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Steve Russell, Indian : Advice to Myself at 14
I seldom got caught skipping school because the last place they would look for a truant was the public library. I read books by the shelf rather than by author or topic. It was a small library. By Steve Russell … Continue reading
School Project Suppressed Because Harvey Milk Is the Subject
Try to tell me that we don’t live in a supremely repressive society. When a school report about a well-known American public servant is suppressed, you can’t possibly convince me that we are not headed down the wrong road. Richard … Continue reading
The Meaningful Way to Combat Terrorism
Greg Mortenson, shown with students from the Sitara School he established in northeast Afghanistan in 2005, says education is the best ammunition against misogynistic terrorist regimes like the Taliban. Photo: Greg Mortenson.Build relationships, author tells cadetsBy Alexa James Recommends ‘3 … Continue reading
Washington Retraining Programs Unfunded Until July
And it’s reasonable to speculate that this is happening across the country. It says everything about national priorities that we put billions into bailing out financial institutions, some of which are demonstrably corrupt, but those individuals who need funding for … Continue reading
Crowded Classrooms and Crowded Prisons – Why Is It So Hard to See the Connection?
The Dog Eats Its Tail: Oversized Classes, Overpopulated PrisonsBy Jesse Hagopian / March 7, 2009 One in thirty one. As a public school teacher I am quite familiar with this figure — it’s a typical teacher to student ratio in … Continue reading
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Tagged American Society, Education, Educational Reform, Prison Conditions, Prison Overcrowding
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Texas Public Schools : State-Mandated Ignorance
‘The report, Just Say Don’t Know: Sexuality Education in Public Schools, studied materials from 990 Texas school districts and found that 94% of the districts use “abstinence-only programs that usually pass moral judgments while either downplaying or ignoring contraception and … Continue reading
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Tagged Abstinence, Education, Public Schools, Sex Education, Texas
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Bill Ayers : Obama and Education Reform
“Arne Duncan was the smart choice.” Nominee for education secretary Duncan, with President-elect Obama, speaks to children at a school in Chicago. Photo by Jeff Haynes / Reuters.‘Since the Obama victory, many people seem to be suffering a kind of … Continue reading
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Tagged Arne Duncan, Education, Educational Reform, Obama Cabinet, William Ayers
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Lisa Sanchez Gonzalez : The Real Problem of the 21st Century
30 Rock’s Kenneth the page (Jack McBrayer): “What about white men?” I would go as far as to say that the defining problem of the 21st-century United States is not, as W.E.B. DuBois claimed of the 20th, the “color line.” … Continue reading
College: American Dream Evaporates, Item by Item
Bye Bye College Education: The Path to Upward Economic Mobility is Fading AwayBy Joel Hirschhorn / December 12, 2008 Try to imagine just how much the cost of a college education has increased over the past 25 years. Take your … Continue reading
Obama Picks Duncan and Salazar : A Hit and a Miss?
Arne Duncan, Barack Obama’s nominee for Education Secretary, comes with some impressive references. Here’s a “thumbs up” and a “thumbs down” from a progressive perspective on two of President-elect Barack Obama’s most recent Cabinet nominees. Arne Duncan appears to be … Continue reading
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Tagged Education, Educational Reform, Environment, Interior Department, Obama Administration, Obama Cabinet, Obama Transition
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Drag Queen Daddy : What Do We Tell the Kid?
We are running the following important advice as a special service to our readers. It comes from ‘Dear Prudence: Advice on Manners and Morals’ from the online magazine Slate. Go here to read more from Prudence, to get her to … Continue reading
Bob Jones University Says ‘No’ to Racism, Abercrombie & Fitch
Students at Bob Jones University becoming smart at the Bob Jones University Library, reading books by Bob Jones. Photo by Francis Miller / Life Magazine / 1948. ‘Finally, BJ University has issued a half-hearted apology for their racist past. They … Continue reading
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Tagged Bigotry, Colleges, Education, Fundamentalism, Racism, Religion
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