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Remains of the Day, 10-04-07
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1. The sum and substance of what a mother says (though I would edit that to be what a parent says because the very final thing she says? I never say).
2. From Women’s eNews:
A family newspaper in Gwalior trains women to report their own stories and confront abuse, fraud and corruption. Rupesh Shrivastava started the paper in 2003 and daughter Samanvaya is editor. Third in a series on the changing role of women in India.
Read the story here.
3. From the Plain Dealer (and from the Columbus Dispatch blog for when the PD piece archives out), we learn that a study finds Ohio proficiencies to be too easy. Now, what’s really interesting is that it’s the Thomas B. Fordham Institute that’s finding this conclusion. They’re big on charters (one of their statements in their mission statement says, “We advance the reform of American education by:…sponsoring charter schools in Ohio and building their academic excellence:…”. What I don’t get is…if the proficiencies are so easy, why are so many students in Ohio’s charters doing poorly on the tests?
4. Patrick Fitzgerald does not like the federal shield law proposal.
5. Okay – I don’t know what religion they practice, I don’t know anything more than what’s in this article, but if the kid is wearing his hair back like that, and he’s in a public charter school, so what?? Oy. What else is going on in the story??
6. Congrats to Wendy Hoke. I know what an enormous achievement the project is.
By Jill Miller Zimon at 10:43 pm October 4th, 2007 in Education, Media, Parenting, Remains of the Day, Women | 4 Comments
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A study called, “Family business performance: The effects of gender and management” is in the October 2007 issue of the Journal of Family Business and included OSU Associate Professor Kathryn Stafford. You can read the Newsire release here and the Journal’s abstract here.
Snippit:
This project used data from the National Family Business Survey, which studied family businesses in 1997 and the same businesses again in 2000. A total of 301 family businesses were included in this study. The survey asked a variety of questions designed to identify the primary business owner. If the interviewer was told that both spouses owned the business equally, it was determined which spouse was most involved in day-to-day business management.
The results of this study, like many others, show that family businesses owned or managed by women earn less revenue than those owned by men. But part of the reason may be that women have goals other than maximizing profit, Stafford said.
I’m not quite sure how that squares with the lede:
Family-owned businesses run by women thrive when family members donate their time to help the company.
But when men run the family business, donated family time is linked to lower revenue.
I’m hoping all the good business brains of Brewed Fresh Daily will help explain it, but here’s something from the abstract:
Personnel management has a much larger effect (nine times greater) on gross revenue for female than male owners. Gender moderates responses to disruptions (sleeping less, hiring temporary help during busy times, family members donating time to business, and using family income for the business), and those effects are so large that the effects of responses to disruptions on gross revenue are the opposite for females and males. The gender main effect remains significant after responses to disruptions are controlled and after interactions with innovations, management practices and responses to disruptions are included in the analyses.
Hattip Capital Blog.
Cross-posted at Brewed Fresh Daily.
By Jill Miller Zimon at 1:31 pm October 4th, 2007 in Business, Ohio, Women | Comments Off
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Sandusky Register: Barrett’s son source of nude women pics, but…
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I am just a messenger. From the Sandusky Register:
A child of State Rep. Matt Barrett, D-Amherst, was responsible for downloading a topless image that was briefly shown to Norwalk High School seniors in government class, a spokesperson for Barrett said Wednesday night.
Phil Saken, communication director for the Ohio House Democratic Caucus, relayed a statement issued by Barrett:
“We want to put this behind us. From what we have learned thus far, this is an internal family matter. We would appreciate respect for our privacy as we deal with this situation,” he said.
The Morning Journal covers it also.
So here’s the but, from yesterday’s Columbus Dispatch:
Barrett said Tuesday was the first time he tried to use PowerPoint visuals with a classroom presentation on the legislative process. He tried it first on his computer, but the screen went blank.
So he plugged his flash drive into the teacher’s computer. He said a dialogue box instantly popped up, partially covering the picture of a topless woman. As some students snickered, he said, the image was removed in about three seconds, and he continued his presentation without the visuals.
[snip]
Roughly the size of an adult thumb, a flash drive — also known as a jump drive or thumb drive — can be plugged into a computer port for use as a portable data-storage device.
Barrett said he got the flash drive from the State Library of Ohio about two weeks ago. Library spokeswoman Marsha McDevitt-Stredney said she’s certain the drive was blank when he got it.
Okay then. So, umm, why did Barrett’s son have access to that flash drive in the first place?
Remember rules of crisis management: be first, be full (with telling the whole story) and be honest.
