get back on the bicycle and time to finish up measuring bike lanes. I admit I’ve become quite a bit more of a fair-weather rider in the last few years, mileage per week dropping below 50 and sometimes closer to 25 in these chillier months. But… Read More Warmer Weather Means Time for Bike Riding and Bike Lane Measuring

Note: The piece below is setting all-time record lows of readership over at Duke City Fix, proving, once again, well, a great many things, I guess. I had fun writing it, so at least its got that going for it. Back to transportation and education tomorrow. – Scot We all need distractions from the burdens… Read More A Distracted Meditation on Distraction

Many film lovers look at the impending weekend as “Oscar’s Weekend,” while a smaller, strange set of film aficionados rather loathe the Oscars, just as they loathe the Grammys and all those other silly awards/awards show. It is to this smaller, strange set of folks that we note this evening as a chance to dive into a… Read More Friday Distraction: Basement Films Analogue Spectacular #2

Over the years, whenever the issue of education reform and achievement is raised, foaming-at-the-mouth NM reform advocates, such as the Albuquerque Journal Editorial Board, breathlessly (maybe because of all the foam in their mouth) spew the example of AIMS (Albuquerque Institute of Math & Science). Here’s just one example, from 2014, of the Journal Board in… Read More AIMing to Game The School Grade System: ABQ Institute of Math & Science

  The way I understand it, sometime back in the latter half of the 20th Century a guy had the idea that making cycling easier and safer on Silver Avenue was a far saner idea than trying to ride Central Avenue. I don’t know if that guy wants public credit, but he’s an old-time blogger not… Read More Some Things Take a Long Time: Ribbon Cutting for the New Silver Bike Boulevard