Israel shouldn’t brainwash its children
By : Haaretz Editorial - Wednesday July 20, 2011 There is nothing easier than getting preeschoolers to parrot an anthem and getting them excited by chauvinistic and religious ceremonies. The Ministry of Education gave preschool supervisors and teachers a packet for planning and preparation for the coming school year. The first chapter is on "education to Zionist, Jewish, democratic and social values," much like the educational goals for elementary and secondary schools. After perusing it, it is hard to decide whether to laugh or cry: The (...)
read more, comments... "THE WAR ON KIDS" - Trailer.
By : via LL - Thursday March 10, 2011 The War On Kids In 95 minutes, THE WAR ON KIDS exposes the many ways the public school system has failed children and our future by robbing students of all freedoms due largely to irrational fears. Children are... ( plus ) In 95 minutes, THE WAR ON KIDS exposes the many ways the public school system has failed children and our future by robbing students of all freedoms due largely to irrational fears. Children are subjected to endure prison-like security, arbitrary punishments, and (...)
read more, comments... The Faults in the French Educational System Aggravate Social Inequality
By : Isabelle Metral - Sunday December 19, 2010 by Isabelle Metral and reviewed by Bill Scoble Aziz Djellab, professor of sociology at the university of Lille-III, comments on the latest PISA report. Both the media and the French Ministry for National Education were impatiently waiting for its publication: the PISA report [1] has just delivered its verdict. And the verdict is that the French system is getting more and more inegalitarian, and that social class remains a determining factor in students’ achievements. This means (...)
read more, comments... Motion of support for the british students
By : Audrey - Thursday November 18, 2010 Motion carried by the general meeting of students of the University of Le Havre on the 15th of November, 2010. Dear comrades, We have learnt with enthusiasm, that on November the 10th of 2010, 50’000 students and academics marched in the streets of London against the rise of tuition fees and the spending cuts announced in British universities. We are particularly sensitive to these issues. Indeed, the law dealing with the liberties and responsibilities of the universities, which (...)
read more, comments... Youth Organizing Philosophy 101
By : FluxRostrum - Monday September 27, 2010 Guido, from NY2NO & YCCA gives us the run down on the youth organizing principles at play in the collaborative efforts of Our School at Blair Grocery, New York to New Orleans Coalition and the Youth Coalition for Community Action. NY2NO is a non hierarchical student run high school organization that formed after hurricane Katrina to organize volunteer trips from NYC to NOLA. http://www.ourschoolatblairgrocery.org http://www.ny2no.org (...)
read more, comments... Israeli academics boycott settlements
By : Barackobama.ir - Tuesday September 7, 2010 Israeli academics boycott settlements THURSDAY, 02 SEPTEMBER 2010 16:27 Over 150 Israeli academics say they will no longer take part in cultural activities or lecture in the occupied West Bank settlement of Ariel. Press TV reported: In a signed petition, faculty members from universities across Israel vowed not to lecture or participate in any discussions in the illegal settlements area and voiced support for the theater artists who have said they would refuse to perform in this West (...)
read more, comments... Israeli Education Ministry Approves New ’whites-only’ Settlement School
By : IMEMC - Wednesday September 1, 2010 Several months ago, a religious school in the illegal Israeli settlement of Immanuel was criticized for segregating white Jewish students from non-white Jewish students in classes. Ethiopian Jewish student - not allowed to study at new school (photo by Jewish Middlesex) Originally, the school was fined for this policy of racial segregation, because the school was state funded. Now, the Israeli education ministry has agreed with the white parents’ request to allow the school to (...)
read more, comments... Video: John Yoo’ Speech Disrupted at Johns Hopkins University
By : William Hughes - Thursday February 18, 2010 On Wed. evening, Feb. 17, 2010, John Yoo gave a talk on the campus of the Johns Hopkins U., in Baltimore, Md. Before the controversial law professor could get into his talk, however, it was interrupted by two activists. They stood to his right in front of the auditorium and held a banner, which read: “Try Yoo for Torture!” The protesters refused to sit down, but they were not arrested and remained in the same position during Yoo’s entire speech. Yoo had served in the (...)
read more, comments... RECENT THOUGHTS ON EDUCATION
By : JOHN CHUCKMAN - Tuesday February 16, 2010 LEONARD SAX AND MORE ON SEGREGATED EDUCATION AND THE ENTIRE MISDIRECTION OF "PROFESSIONAL EDUCATORS" RESPONSE TO A CBC RADIO ONE PROGRAM ON THE CURRENT Your guest, Leonard Sax, only proved how little genuine scholarship and hard thinking often go into discussions of education. First he told us of research showing the differences in brain development between boys and girls at a young age – actually pretty fatuous research since the difference is a practical reality that any person (...)
