Sunday, June 6, 2010
Hispanic college success: It's all in the family - Boston.com
Hispanic college success: It's all in the family
RIVERSIDE, Calif.—When Roberto Rodriguez arrived at the University of California campus here four years ago, he felt the emotional tug home so many other Hispanic first-generation college students talk about.
Three years and some bumps later, with graduation within reach, Roberto's father suffered a heart attack and was diagnosed with diabetes -- the kind of family crisis capable of derailing any college career.
But instead of becoming a dropout statistic, Rodriguez will graduate with honors this month from UC-Riverside, where graduation rate gaps that separate Hispanic students from their peers on a national level simply do not exist.
Studies show that more Hispanic students are enrolling in college, but a disproportionate number drop out with debt instead of degrees. At the average college or university, 51 percent of Hispanic students earn a bachelor's degree in
At age 15, Portland student Christina Schmidt has already helped build a school in Cambodia | OregonLive.com
At age 15, Portland student Christina Schmidt has already helped build a school in Cambodia
By Carolina Hidalgo, The Oregonian
June 06, 2010, 12:00PM
View full sizeChristina Schmidt works on a school project for her social studies and English class. After wrapping up her freshman year of high school this month, Schmidt will travel to Guatemala with her family to help build a house through Habitat for Humanity.On a tidy shelf in a bright turquoise bedroom in Southwest Portland sits a framed certificate from the Cambodian Ministry of Education. It is written in Khmer, the official language of the Southeast Asian nation, except for a name: Christina Schmidt. The document, essentially a fancy thank-you note, was presented to the 15-year-old last winter in a tiny village about a day's drive northwest of Phnom Penh after she helped raise more than $16,000 to build a secondary school in the impoverished country.
"I feel like it's part of my duty to give back and to help others who aren't as lucky as I've been," Schmidt said.
Now, as she wraps up her freshman year at Lincoln High School, the teen with a passion for nonprofit work and a knack for raising money is preparing for her next project: a family Habitat for Humanity trip to Guatemala. She and her 13-year-old brother, Andrew, have raised $2,000 to put toward construction supplies. They will donate their time to build a house with the family that will live in it.
Schmidt, sitting at her dining room table, traces her interest in humanitarian work to a 2007 family vacation to Vietnam and Laos that introduced her to
Another View: Bee takes 'cheap shot' at Sac union - Sacramento Opinion - Sacramento Editorial | Sacramento Bee
Another View: Bee takes 'cheap shot' at Sac union
Published: Sunday, Jun. 6, 2010 - 12:00 am | Page 3E
It comes as no surprise that the anti-union Sacramento Bee would use Elk Grove's tentative agreement to attack the Sacramento City Teachers Association ("Elk Grove teachers union puts kids first," editorial, May 21.) We in the Elk Grove Education Association reject this backhanded comparison as little more than a cheap shot at SCTA. The editorial, in its zeal to strike at the Sacramento teachers' union, neglected to note the far different set of circumstances facing our two associations.
First of all, the Elk Grove teachers' contract runs through June 2010 while the Sacramento teachers' contract extends further into the future. It takes two parties to sign an agreement to make it valid. The onus is not on the teachers'
Read more: http://www.sacbee.com/2010/06/06/2799812/bee-takes-cheap-shot-at-sac-union.html#storylink=scinlineshareb#ixzz0q6Cj3DF0
CHARTER SCHOOL SCANDALS: Aisha Shule/W.E.B. DuBois Preparatory Academy
Aisha Shule/W.E.B. DuBois Preparatory Academy
TEACHER ACCUSED OF CHOKING, REMOVED FROM DUTY, June 5, 2010, Free Press (Detroit)
A teacher at Aisha Shule/W.E.B. DuBois Preparatory Academy has been removed from duty pending an investigation into whether he improperly restrained one of two students who got into a fight on a school playground last week.
Teachers separated the students, but one, a fifth-grader, was inconsolable and went after the other student again, said Hasina Murphy, deputy director of Aisha Shule/W.E.B. DuBois, a public school academy with 250 K-12 students on Detroit's west side.
Sunday links. � Fred Klonsky's blog
Sunday links.
John Wooden.
LAist reports on the downtown (Yes. There is one!) L.A. rally to fund arts education.
We went to see Get Him to the Greek last night. I laughed.
The babbling of Arne Duncan brought to you by Kenneth Libby.
spedteacher Tweets: Trying to convince my principal that showing World Cup matches in my geography
The Wall.
