One way Bridgette Raes suggested wearing this red top and black pants was with a tweed jacket.
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| From bridgetteraes.com |
The white one she featured is very classy but I just can't stop with this marvelous colorful tweed blazer.
Colorful tweed blazer (thrifted, Sag Harbor), $0.29/wear+
Black jeans (thrifted, NYDJ), $1.67/wear
Red long-sleeved T (Walmart), $1.25/wear+
Black ankle boots by Sam Edelman, $3.04/wear
Red/silver ribbon necklace (Kohls), $3.94/wear
Outfit total: $10.19/wear
Bright colors AND it has that edging that I adore? I would definitely have spent more than 88 cents on this blazer, but I'm happy I didn't have to.
In other news...Texas doesn't get a lot of love in the K-12 education world, so it was nice to see this post about an elementary school in the Fort Worth area (Eagle Mountain) that quadrupled recess time for KG and G1 students with good results. Note that the positive feedback so far is qualitative; this kind of program often lives or dies ultimately based on hard numbers like test scores, unfortunately.
I looked up the school on the Civil Rights Data Collection website and found that for the 2011 reporting year (the most recent available), the school is 82% white and 16% free/reduced price lunch, the profile of a school that probably already has high test scores given the racial/class predictability in that domain. So it's not clear that they have a lot of room to move the dial on that metric. OK, I found data on the Texas state assessments of math and reading, and it looks like this school does a bit better than the average elementary school in the state, moreso in reading than math (which makes sense given that only 1% of the students are classified as limited English proficient). Hopefully the evaluators working the project will have a range of metrics they'll analyze in determining the success of the project.
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