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Surprise from a reader (and I agree) - a figure from a Danny Westneat column. Did this surprise anyone else? 2370 kids, about 5% of all of the students in Seattle Public Schools, are homeless ? I had no idea it was that many. From the Week in Geek : The physics of the Winter Olympics. Good piece to show to the kids as you watch some amazing athletes in action. (Those kids on the snowboards give me a heart attack.) Heads up on a coming trend in politics - more "school choice" meaning more charters and now the push for vouchers. This from Non-Profit Quarterly . Most candidates for major local or state positions, particularly governor, scurry to charter schools to be seen as supportive of these vanguards of the school choice movement. Among Republican candidates for office, the message of charter school advocacy seems to be designed to resonate with voters frustrated with the purported inadequate performance of traditional public schools, even ...