Gaza City, Palestine.
Schools Matter: Rules of the (Gates) Game: "follow lockstep" or be Punished
Rules of the (Gates) Game: "follow lockstep" or be Punished
From the USA Today's recent profile of the Gates Foundation:
Criticism has risen with the Gates Foundation's impact and influence.In the U.S., where the foundation concentrates mostly on efforts to reform education, the Gates Foundation, over the years, has given money to almost every major education think tank, leaving few to criticize its power, asserts former assistant secretary of Education Diane Ravitch in her new book, The Death and Life of the Great American School System.Those who do not "follow lockstep" with the foundation can get punished, says David Shreve, federal
Search continues for missing boy, hundreds of adults and kids to return to Skyline today for interviews with detectives | OregonLive.com
Search continues for missing boy, hundreds of adults and kids to return to Skyline today for interviews with detectives
By Noelle Crombie, The Oregonian
June 06, 2010, 6:58AM
View full sizeA photo posted on his stepmother's Facebook page shows Kyron Horman in front of his science fair project, wearing the "CSI" T-shirt he was last seen in.The search for 7-year-old Kyron Horman continues this morning as 300 students and their parents return to Skyline Elementary School to review the details of the day the boy went missing.
Authorities made no progress in the search for Kyron, which was suspended overnight but is resuming today with a 2-square-mile grid search. The massive effort to find the second-grader involves four county sheriff's departments, the Portland Police Bureau and a large number of federal agents with the FBI. So far, the search hasn't turned up any clues about the child's whereabouts.
Families and students will be interviewed at the school by a team of 50 detectives from agencies across the region today, starting at 10 a.m. and continuing through the afternoon.
Authorities plan to brief the public later this morning about the status of the search.
Authorities made no progress in the search for Kyron, which was suspended overnight but is resuming today with a 2-square-mile grid search. The massive effort to find the second-grader involves four county sheriff's departments, the Portland Police Bureau and a large number of federal agents with the FBI. So far, the search hasn't turned up any clues about the child's whereabouts.
Families and students will be interviewed at the school by a team of 50 detectives from agencies across the region today, starting at 10 a.m. and continuing through the afternoon.
Authorities plan to brief the public later this morning about the status of the search.
The Sky Won’t Fall if Amendment 4 Passes � Tangerine, Florida
The Sky Won’t Fall if Amendment 4 Passes � Tangerine, Florida
The Sky Won’t Fall if Amendment 4 Passes
Opponents of Florida Hometown Democracy’s Amendment 4, developers and land-speculators, have been successful in scaring many local governments with misinformation.
Unfortunately, many local governments aren’t even researching these bogus claims. They’re just accepting them and passing resolutions saying that the sky will fall if Amendment 4 is passed.
Overdevelopment helped crash Florida’s economy. We currently have over 400,000 vacant dwellings. Local governments helped create the building boom by charging artificially low impact fees to builders, and not requiring them to fund the needed infrastructure (roads, schools, water,
Free Technology for Teachers: Micro Mobs - Realtime Group Messaging
Micro Mobs - Realtime Group Messaging
Micro Mobs is a free service that allows anyone to create their own public or private micromessaging network. To get started just name your mob (network) pick a URL then register for an account. You can register for a Micro Mobsaccount or use your Twitter or Facebook account to login into Micro Mobs. Once you've created your Micro Mobs network you can invite others by email, Twitter, or Facebook message. If you choose to make your Micro Mobs network private it can only be accessed by the people you have invited.Applications for Education
Micro Mobs could be a good private platform for hosting a backchannel chat in your classroom. Micro Mobs might also be a good platform for keeping in contact with parents or colleagues.
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Eulogy of Bobby Kennedy
Ted Kennedy delivering the closing part of the eulogy at the funeral of his brother Bobby, using excerpts from Bobby's famous speech to the students of a South African university in 1966.
Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice & Human Rights
Help Our Work in Haiti
Jewelery designer Joan Hornig has designed a special necklace to benefit the survivors of the earthquake in Haiti. You can support the work that RFK Center is doing.
Help Save a Laureate's Life
1998 Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award Laureate Berenice Celeyta is in mortal danger, and we need your help to protect her and other Colombian human rights activists.
PHOTOS: Streep, Mortensen, Moore in STTP
Meryl Streep, Viggo Mortensen, Julianne Moore, and others performed Ariel Dorfman's play Speak Truth to Power in New York on May 3.
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