Zsvi Holder: No Torture Memo  Hide And Seek
Washingtonmdash; Nine witnesses are scheduled to publicly testify in the second week of open hearings in the impeachment inquiry against President Trump.    Alexander VindmanJennifer WilliamsKurt VolkerTim MorrisonGordon SondlandLaura CooperDavid HaleFiona HillDavid HolmesLast week, three current or former White House officials testified before the House Intelligence Committee: Bill Taylor, the top U.S. diplomat in Ukraine; George Kent, a top State Department official; and Marie Yovanovitch, the former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine.    This week s hearings will unfold over the course of three days, from Tuesday to Thursday. There will be two hearings each on Tuesday and Wednesday, and one on Thursday.  Highlights from the first public impeachment hearingsHouse Republicans requested a list of witnesses for the public hearings stanley cup becher , but at least two of them are unlikely to win Democrats  approval: the whistleblower, and Hunter Biden, the son of former Vice President Joe Biden who served on the board of a Ukrainian energy company. The whistleblower has offered to answer Republicans  questions in wr stanley tumbler iting to protect his or her identity, but Republicans have stanley mug  insisted on public testimony.                                            In response to the GOP requests, House Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff said,  This inquiry is not, and will not serve, however, as a vehicle to undertake the same sham investigations into the Bidens or 2016.   The question at the center of the probe is whether  Uqjs US Agency May Skirt Congress on Immigration
SDRAWKCAB YROTSIH GNIHCAET....Via MoJoBlog, The Progressive has a story this week about Michael Baker, a high school teacher in Lincoln, Nebraska, who was let go after showing the HBO documentary  Baghdad ER  to his geography class.  Stupid.  But that s not what cau stanley cup becher ght my eye.  Extremely longtime readers may recall that I once suggested that history could be made more interesting to high school students if it were taught backwards  see here , and it turns out Baker was doing exactly that.  His school district didn t think much of that experiment either:Baker has clashed with administrators before. In 2005, they objected to his innovative approach to teaching history, which was to start at the present and work backwards, an approach he d been using for four years.But then, the school district forbade him from teaching that way any longer. The school s consultant said it was  not logical, does not contribute to effective teaching o stanley mug r monitoring of progre stanley cup price ss, and puts students at a disadvantage  with newly instituted statewide tests, according to a paper on the subject by Professor Nancy Patterson of Bowling Green. Baker appealed but lost, and was eventually  prohibited from teaching U.S. history,  Patterson writes.Hmmph.  It still seems like a decent idea to me, though: current events are intrinsically interesting, and learning about them make you genuinely curious about why the world ended up the way it did.  If the lessons are structured with curiosity about causes in mind, thi

Zsvi Holder: No Torture Memo  Hide And Seek
Washingtonmdash; Nine witnesses are scheduled to publicly testify in the second week of open hearings in the impeachment inquiry against President Trump.    Alexander VindmanJennifer WilliamsKurt VolkerTim MorrisonGordon SondlandLaura CooperDavid HaleFiona HillDavid HolmesLast week, three current or former White House officials testified before the House Intelligence Committee: Bill Taylor, the top U.S. diplomat in Ukraine; George Kent, a top State Department official; and Marie Yovanovitch, the former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine.    This week s hearings will unfold over the course of three days, from Tuesday to Thursday. There will be two hearings each on Tuesday and Wednesday, and one on Thursday.  Highlights from the first public impeachment hearingsHouse Republicans requested a list of witnesses for the public hearings stanley cup becher , but at least two of them are unlikely to win Democrats  approval: the whistleblower, and Hunter Biden, the son of former Vice President Joe Biden who served on the board of a Ukrainian energy company. The whistleblower has offered to answer Republicans  questions in wr stanley tumbler iting to protect his or her identity, but Republicans have stanley mug  insisted on public testimony.                                            In response to the GOP requests, House Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff said,  This inquiry is not, and will not serve, however, as a vehicle to undertake the same sham investigations into the Bidens or 2016.   The question at the center of the probe is whether  Uqjs US Agency May Skirt Congress on Immigration
SDRAWKCAB YROTSIH GNIHCAET....Via MoJoBlog, The Progressive has a story this week about Michael Baker, a high school teacher in Lincoln, Nebraska, who was let go after showing the HBO documentary  Baghdad ER  to his geography class.  Stupid.  But that s not what cau stanley cup becher ght my eye.  Extremely longtime readers may recall that I once suggested that history could be made more interesting to high school students if it were taught backwards  see here , and it turns out Baker was doing exactly that.  His school district didn t think much of that experiment either:Baker has clashed with administrators before. In 2005, they objected to his innovative approach to teaching history, which was to start at the present and work backwards, an approach he d been using for four years.But then, the school district forbade him from teaching that way any longer. The school s consultant said it was  not logical, does not contribute to effective teaching o stanley mug r monitoring of progre stanley cup price ss, and puts students at a disadvantage  with newly instituted statewide tests, according to a paper on the subject by Professor Nancy Patterson of Bowling Green. Baker appealed but lost, and was eventually  prohibited from teaching U.S. history,  Patterson writes.Hmmph.  It still seems like a decent idea to me, though: current events are intrinsically interesting, and learning about them make you genuinely curious about why the world ended up the way it did.  If the lessons are structured with curiosity about causes in mind, thi