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Growing Concern over Special Education Conditions in Oakland The Oakland Education Association (OEA) Special Education Caucus is collecting signatures to raise awareness and build solidarity for addressing alarming special education conditions in Oakland Unified School District....
Posted: Mon, Dec 11, 2006 8:27pm 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
Racist: A damning report on UK schools Official investigation leaked to 'IoS' reveals widespread 'institutional racism'
But ministers refuse to accept sweeping criticisms from experts...
Posted: Sun, Dec 10, 2006 11:33am PST
Students, Faculty Rally for Change at CSUS Multi-Cultural Center Eight students in Coalition for Cultural Opportunities in Leadership and Overall Rention of Students rallied with six faculty members at California State University, Sacramento in mid-October to voice concerns about the direction of the Multi-Cultural Women's Resource Center....
Posted: Fri, Dec 8, 2006 2:05am 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
UAW Local 2865 support for teaches in Oaxaca, Mexico UAW LOCAL 2865 RESOLUTION IN SUPPORT OF SECTION 22 OF THE NATIONAL UNION OF EDUCATION WORKERS AND THE POPULAR ASSEMBLY OF THE PEOPLES OF OAXACA...
Posted: Sun, Dec 3, 2006 1:08am PST
12/7 Local Youth Document Teen Use of MySpace A project created by area teens on the culture of Myspace in youth lives, will be the focus of an event held at Terronez Middle School at 7:00 p.m. (2300 S Willow Ave, Fresno). Evening includes a short documentary film & a panel discussion including youth, parents and school officials. Door prizes include an Ipod Nano! Sponsored by Fresno County Public Library and the California Council for the Humanities....
Posted: Sat, Dec 2, 2006 12:00pm PST
UC Student Assoc. Condemns Police Brutality - Demands Charges Dropped, Officers Suspended IMMEDIATE RELEASE
November 27, 2006
STATEMENT FOR RELEASE
REGARDING POLICE BRUTALITY AT THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA...
Posted: Thu, Nov 30, 2006 1:54am 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
Help us abolish strip mining in Tennessee We are about to kill strip mining for coal in Tennessee...
Posted: Sun, Nov 26, 2006 10:13am PST
Australia: Labor makes cynical promise on public education in Victorian election For empty promises and cheap electioneering, the Labor Party’s ploy on public education in the Victorian state election campaign plumbs new depths....
Posted: Fri, Nov 24, 2006 5:14am PST
ROTC Supporters Threaten JROTC Opponents "Hey you stupid hatin azz bitch!!! Better watch ur fkn bk ya dumbazz whore!" This was just one of the threatening MySpace messages directed at Mara Kubrin, a senior at Lowell High School, following the vote by the San Francisco school board to phase JROTC out of the City's public schools. On Tuesday evening, November 14, Mara presented a petition to the board opposing JROTC, signed by over 800 students. The next morning her picture appeared in the online edition of the San Francisco Chronicle...
Posted: Wed, Nov 22, 2006 7:30am PST
City College Board Race Still Undecided Two weeks after the Election, one local race has taken a surprising turn in the late absentee balloting that puts the final outcome into question. Many assumed that College Board member Johnnie Carter had lost his re-election bid to John Rizzo, chair of the San Francisco chapter of the Sierra Club. But the latest unofficial returns as of 2:30 p.m. on November 21st now have Carter ahead by 81 votes. Rizzo remains cautiously optimistic that he will prevail with the final count – which is expect...
Posted: Wed, Nov 22, 2006 7:18am PST
Latin America Studies Scholarship Fund Prescott College seeks to enhance the field study opportunities for Latin America Studies Students through the establishment of a $5,000 endowment fund for scholarships....
Posted: Mon, Nov 20, 2006 11:53am PST
UCLA Police Repeatedly Taser Handcuffed Student For Refusal to Show ID, University Orders Outside Probe Officials at the University of California in Los Angeles are launching an independent investigation into campus police officers' repeated shocking of an Iranian-American student with a Taser stun gun. The student was handcuffed the entire time. The incident was captured on video has and sparked outrage across his campus and the country....
Posted: Mon, Nov 20, 2006 7:00am PST
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