I'm thinking Culture Kitchen. Is that a funny place for culture? Or is a kitchen the best place to chew the fat?
I had a moment and I thought of asking you a question. It has to do with educational philosophy. I saw your reference to Howard Gardner. For starters, are you with me that people communicate more non-verbally than they do verbally? I think that is often put on an equation of twice the former to the latter. So, what can ACTs or other such entrance tests show except that a person can take tests. I suppose you are familiar with the autism spectrum discussion. But what I wanted to ask, really, is what you believe is a disability and not just a what? Quirk of nature? I refer to the easy end of the spectrum with Aspergers and non-verbal learning (NLD). And then the question in the question (because you have undoubtedly more educational theory background than anyone else I could ask) is: are such things disabilities. I'm serious, because I was on a yahoogroup with some very savvy people who, in most cases, had been diagnosed as disabled because of NLD. If they fell into a category where their verbal skills matched jobs which they found, they could actually work and still be covered by ADA rules as far as Human Resources departments were concerned. Many such folks work, using computers. The downside of their aptitude is in "social skills." They don't understand facial expressions or voice inflections. They take jokes seriously and think they are not doing a good job, when they were being accepted.
Does any of this make sense to you?
You seem to be a person who enjoys all media for learning, not just pages of print. And that is not something I can't say for bloggers in general.