An E.G.S. #SPECIALREQUEST: Keyshia Cole Should Cover Evelyn Champagne King

As a self-proclaimed music aficionado, sometimes I get ideas.  I think like a producer, so every now and then I hear an artist at work and think to myself, "It would be so dope if..."  And through blogging, I found out that sometimes, if I just throw an idea out into the atmosphere, it actually comes into being--- sometimes in ways I never expected.  So what the hay; I've got an idea.

My first "brilliant idea" of many to come is surrounding a certain Keyshia Cole...

Flash Kicks SUCK: The Hard Transition, 5/25/2015

Okay, I’m old school--- my instinct is to shoot down all incoming bogeys with Guile’s flash kick, period.  That’s just how I always did things.  And it’s not that I didn’t know about things like his crouching uppercut, I just always used them differently in the II series.  For instance, my favorite thing to do was to go from the crouching HP (I called it the Statue of Liberty Uppercut) right into his heavy Flash Kick.  Nothing like a good two piece, plus it just looked cool.

Anyway, as I got into the IV series, for the first time it dawned on me:  flash kicks suck.

Learning Essentials as... Non-Essentials, 5/23/2015

What does it take to receive a first rate education?  Smart Boards? Online learning?  Laptops for every student?  Sure, these things can help the learning process, I won’t dispute that.  However, effective learning did not start with 21^st Century technology, nor do I believe I should end with 21^st Century technology.

Standardized Testing: Turning Courses into Obstacles

Recently in Georgia, Governor Nathan Deal signed a waiver so that thousands of high school students could get their high school diplomas in spite of not completing their graduation tests.  Talk to many of these students and you find that they’re capable, intelligent people; they could probably tell you mounds of things that they’ve learned over the course of grade school.  It’s just that, when it came to a particular graduation test covering a particular data set, they weren’t able to jump through the hoop. 

#ORGANIZEBALTIMORE or #MORERIOTS

Marilyn Mosby.  Stephanie Rawlings-Blake.  Caesar R. Goodson Jr.  Garrett E. Miller. Edward M. Nero.  William G. Porter.  Brian W. Rice.  Alicia D. White.  …These are the names you need to be familiar with surrounding the killing of Freddie Gray and pending federal investigation of the Baltimore PD.

So you’re probably wondering why an educator would bring up such a nasty incident of police brutality and subsequent rioting on a blog about education, music, and gaming.  Well, maybe it’s a music thing:  the legendary Prince is releasing a new song and holding a peace rally in Baltimore on May 10^th--- my birthday!! :-D

…Nah, that’s not the reason I’m writing this.  Would’ve been a good excuse, though :-\