The story of how one Haitian school is trying to help its students and teachers, and what it represents for the rest of the country.
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Stopping sex violence in schools
Hey, Shorty! A Guide to Combating Sexual Harassment and Violence in Schools and on the Streets
(The Feminist Press,
2011;
$16.50)
"She deserved it." "She was fast." "She shouldn't have been alone." In 2001, Joanne N. Smith listened as young female students regurgitated the opinions of their parents, teachers, and peers, blaming an eight-year-old victim who had recently been followed, dragged, raped and left bloodied on her way to school.
The threat to democracy posed by Rupert Murdoch's media empire
"People say that Australia has given two people to the world," Julian Assange told me in London recently, "Rupert Murdoch and me." Assange, the founder of the whistle-blowing website Wikileaks, was humbly dismissing my introduction of him, to a crowd of 1,800 at East London's Troxy theater, in which I suggested he had published perhaps more than anyone in the world. He said Murdoch took that publishing prize.
Two days later, the Milly Dowler phone hacking story exploded, and Murdoch would close one of the largest newspapers in the world, his News of the World, within a week.
Social Planning Toronto Symposium: Schools as community hubs
Aug 23 2010 - 1:26pm
Location
Ontario Bar Association Conference Centre
20 Toronto Street
Toronto, ON Canada
43° 39' 0.7236" N, 79° 22' 34.9824" W
See map: Google Maps
In Toronto, a variety of organizations and individuals, from Cabinet Ministers to Mayoral candidates, from Boards of Education to staunch critics of the educational status quo, have been promoting the concept of schools as community hubs. On Friday, September 24, we will have an opportunity to bring together a broad range of individuals and organizations to continue that conversation, exploring the diverse visions for schools in community, the barriers which exist to progress, and the opportunities which currently exist to make progress toward a reality in which schools are at the heart of their communities.
More info: http://us1.campaign-archive.com/?u=a8f54eab94acd8c455bb09550&id=17da949e...
May 21, 2010 |
A report from the B.C. Teachers' Federation shows that despite assertions that there is more funding than ever before, schools are making cuts because increases are less than government downloads.
Watch President Obama's national address to students
After all the fuss of Republicans pulling their kids out of school to prevent them from watching the President's speech, one wonders what all the fuss was about.
Jane-Finch residents speak out on police in schools
On September 4, 2009, Jane-Finch.com reporter Sabrina Gopaul spoke with Jane-Finch residents to get their thoughts about having police in schools.
Interviews include Winston LaRose (Jane-Finch Concerned Citizens Organization), Kurtis Bailey, Jesse Zimmerman, Kabir Joshi-Vijayan (Newly Organized Coalition Opposing Police in Schools), and many other residents.
