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Toxic Questions Surround Two Richmond Sites Friday, July 6, 2007 : More questions are swirling around the cleanup efforts at two adjacent contaminated sites in Richmond this week. Issues range from the adequacy of testing of contaminants at UC Berkeley’s Richmond Field Station (RFS) and the possibility of radioactive contamination both at the field station and at the adjacent site at Campus Bay, owned by AstraZeneca, a Swiss agro-chemical giant....
Posted: Sat, Jul 7, 2007 10:22am PDT
Too Much Self Esteem Can be Bad For Your Child Friday, July 6, 2007 :American schools stress self-esteem as the stepping-stone to academic achievement. But students from Asian cultures, which place little stock in self-esteem, seem to do better than their American counterparts in school, writes New America Media editor Andrew Lam....
Posted: Fri, Jul 6, 2007 6:58am PDT
"Great public schools, a basic right for every child" Educators slam pro-segregation ruling
Thursday, July 5, 2007 : PHILADELPHIA — The No Child Left Behind Act and the Supreme Court rejection of school desegregation programs drew harsh criticism July 3 as 9,000 teachers and other school workers opened the National Education Association’s Representative Assembly here. The four-day conference met under the slogan “Great public schools, a basic right for every child.” The NEA calls its assembly the largest democratically elected deliberative ...
Posted: Thu, Jul 5, 2007 5:28pm PDT
Too Many California Students Not Ready for College Thursday, July 5, 2007 : By improving college attendance and graduation rates of students in California, the state’s vibrant economy can be maintained. Lawmakers are making a rare attempt to work toward that goal. Pamela Burdman and Marshall S. Smith show how this can happen....
Posted: Thu, Jul 5, 2007 8:29am PDT
Student Fast for Dream Act starts in San Francisco (video/quicktime 47.9MB) On Thursday, July 5th, they will lead a march from Senator Dianne Feinstein's office to Speaker Nancy Pelosi's office and then return to the Civic Center Plaza to greet students who are coming from all over California for the fast. Three-minute QT movie. 48MB....
Posted: Wed, Jul 4, 2007 6:46pm PDT
Desegregation Ruling Might Hit Teachers Hardest Wednesday, July 4, 2007 :Philadelphia Tribune, News Analysis, Eric Mayes, Posted: Jul 04, 2007 Editor's Note: . Last week’s ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court, one which barred school districts from using race as the only factor when assigning students to schools, has generated mixed emotions in Philadelphia — where it will probably have little impact on the student body, but could impact teachers....
Posted: Wed, Jul 4, 2007 1:37pm PDT
Gregory Afghani: Truth and Tenure: Finkelstein and the Perils of Impeccable Scholarship Wednesday, July 4, 2007 :An impressive record of scholarship was not enough to ensure tenure for DePaul University Professor Norman Finkelstein. An unprecedented yet predictable campaign of hate and slander waged by Israel Inc., commandeered by Alan Dershowitz, the noted Harvard plagiarist, strident enemy of human rights, and America's leading apologist for Israeli state terrorism....
Posted: Wed, Jul 4, 2007 1:34pm PDT
Free Speech Victory: Court Agrees Napa Middle School Dress Code Banning "Tigger" Goes Too Far 
Tuesday, July 3, 2007 : NAPA – Upholding the principle that students do not “shed their constitutional rights…at the schoolhouse gate,” a Napa Superior Court judge issued a ruling on Monday that prevents the Napa Valley Unified School District from enforcing the Redwood Middle School dress policy....
Posted: Wed, Jul 4, 2007 8:48am PDT
Lynda Brayer: Norman Finkelstein and the Catholic Church Tuesday, July 3, 2007 :The most recent scandal in American academia is the firing of Dr. Norman Finkelstein by De Paul University, despite the recommendations of his colleagues and peers, students, and his publishing record, all of which would normally assure academic tenure to someone in his position. It seems therefore, that Dr....
Posted: Tue, Jul 3, 2007 7:59pm PDT
UK Professors Decline to Spy on Students [Wish we could get that here in the US--ed]...
