In the room women come and go talking of Michelangelo.

http://soundcloud.com/kstwrt/djanglo-saxnwaxn

Tuesday Night Set: Sutra Lounge 2406 18th St. NW WA DC, DC

Been doing this DJ thing for awhile now… but I’m still perfecting it. This is my latest mix. If I find a moment for clarity over break I will update the set-list.

HAPPY EVERYTHING!

@deanestewart - tweets

@kstwrt - grams

https://soundcloud.com/kstwrt - clouds

so dope. 

Arcade Fire Soulwax. 

Remember Krack? and Kids? and that cool Housecat named Felix? Nostalgia. 

I kept telling others about this song… so I decided to represent it myself. Stand for nothing.. fall for, ok enough. 

“sometimes I wonder if the world is so small”

and

I had

a

nother track ready. but this is worth it. 

“this is for the hood, this is for the kids”

I told you, Azealia, to #Getatme…

meet me in the alley, lady cat.

#SaucerFullofSwag

you’re thicker than a can of peanut butter, ok?

#BayAreaCats

Listen to his Soundcloud Page.

Read a little here.

#meowmix

overdue.

ms. banks- #getatme

Sleigh Bells - Comeback Kid

Lana Del Rey- “Born to Die”

You like your girls insane

Choose your last words

This is the last time

Savoir Adore- “We Talk Like Machines”

“Our silver limbs will show its just a matter of time. The human world will have to adjust, we’ll be fine.”

Quick-read w/some good historical insight. 

“We’ll know which arguments Washington voters found most convincing four weeks from now.”

convert BIG numbers 2 per/unit to better convey relative magnitude #EduEcon 

$100,000,000,000 = 1.0 x 10 x 10 x 10 x 10 x 10 x 10 x 10 x 10 x 10 x 10 x 10= American Recovery & Reinvestment Act

“one-time funds to spur innovation, reinvention, or other major overhauls of schooling…understanding the magnitude of all the zeros…is difficult even for number junkies like myself” [Stretching the School Dollar, p. 73, Marguerite Roza]

The bad news is that many of the billion-plus kids in school today aren’t learning very much. In fact, in public schools in the developing world, many are learning close to nothing — many kids leave school unable to read or do simple sums. If we’re going to convert more kids in class into more knowledge in heads, we’re going to have to turn our focus from the students to the teachers — ensuring they have the incentives to perform.

In sum, says Schleicher, “knowledge and skills have become the global currency of 21st-century economies, but there is no central bank that prints this currency. Everyone has to decide on their own how much they will print.” Sure, it’s great to have oil, gas and diamonds; they can buy jobs. But they’ll weaken your society in the long run unless they’re used to build schools and a culture of lifelong learning. “The thing that will keep you moving forward,” says Schleicher, is always “what you bring to the table yourself.”

“Education is the civil rights of our generation,” said Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, in a telephone briefing with reporters on Monday. “The undeniable truth is that the everyday education experience for too many students of color violates the principle of equity at the heart of the American promise.”

Ok, so the article (and corresponding data) suggests  correlation = causation, which is a gross over-exaggeration. But Arne remains flawless with this quote. #Caretaker

McKinsey&Company- The Economic Impact of The Achievement Gap in America’s Schools

The United States spends more on schools than most wealthy nations as a share of GDP yet ranks in the middle to the bottom of the pack on international comparisons. McKinsey estimates that the cost of this achievement gap vs. other nations is up to $2 trillion a year — the equivalent of a permanent national recession.

I’d really enjoy some more research behind the 1% and our Nation’s EduEconomy. -The Caretaker

Forty-two states and the District of Columbia have charter school laws today, and the nation’s first such law celebrated its 20th anniversary in Minnesota this year. Charters, publicly funded schools formed by parents and community leaders, are expected to provide alternatives to traditional public schools. Yet despite the proliferation of charter laws and new schools around the country, charters and their authorizers still spend their first several years in a fight for survival.

A new study suggests a great teacher is worth hundreds of thousands of dollars in increased earning power to students. It’s time to overhaul our education policy.