Friday night lights
by Buzz Bissinger · first published 1990
6mentions
1recommended by
4HN commenters
2009–2023first – last mentioned
25% recommend75% neutral
Return once again to the timeless account of the Permian Panthers of Odessa--the winningest high-school football team in Texas history. Odessa is not known to be a town big on dreams, but the Panthers help keep the hopes and dreams of this small, dusty town going. Socially and racially divided, its fragile economy follows the treacherous boom-bust path of the oil business. In bad times, the unemployment rate barrels out of control; in good times, its murder rate skyrockets. But every Friday night from September to December, when the Permian High School Panthers play football, this West Texas t
Affiliate links. As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.
…make teachers more accountable, reward better teachers, remove crappier teachers, and generally change the culture in our schools without taking tactical nukes to the NEA and AFT. [1] Read Bissinger's Friday Night Lights for the best-written example of what I'm talking about. [2] http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/07/education/07teacher.html
on “Is It Sunday Already? Seems Like Only Yesterday It Was Saturday” ↗For what it's worth, Bissinger also wrote Friday Night Lights, which is one of the more famous investigative journalism pieces ever written about sports. It's one thing to point out that, having identified and (famously) exploited market inefficiencies in the MLB…
on “The Ultimate Failure of Moneyball” ↗…Why by Jay Asher The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser The Color Purple by Alice Walker Feed by M.T. Anderson Friday Night Lights by Buzz Bissinger Gossip Girl by Cecily von Ziegesar I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou I'm a bit surprised that Ulysses by James Joyce didn't make the list, but maybe the AI couldn't…
on “Iowa using AI to automatically scan and ban books” ↗…and one of teaching talent (the students who enroll in Schools of Education are below the median for GPA and SAT scores for universities that offer education degrees). Attitudes are hard to explain; Friday Night Lights (the book) examines but doesn't explain. The quality of teaching stock is explainable, but no one likes the explanation - the opening of the workforce to women has taken a lot of high-quality women out…
on “How 'Waiting for “Superman”' Will Further Fuel the Education Debate” ↗…http://www.cnn.com/2017/02/14/health/brain-damage-dementia-c... The only reason to keep asking for more studies is to stall so they can make money off of high school athletes, high school football in Texas in a racket as documented in the book Friday Night Lights (not the movie or TV show). Also, if you don't believe that book, James Michener wrote a book 20 years earlier called Sports in America that documents the same phenomena across America in all amateur…
My recollection is the book Friday Night Lights lays out the racism and classism at the core of high school football and that's just in Texas and James Michener brought up these sorts of issues of societal opportunity cost/health cost/monetary benefit…
on “Ravens OL John Urschel, 26, retires abruptly, two days after CTE study” ↗