Posted: Tue, Jul 3, 2007 3:21pm PDT
UC Illegally Buried "Thousands Of Truckloads" of Toxic Soil In Richmond, State Says Tuesday, July 3, 2007 : UC Berkeley and a Swiss multinational must clean up thousands of truckloads of toxic-laden soil illegally buried at the Richmond site of a planned 1,330-unit housing complex, state officials ordered Friday....
Posted: Tue, Jul 3, 2007 9:02am PDT
"We Do Not Want America to Represent Torture": High School Presidential Scholars Deliver Bush a Message on Human Rights Tuesday, July 3, 2007 :
Last week President Bush got a personal rebuke from an unexpected source. In a meeting with this year’s high school presidential scholars, he was handed a letter signed by 50 of the students criticizing the White House’s detention policies and support for torture in the so-called war on terror. We speak with two of the students....
Posted: Tue, Jul 3, 2007 8:20am PDT
An evening with Alan Haber, founder of S.D.S. and Long Haul Infoshop Long Haul Infoshop
3124 Shattuck Ave. Berkeley...
Event Date: Wed, Jul 11, 2007 7:00pm PDT
Posted: Mon, Jul 2, 2007 9:28pm PDT
Bill Williams: The Commissar Two-Step at DePaul Monday, July 2, 2007 : Over the last few weeks, as I have thought hard about how the Finkelstein and Larudee tenure denials went down the way they did, I repeatedly stumble upon a troubling, but perhaps plausible, scenario. Imagine the following phone conversation between the Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law at Harvard, Alan Dershowitz, and John Simon, the Chair of DePaul's Board of Trustees:...
Posted: Mon, Jul 2, 2007 7:02pm PDT
Chipping Away at 'Brown' Saturday, June 30, 2007 : The public secret is that most school systems in the United States have resegregated themselves, if they were ever desegregated to begin with. Now, however, it's more likely that European Americans will be educated apart from schools comprised of Latino and African American students....
Posted: Sat, Jun 30, 2007 8:44am PDT
Asian Parents and Students Face Challenge of Diversity Saturday, June 30, 2007 :The U.S. Supreme Court struck down voluntary school desegregation plans in Seattle and Louisville, Ky., because they use race to assign some students to schools in an attempt to avoid racial isolation. For many Asian-American students, self-segregation is a part of their high school life. Meanwhile, Asian-American parents navigate between the choice of sending their children to the best school and ensuring that their children can adapt to a diverse society....
Posted: Sat, Jun 30, 2007 8:43am PDT
Luddite Uprising 101 - Free Skool Santa Cruz (1st of 6 classes) Big Yellow House (see original posting: http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2007/06/25/18430590.php)...
Event Date: Thu, Jul 5, 2007 7:00pm PDT
Posted: Fri, Jun 29, 2007 8:59am PDT
In Landmark Ruling, Supreme Court Strikes Down Voluntary Desegregation in Public Schools Friday, June 29, 2007 :
The narrow 5-4 ruling rejected using race as a criteria for assigning students for different schools, rejecting integration plans for school districts in Seattle, Washington and Louisville, Kentucky. We speak with NAACP Legal Defense Fund Director Ted Shaw....
Posted: Fri, Jun 29, 2007 8:02am PDT
At 150, NEA faces tough education issues Friday, June 29, 2007 : The nation’s largest union, the National Education Association, returns to the city where it was founded in 1857 to hold its annual meeting and representative assembly, June 30-July 5....
Posted: Fri, Jun 29, 2007 7:03am PDT
US Supreme Court rules school districts cannot consider race in integration plans Thursday, June 28, 2007 :On Thursday, the last court session before its traditional summer recess, the Supreme Court struck down school integration plans in Seattle, Washington and Louisville, Kentucky, ruling for the first time that local school officials cannot constitutionally consider the race of their students when implementing plans to maintain racial balance among public schools within their districts....
Posted: Thu, Jun 28, 2007 10:33pm PDT
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