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Sausalito Library officials to review phone survey>city librarian's office<Sau. City Hall end of meeting a guess...
Event Date: Tue, Aug 7, 2007 10:00am PDT
Posted: Tue, Aug 7, 2007 12:23am PDT
No Child Left Behind and the Media Spin on Education Unions Saturday, August 4, 2007 : When it comes to getting out the union message, cutting through the media spin is hard enough. But under the Bush administration, the media at times has became the tool of the Republican Party, such as when the Department of Education began pushing the GOP's anti-union agenda?at taxpayer expense. Chuck Porcari, AFT director of communications and John See, AFT associate director of communications, discussed how the media spins education issues during a late afternoon...
Posted: Sat, Aug 4, 2007 10:07am PDT
US Presidential Candidate: Free Education is Possible As millions of college students begin preparing to enter college this fall, many have become accustom to increased tuitions year after year. Nationwide college tuitions are climbing and in some states the increase is 10 percent or more going into the fall semester. Stewart A. Alexander, a Peace and Freedom Party Candidate for President, says free education is possible through university level; a position the PFP, Peace and Freedom Party, has supported for 40 years....
Posted: Fri, Aug 3, 2007 11:31am PDT
Graduate Assembly to Hold BP Deal Discussion Tonight Thursday, August 2, 2007 : In an effort to answer students? questions and concerns about the BP research deal, the Graduate Assembly is set to hold an informational session tonight to present the results of discussions with campus administrators....
Posted: Thu, Aug 2, 2007 8:43am PDT
Controversial Ethnic Studies Professor Gets the Axe in Colorado Originally From New America Media
Tuesday, July 31, 2007 : BOULDER, Colo. -- A professor claiming Native heritage was fired from his job at University of Colorado over allegations of plagiarism and falsification, reports Indian Country Today. A committee at the university found Ward Churchill guilty of plagiarism and fabrication of authority, among other violations....
Posted: Wed, Aug 1, 2007 6:49am PDT
Urban Schools Need Strong Teacher Retention Programs Originally From New America Media
Wednesday, August 1, 2007 : Qualified teachers are leaving the profession in droves for lack of serious efforts to pay, train and mentor educators in their initial years of working. The problem is especially painful in urban schools where the need for experienced and motivated teachers is the most accute Donal Brown is a writer with New America Media....
Posted: Wed, Aug 1, 2007 6:48am PDT
Ward Churchill Reacts to His Firing This week, the University of Colorado Board of Regents voted to oust controversial academic Ward Churchill, who famously called 9/11 victims 'little Eichmanns.' His reaction—and his defense of those remarks....
Posted: Tue, Jul 31, 2007 2:54pm PDT
5th Annual Youth Empowerment Summit SFSU
1600 Holloway Ave.
San Francisco, CA
95112...
Event Date: Fri, Aug 3, 2007 10:00am PDT
Posted: Mon, Jul 30, 2007 6:47pm PDT
Campus Greens (Student Green Party org.) Phone Meeting Phone
Next meeting plan for 8pm Pacific Time in 2 weeks...
Event Date: Mon, Jul 30, 2007 6:30pm PDT
Posted: Mon, Jul 30, 2007 10:28am PDT
Marin Grassroots Council Meet: Novato schools and police Meeting may go on longer...
Event Date: Tue, Jul 31, 2007 6:00pm PDT
Posted: Mon, Jul 30, 2007 8:41am PDT
AB1403 Threatens Our Schools Central Valley Assemblymembers Juan Arambula and Mike Villines continue their attacks on our public school system....
Posted: Sun, Jul 29, 2007 5:02pm PDT
BULLDOG PRIDE FUND ESTABLISHES $1,000 GSA NETWORK AWARD FOR STUDENTS AT FRESNO STATE 
BULLDOG PRIDE FUND ESTABLISHES $1,000 GSA NETWORK ANNUAL AWARD FOR STUDENTS AT FRESNO STATE. Give today. For tomorrow and beyond....
Posted: Sat, Jul 28, 2007 4:17pm PDT
Tennessee Steps Back from Student Drug Testing Thursday, July 26, 2007 : Tennessee State Attorney General Bob Cooper released an opinion on July 2 that called for the prohibition of random student drug testing in the state. He held that random drug testing violates the controlling Tennessee statute that allows drug testing of a student only when there is reasonable suspicion of drug use to the principal....
Posted: Fri, Jul 27, 2007 8:31am PDT
Berkeley Professor Among Wounded in Attack on Independent Newspaper in Niger Delta Thursday, July 26, 2007 :
Insecurity continues to escalate in the oil-rich Niger Delta. On Wednesday morning unidentified gunmen stormed the office of an independent weekly newspaper, the National Point. The paper is published by activist journalists and had recently reported on the alleged links between local politicians and criminal gangs. University of California - Berkeley professor Michael Watts was among the wounded. We go to Nigeria to speak with award-winning Nigerian journalist Ib...
Posted: Thu, Jul 26, 2007 9:47am PDT
U.S., Iraqi School Teacher Create Peace Bridge for Students from Brooklyn to Baghdad Thursday, July 26, 2007 :
Three years ago Brooklyn school teacher Bruce Wallace created a project to teach students about the people on the “other side” of the Iraqi war and to create a peace bridge between the two sides. For years Wallace and Iraqi Romance literature teacher Nesreen, as well as their students, corresponded by email. The Americans and Iraqis exchanged emails about their lives, war and growing up in Brooklyn and Baghdad. Bruce Wallace and Nesreen join us in our firehouse st...
Posted: Thu, Jul 26, 2007 9:46am PDT
American Indian Tribes Protest Museum Action Thursday, July 26, 2007 : A group of American Indian tribes has formed a coalition asking for a chance to voice their opinions on last month's decision to eliminate a campus museum department created to mediate claims of tribal representatives....
Posted: Thu, Jul 26, 2007 7:48am PDT
Who Asked Us? How I Got an Education in Juvenile Hall Originally From New America Media
Wednesday, July 25, 2007 :In and out of trouble since middle school, this young writer finally found the education he was looking for in an unlikely place – the maximum security unit of Alameda juvenile hall. Victor Morales, 18, is a contributor to The Beat Within, a weekly publication of writing and art from the inside....
Posted: Wed, Jul 25, 2007 8:36pm PDT
ACLU Tells Federal Court It Can Protect Both Gay Students and Free Speech Wednesday, July 25, 2007 : CINCINNATI – The American Civil Liberties Union today told the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit that a school policy designed to protect lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender students from harassment went too far in squelching the right of some religious students to express their views on homosexuality....
Posted: Wed, Jul 25, 2007 8:32pm PDT
Tribes Join Forces Re: UC Berkeley's Decision Affecting Native American Ancestral Remains TRIBES JOIN FORCES AGAINST UC BERKELEY’S DECISION AFFECTING NATIVE AMERICAN ANCESTRAL REMAINS
Five-tribe NAGPRA Coalition Rejects Discrimination in Decision
Process, UCB’s Complete Deference to Research Scientists...
Posted: Wed, Jul 25, 2007 7:14am PDT
Professor Ward Churchill Vows to Sue University of Colorado Over Controversial Firing Wednesday, July 25, 2007 :
The Board of Regents of the University of Colorado in Boulder voted 8 to 1 Tuesday evening to fire tenured professor of Ethnic Studies Ward Churchill on charges of research misconduct. But Churchill maintains that the allegations were a pretext to remove him for his controversial political views. One day after his firing, Churchill calls the charges a sham and vows a suit against the school....
Posted: Wed, Jul 25, 2007 7:14am PDT
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