Actual News about Me and Becky!

Well I usually let all the good stories about whats going on with us go to Becky, as she usually is the one that takes the pictures and just plain beats me to the punch but not this time.

We already have our plans set for this weekend...we are going to go to the bathroom...together. Yep a public restroom too, specificaly the 2nd floor restroom of the National Portrait Gallery.

Yes it seems for a short 6 week window we can see a piece of work so honored, so treasured, that it had to be hung outside the hall of presidents...even if that means in the restrooms. This would be of course the legendary "Colbert Portrait". For the full story on the portrait and how it ended up there you can watch the videos below. The short version is that Stephan Colbert of Comedy Central's "Colbert Report" convinced the national portrait gallery to hang up his portrait that normally hangs above the show set's fireplace.

Becky and I are big fans of the Colbert Report and were a little bummed that they filmed a small series here in DC recently and we missed it! Oh well, the portrait will have to do. I wonder if there is a website that lists celebrity visits/Sighting in DC...

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The videos:
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Yea Becky! Boo DC!

DC's Schools rank 51st in Nation, VA, MD have strong showing

The Post has a piece up today on the rankings from Editorial Projects in Education (publisher of Education Week, one of the big rags in the Edu-industry) that place the District dead last among the states based on a formula that makes the BCS look like something you learned in Grade School. Yeah, DC got a D-. Virginia got a B- and Maryland brought home a B. Maryland was actually #3 in the poll, which is pretty impressive. Looks like DC's got work to do.

From the Article:

"Quality Counts is widely considered to be the most thorough evaluation of school performance because more than 150 data points are used in the report. The complex formula, which measures student achievement, standards and assessments and teacher pay, among other factors, ranks Maryland as the third-best state school system in the country with a B average. Virginia comes in fifth with a B-minus and the District last with a D-plus."