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Indian-Americans Decry Attempts by Hindu Supremacist Groups to Rewrite India’s History Palo Alto, CA, January 10, 2006 -- A coalition of American groups representing the immigrant communities from the Indian subcontinent, led by Friends of South Asia (FOSA), have taken strong exception to numerous misrepresentations of India’s ancient history and of Hinduism recently put forward by the Vedic Foundation (VF) and the Hindu Education Foundation (HEF) for incorporation into Grade 6 History/Social Sciences textbooks in California....
Posted: Thu, Jan 12, 2006 12:39am PST
You Don’t need a diploma to go to jail 
Thousands of children of color are struggling to learn in West Contra Costa County. The people organize a Town Hall....
Posted: Wed, Jan 11, 2006 2:38pm PST
Who Reads in America? While many educators bemoan the decline of literacy in America, one writer says you can still find plenty of readers in the private corners and cracks of society....
Posted: Mon, Jan 9, 2006 9:32pm PST
Scotland hails Terminator who Credits Escutia; Wales next to rid schools of fizzy drinks It's surprising that such lame half-measures are being debated in places like Arizona and Illinois in response to the problem of soda in schools given the decisive action taken by France, England and Scotland and most of the major US districts....
Posted: Mon, Jan 9, 2006 6:01pm PST
3/13-17th: National Week of Campus Action Against the War NATIONAL WEEK OF CAMPUS ACTION
Week of March 13-17
Students Say NO to War in Iraq!
College Not Combat, Troops Out Now!...
Posted: Wed, Jan 4, 2006 11:38pm PST
D’s and F’s For ‘No Child Left Behind’ Nearly four years into the federal No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) the nation’s urban school districts have shown little benefit from the law which mandated annual reading and math tests for all students in grades 3 through 8. But the most worrisome trend is that most urban schools are making no progress in reducing the achievement gap between white and minority students. That’s the word from eleven large urban school districts including Los Angeles....
Posted: Tue, Jan 3, 2006 10:20pm PST
1/2Mon7pm Matt Gonzalez Interviews Green Party School Bd Member Sarah Lipson intheRichmond Matt Gonzalez interviews Sarah Lipson Green Party Member of School Bd....
Posted: Mon, Jan 2, 2006 2:41pm PST
The Way of the Hero and the Loss of the Center The demystification of the world through science is both a gain in enlightenment and a loss.. Natural phenomena have lost their symbolic content.. We no longer experience ourselves as part of a world in which everything is significant.. Myths, fairytales and biblical stories give us maps for our journey....
Posted: Sat, Dec 24, 2005 7:41am PST
Free Skool Classes: Wednesdays January 2006. 6:30pm-8:30pm 1/11/06 - Anxiety, Panic, Stress
Explore these feeling and ways for living w/ them.
1/18/06 - Being an Ally to People with Mental Distress
This is a class for you if you have friends and
family who you want to support. And for every
radical who see addressing Mental Health as a
part of revolutionary struggle.
1/25/06 - Relations...
Posted: Tue, Dec 20, 2005 11:39am PST
'Intelligent design' KO'd in Pennsylvania "Intelligent design" is "a religious alternative masquerading as a scientific theory" and cannot be mentioned in biology classes in a Pennsylvania public school district, a federal judge said Tuesday, ruling in one of the biggest courtroom clashes on evolution since the 1925 Scopes trial....
Posted: Tue, Dec 20, 2005 11:07am PST
Agents' visit chills UMass Dartmouth senior government monitoring of our reading...
Posted: Mon, Dec 19, 2005 11:26am PST
No Peace in Southern Indiana: Teacher Fired for Talking About Peace? By JEFF WHITE...
Posted: Sun, Dec 18, 2005 11:11am PST
Oakland Teacher Replies to Tribune Editorial The 12/16/05 Oakland Tribune attacked Oakland teachers for "boorish behavior" when we attended the 12/14/05 meeting of the Oakland School Board to press our contract demands and confront dictatorial State Administrator Randolph Ward. Here Oakland teacher and OEA activist Jack Gerson replies....
Posted: Sat, Dec 17, 2005 9:53pm PST
Chomsky na 'Folha' e no mundo A Folha de S. Paulo não se contenta com inverter o sentido da notícia. Mesmo diante do resultado da pesquisa, a Prospect teve a precaução de não tomar a preferência de seus vinte mil leitores como expressão da unanimidade mundial. Na capa do seu número 116, de novembro, que publica os resultados da pesquisa, o reconhecimento de Chomsky como intelectual público mais influente do mundo não é afirmado como verdade mas atenuado por um eloqüente ponto de interrogação, que a Folha suprimiu para tra...
Posted: Sat, Dec 17, 2005 3:19am PST
Teachers ramp up talk of a strike
Angry words fly at city school board meeting; district, union w ...
Posted: Fri, Dec 16, 2005 10:52pm PST
Neurotoxic Artificial Sweetener Banning Moves Forward in UK and New Mexico: Cal Next? California could be leading this effort, if consumers concerned about a neurotoxin routinely added to food and children's medication that turns to formaldehyde would take the time to write to Cal. Deputy A.G. Ed Weil, since Aspartame is as bad or worse than Acrylamides in French Fries...
Posted: Fri, Dec 16, 2005 9:27am PST
Balboa High School and Lincoln High in the final Balboa High School and Lincoln High School reached the finals on Turkey Day and played a good football game. The score was 21-20 in favor of Lincoln High School. There was a very decent turn out at Kezar Stadium in San Francisco to watch a really good game with the High School students, parents, teachers, former students, friends, coaches, principals - all having a good time....
Posted: Fri, Dec 16, 2005 8:23am PST
Black Farmers in America ~ Restore Agriculture as Foundation of Black Culture 7th Annual ~ California Kwanzaa Agricultural Exposition 2005
'Restoring Agriculture as the Foundation of Black Culture’
2863 35th Avenue @ Broadway ~ Historic Oak Park District
Sacramento, California
Saturday, December 17, 2005 Noon - 5:00 p.m. Free Registration...
Posted: Thu, Dec 15, 2005 4:10pm PST
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