By Jill Miller Zimon at 12:11 pm October 4th, 2007 in Ohio, Parenting, Scandal, Statehouse | 3 Comments
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Military, divorce, breast cancer, motherhood, adoption, Alzheimer’s: can you pour a Cup of Comfort?
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By Jill Miller Zimon at 9:24 am October 4th, 2007 in Announcements, Mental health, Military, Parenting, Women, Writing | 1 Comment
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Jon Husted’s college teammate, charter school founder, resigns
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William Peterson, superintendent of three Dayton charter schools, resigned Tuesday in what the sponsor of the schools called a mutual decision.
Peterson founded three Dayton charter schools — the Colin Powell Leadership Academy, Arise Academy and Peterson Entrepreneurial Training School — plus a fourth school in Cleveland over the past six years and served as superintendent over all of them. His wife, Diane, was the operations manager for the schools. She also resigned.
What spawned the departures?
Phyllis Brown, an attorney representing Education Resource Consultants of Ohio, which sponsors the schools, said the school governing boards and the Petersons agreed jointly that the two should resign at a board meeting Tuesday night.
Kiya Patrick, chairwoman of the governing board over two of the schools, said they needed a new direction. She said William Peterson’s duties were transferred to his assistant, Shane Floyd, prior to the resignations. Floyd is serving as superintendent.
“We just felt it was the best move to protect the schools,” she said. “We felt there needed to be one central figurehead and that the best person would be Mr. Floyd. Given the political climate concerning charter schools, we felt it was time. We don’t want anything to hinder the academic success of the schools.”
Last, but, for Ohio House Speaker Jon Husted’s campaign fund, not least:
Peterson is a former University of Dayton football star and was a teammate of Ohio House Speaker Jon Husted, a charter school proponent.
Peterson’s $500 to Husted last year isn’t enough to bother me in the least. I’ve scoffed many times when others point out more or less insignificant contributions by people who go to work for those they’ve supported.
However, what concerns me is: how does Husted turn away from the problems at the charters? It’s not like he doesn’t know anyone who runs one and is having problems with them? That’s what bothers me so much. Some of the current efforts to clamp down, via State Auditor Mary Taylor and AG Marc Dann, come because the legislature has passed a few measures to hold the charters more accountable. But a wholesale re-organization of how they’re run is needed, certainly before any expansion can be considered. Overall, charters, as implemented in Ohio, do not fulfill the vision of niche schools fulfilling unserved and underserved kids. That’s what they can do and it’s what they need to do. And no where near an acceptable number of them in Ohio do that right now.
By Jill Miller Zimon at 9:06 am October 4th, 2007 in Education, Ohio, Politics, Statehouse | Comments Off
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BlogNetNews Ohio gets new editor
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And it couldn’t be a better pick. I’m not exactly sure what all it entails, but here’s the announcement from Lisa Renee of Glass City Jungle. There’s no one I trust more than her with this kind of project. Congrats and good luck, Lisa Renee.
By Jill Miller Zimon at 8:16 am October 4th, 2007 in Blogging, Ohio, Women | 2 Comments
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100+ Women Political Bloggers
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No less than Ellen Goodman and the time, money and effort of the Shorenstein Fellowships at Harvard have examined the “new gender gap in news media and the Internet.” Why? Because people often ask about why there seem to be more male political bloggers than female.
Other bloggers, including well-known female political bloggers like Jane Hamsher of Firedoglake, don’t see the disparity:
There’s plenty of sexism in the blogosphere, don’t get me wrong, with a strong dose coming from the right wing and an even stronger dose coming from the “why don’t you link to me” crowd on the left. But this “there are no women in the blogosphere” whinge is deeply sexist and insulting to those of us with two X chromosomes who work all day at this and what we’ve managed to achieve. And none of these articles have included the perspective of any of the women listed above, or those of other successful female bloggers like Digby, Pandagon, TalkLeft or Taylor Marsh.
Today, Catherine Morgan of Informed Voter posted a list of more than 100 women political bloggers and blogs. It’s completely nonpartisan (I’m there, Lisa Renee’s Liberal Common Sense is there, and so is Mary Katherine Ham of Townhall and Michelle Malkin) and includes many new to me. Big kudos to Morgan for putting this list together. I don’t think I’ve ever seen one like it before.
Dipping deeper into the sea of blogs? This list is another good place to test out the temperature.
Cross-posted at Wide Open.
By Jill Miller Zimon at 7:40 am October 4th, 2007 in Blogging, Media, Politics, Women, Writing | 5 Comments
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