The recent SPARK Summit held at Hunter College inspired my students to launch a movement against the sexualization of girls and women in the media. After watching a video made by the Women’s Media Center on the horrific ways in which girls and women are objectified by the media, students wanted to learn more about how they could be a part of the conversation too.
To prepare my students for the summit, I designed a series of workshops for them to participate in on issues such as media literacy, sexual assault, street harassment, and feminist blogging. Guest visitors from around the country came to my class to share their expertise, culminating in students creating their own feminist blog to be
Photo by Ringo Chiu - Chris Chase at LAUSD project.
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Monday, November 1, 2010 -- Nonunion contractors who oppose union-friendly agreements on public works projects have a fresh argument to strengthen their campaign to ban such agreements.
An audit commissioned by the nonunion contractors alleges violations by 55 contractors working on a $150 million Los Angeles Unified School District high school under construction in San Fernando. The alleged violations include failure to pay prevailing wages and inadequate supervision. Four of the contractors had expired or suspended licenses.
A construction union spokesman rejected the findings of the audit. Richard Slawson, executive secretary
 Katherine Nakamura (SDUSD) Related Links In one of the more interesting twists of the election season, a judge ruled that Nakamura is eligible to try to reclaim her seat as a write-in candidate after coming in third in the June primary. The winner of this race, and another between five-term incumbent John De Beck and Scott Barnett, will take seats on a board grappling with a fifth straight year of spending reductions. The budget shortfall in the 2011-12 fiscal year, for which planning already is underway, is estimated to be $141 million. School officials hope to shrink the gap with a $50 million infusion of cash from Proposition J, which if passed would impose a parcel tax on all property within the boundaries of the district. Nakamura said after her primary bid fell short that a lot of parents told |
He'll say 'bye to Rhee (she actually had her last day on Friday I think) and then head to the UK.
I still wonder if she holds a grudge against Duncan et al for not supporting her more strongly during the last weeks before the primary.
Nothing about it in Rhee and Fenty's oped
. . . . But there is a fragility to the changes Rhee has wrought. Elementary reading and math scores dipped in 2010 after two years of gains. Testing data also show that efforts to narrow the achievement gap separating white and African American students stalled this year. Many schools remain deeply troubled; 12 percent of sophomores at Spingarn High School in Northeast
Lame-Duck Congress to Face Education Issues EdWeeK: Each chamber's current version of the spending bill would extend for another year the Obama administration's signature education initiative—the $4.35 ... Tenn. students complain about no ketchup, mustard AP: Students at Memphis City Schools are complaining there's no ketchup. No mustard, either. Calvin Jones, the interim head of food services, said the schools have plenty of bulk condiments, but not enough cafeteria workers to squirt them into little plastic cups... Boston schools at a crossroads Boston Globe (column): The best charter schools in the city, which operate independently of Boston’s central office and teachers union, will turn the world upsidedown to ensure that their kids outperform the suburbs on statewide tests.. America's lesson for British classrooms Telegraph (UK) Using language that could have come from his predecessor George W Bush, Mr Obama has consistently cited education as the country's greatest long-term ... Teens still reading A detailed analysis into the trend on reading for fun - in books, newspapers and magazines - comes from researcher Sandra Hofferth, of University of Maryland, who analyzed the detailed daily time-use diaries of a nationally representative sample of children 12 to 18... D.C. teachers hit dead end in court challenge to layoffs Washington Post: The Washington Teachers' Union's legal challenge to the layoff of 266 educators in October 2009 effectively ended Friday, when a union attorney told a D.C. Superior Court judge that it could find no evidence that Schools Chancellor Michelle A. Rhee contrived a budget crunch to justify the job cuts.
Lame-Duck Congress to Face Education Issues
Spending priorities, extension of Race to the Top, child nutrition, and early education are among the unfinished business confronting lawmakers. (November 1, 2010)
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Untraditional high school reading lists are leading to a drop in literacy skills, a new study argues. (October 28, 2010) | Comments (10)
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