Wednesday, November 7, 2012

TEACHING TO THE TEST:  A fuller review of The Wire's season 4 episode "Corner Boys" will come in this space later today.  Start discussing now.

added: I mean, talk about an episode on one theme: everyone's being pressured to generate statistics which might not actually reflect positive outcomes, whether it's Prez in class, Mayor-elect Carcetti on crime, or Landsman giving Bunk such a hard time over solving the shooting at Andre's place.  In the meantime, let's just reveal in Sidney Handjerker's and Ervin Pepper's phone skills, because that was just classic.