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Racism of the Juvenile Justice System Revealed
A new report on the nation's juvenile justice system reveals chronic racial disparities. By Nell Bernstein, with additional reporting by Perry Jones. Nell Bernstein is an editor at New America Media and author of "All Alone in the World: Children of the Incarcerated" (New Press, 2005). "And Justice for All" can be viewed at http://www.nccd-crc.org/nccd/....
Posted: Mon, Jan 15, 2007 10:07am PST
Australian government to fund chaplains in public and private schools
Under the guise of helping young people, the Australian government has allocated $90 million over the next three years to fund the appointment of chaplains in government as well as private schools....
Posted: Thu, Jan 11, 2007 8:48am PST
Join Revolutionaries Delegation to Venezuela
The objective of US - Venezuela Bolivarian Exchange is to build bridges between the Bolivarian movement in Venezuela and the social justice movement in the United States, facilitating exchanges of delegations between community-based organizations from each nation....
Posted: Tue, Jan 9, 2007 7:17pm PST
Black Leaders Brace For Adverse School Ruling
WASHINGTON (NNPA) –Although the U. S. Supreme Court ruled in favor of affirmative action in the University of Michigan Law School case three years ago and Brown v. Board of Education in 1954, Black leaders say affirmative action and school desegregation are among the most important issues facing Black America in 2007 – both being at risk....
Posted: Sun, Jan 7, 2007 11:32am PST
Japan’s “education reform” to indoctrinate nationalism
The Japanese government has pushed through controversial changes to the country’s education law, winding back the clock to the state indoctrination that characterised the militarist regimes of the 1930s and 1940s. The Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and its coalition partner New Komeito passed the so-called reform in the parliamentary upper house on December 15....
Posted: Wed, Jan 3, 2007 7:04am PST
Activist Clarity Through Law School Applications
Applying to law school is not for the weak of heart...I find myself laboring through the applications' hard questions. These are big "life" questions, and trying to answer them, really does take one on a sort of inner spiritual journey. At this point, I would even recommend just trying to complete a law school application, for your own spiritual clarity, if you are an activist! To get more clarity and direction, a Raja Yoga, of sorts......
Posted: Tue, Jan 2, 2007 9:03am PST
Student-run infoshop opens
Earlier this month, a student-run non-profit infoshop celebrated its grand opening at The Evergreen State College (TESC) in Olympia, Washington, USA. Using the guise of a state funded student group, volunteers of The Evergreen Infoshoppe were allotted over $4,000 to purchase radical books, zines, and videos for their lending library and resource center. After only a few weeks of planning, the Infoshoppe now hosts an ever-growing collection in a permanent, centrally located and nearly autonomo...
Posted: Sun, Dec 31, 2006 4:35pm PST
Britain: Poorer student numbers fall as tuition fees are hiked up
The number of undergraduates applying to enrol in university courses in England this year fell by 15,000 compared with 2005. The fall is almost entirely due to the September introduction of new tuition “top-up” fees of £3,000 a year. This amount replaces the previous system of fees introduced by the Blair government in which £1,000 was paid up-front....
Posted: Wed, Dec 27, 2006 6:51am PST
What Do Native College Students Want in a Career?
A comprehensive survey by Universum Communications provides a new glimpse into the career aspirations and employer preferences of Native American college undergraduates and MBA students, contrasted with those for other ethnic groups including African Americans, Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders, South Asian Indian Americans, and Latinos....
Posted: Sun, Dec 17, 2006 12:50pm PST
Christians Protest Halloween Then Push for Christmas
Recently a Rabbi asked the Sea-Tac Airport outside Seattle, Wa. to display an 8 foot menorah alongside the 8 large Christmas trees they had on display. The airport blew him off. He threatened to sue. Immediately a Sea-Tac employee went to the local media and made the Rabbi out to be a Grinch, if not anti-Christian. Outraged Christians lodged 500+ complaints with Sea-Tac and threatened the Rabbi with violence. Under public pressure, the Rabbi said he would not sue Sea-Tac so they have now put ...
Posted: Sun, Dec 17, 2006 7:29am PST
Equal education, not segregation: Marchers tell high court to uphold school integration
WASHINGTON — As the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments Dec. 4 on two lawsuits seeking to terminate voluntary desegregation programs in public schools, a thousand protesters, mostly Black, Latino and white college students, marched outside chanting “Equal education, not segregation” and “They say Jim Crow, we say hell no!”...
Posted: Mon, Dec 11, 2006 7:30am PST
UK Student wins victory for academic freedom
A leading British University is forced into an humiliating climbdown following threats of legal action by a victimised Muslim post-graduate...
Posted: Fri, Dec 8, 2006 7:10pm PST
Supreme Court Considers School Integration Case: A Debate
The Supreme Court recently heard arguments in a pair of cases that could determine whether local governments can take measures to promote racially desegregated schools. We host a debate on school integration with the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund and the Heritage Foundation....
Posted: Wed, Dec 6, 2006 7:20am PST
Social polarization in American academia: Pay for US university presidents soars
A new report released November 20 by the Chronicle of Higher Education documents the continued rise in pay for college and university presidents in the United States. The figures reflect the growing integration of top academic administrators into the corporate elite, with presidents increasingly seeing themselves as executives tasked with overseeing their institutions in the interests of corporations and wealthy donors....
Posted: Wed, Dec 6, 2006 7:04am PST
High (And Low) Expectations -- Racist Assumptions Widen Achievement Gap
Recent media attention to an educational "achievement gap" has fired up racists, who suggest that black and Latino kids just cannot compete academically with their white and Asian peers. It's precisely that attitude, often embraced unconsciously among educators, that helps power the achievement gap. Daffodil Altan is a writer and editor at New America Media....
Posted: Tue, Dec 5, 2006 8:29am PST
The Physics of 9/11
Activist, physicist and frequent CounterPunch essayist Manuel Garcia, Jr. intensifies debate by professing his objections to theories promulgated by the 9/11 Truth Movement about the destruction of Buildings 1, 2, and 7 at the N.Y. World Trade Center on September 11, 2001....
Posted: Wed, Nov 29, 2006 10:50pm PST
New Congress Must Support Higher Education
If Democrats want to make good on their commitment to saving the middle class and protecting the poor, it will have to start by supporting all of their young people who have the academic ability, but not the financial flexibility, to succeed in college....
Posted: Tue, Nov 28, 2006 8:08am PST
Times Refuses to Blame Republicans for Failure of No Child Left Behind
The New York Times Sunday Magazine on November 26 featured a cover story and lengthy article to examining why America’s low-income children are poorly educated. Paul Tough’s “What It Will Really Take to Close The Education Gap” sought to explain why, despite the 2002 passage of the No Child Left Behind law, the racial and class achievement gap had not narrowed and the education of low-income children remained inadequate. After citing a wide range of studies, Tough concludes that America could...
Posted: Tue, Nov 28, 2006 8:01am PST
Girl Glut in Colleges Leads to Discrimination in Admissions?
Though the United States has come a long way in women’s rights in the past 40 years, universities are putting women at a disadvantage once again. While at one time few women were given the opportunity to go to college, now the percentage of women in the applicant pool has sky-rocketed to somewhere between 60 percent and two-thirds. The downside of this is that now admissions officers are valuing male applicants more favorably. Such subtle discrimination deteriorates both educational rights an...
Posted: Tue, Nov 28, 2006 7:58am PST