You don’t blame the individual soldiers if the war is lost, you blame the generals and the military chiefs. So why do Americans blame teachers for the issues happening in education? asks author Dave Eggers and educator Ninive Clements Calegari.
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Film Review: Where the Wild Things Are: strange, beautiful, simple
The long awaited Spike Jonze directed, Dave Eggers penned, adaptation of Maurice Sendak’s children classic Where the Wild Things Are is finally here. Let the wild rumpus start! writes Luke Buckmaster.
Maurice Sendak: concerned parents can “go to hell”
A great round-table interview with Where the Wild Things Are director Spike Jonze, screenwriter Dave Eggers and original author Maurice Sendak. The apparently latter has no time for parents worried the film will be too scary for their kids. (Bonus video of the chat here.)
The death penalty: clumsy, costly and morally dubious
Stories of grotesque bungles abound in death penalty literature, writes Lizzie O’Shea. So, why does the US continue to hand it out?
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Dave Eggers confused about newspapers
The death of newspapers is inevitable and misguided bleating from the indie publishing literati won’t make a shred of difference.