read more, comments... BOYCOTT CU, TT & UCB
By : David R. Hoffman, Pravda.Ru Legal Editor - Tuesday October 27, 2009 Ever since America was founded, two of its fundamental institutions—its legal system and its system of higher education—have been synonymous with ethics, integrity and fairness. But beneath the Statue of Justice’s blindfold and within the confines of academia’s ivory towers lurk amoralities, mendacities and biases so virulent that even Machiavelli would blush. Even those who just cursorily follow the news in America cannot help but notice that scarcely a month (and (...)
read more, comments... WARD CHURCHILL AND THE DEATH OF ACADEMIC FREEDOM
By : David R. Hoffman, Pravda.Ru Legal Editor - Saturday July 11, 2009 There is a popular adage that states: “Only two things are certain—death and taxes.” Now there is a third: “It is certain that the constitutional rights of the individual will always be sacrificed to appease a governmental and/or economically powerful entity.” In a recent Pravda.Ru article entitled A TALE OF TWO ACADEMICS, (Parts I and II), I analyzed the diametrical situations faced by two tenured university professors: Ward Churchill and John Yoo. (...)
read more, comments... Croatian students demand right to free education
By : ZAGREB - Monday May 11, 2009 Croatian students demand right to free education By: slobodni filozofski on: 10.05.2009 1st press release in English and German PRESS RELEASE OF THE INDEPENDENT STUDENT INITIATIVE FOR THE RIGHT TO FREE EDUCATION At a moment when the right to education for all is being tacitly eliminated under the bureaucratic code of "participation", by an administrative decree and without prior public discussion, despite the fact that the right to education is recognized as the universal and binding (...)
read more, comments... After Cancelling It Earlier, the University of Oklahoma Reschedules Speech by CIA Agent Michael Scheuer
By : Michael P. Wright - Friday May 1, 2009 Michael P. Wright — Norman, Oklahoma, USA — mpwright8@aol.com On April 29, I posted this report at BellaCiao: The April 29 report describes the cancellation of a speech, scheduled for May 2 at the University of Oklahoma, to be given by CIA agent Michael Scheuer. In OU’s promotional announcement about the speech, Scheuer was described as "the long-time chief of the Bin Laden tracking center." After I started encouraging OU students to ask Scheuer why the CIA did not (...)
read more, comments... Kern’s Krew Collection of Peeping Toms
By : James Nimmo - Saturday December 27, 2008 Kern’s Krew Collection of Peeping Toms by James Nimmo (OKLAHOMA CITY) At the website of Oklahomans for Excellence in Science Education (OESE, http://www.oklascience.org), there is a professional analysis of the latest resurrection of Rep. Sally Kern’s bill that would allow for the recitation of bible verses as "facts" and "evidence" in math and science classes in Oklahoma schools with the teachers forced to accept such balderdash as legitimate answers. Though this bill (...)
read more, comments... Free Education and Free Healthcare are Fundamental Human Rights
By : Zeit-Fragen - Monday December 22, 2008 “Free Education and Free Healthcare are Fundamental Human Rights”- Interview with Juan Antonio Fernández Palacios, Cuban Ambassador in Geneva CC.Since the Cuban Revolution in 1959 the country has often been regarded as an appendix of the Soviet Union. After the collapse of the Soviet Union many people in the West expected an end of the cuban socialism. However, 18 years later, the Cuban system still exists, even more solid than before. After the 1959 revolution the US (...)
read more, comments... New School University occupied @ New York City
By : Orphée - Thursday December 18, 2008 onto à Nettime date 18 décembre 2008 03:20 objet : New School for Social Research is now being OCCUPIED liste de diffusion nettime-l.kein.org >From New York City: We have just occupied New School University. We liberate this space for ourselves, and all those who want to join us, for our general autonomous use. We take the university in explicit solidarity with those occupying the universities and streets in Greece, Italy, France and Spain. This occupation begins as a response to (...)
read more, comments... The Strange Hiring Practices of David Boren at the University of Oklahoma
By : Michael P. Wright - Saturday December 6, 2008 Michael P. Wright – Norman, Oklahoma, USA – mpwright8@aol.com The mentor and sponsor of former CIA director George Tenet has been David Boren, a U.S. Senator from Oklahoma. He was elected to three terms. Boren resigned from the Senate in 1994, with two years remaining on the third term. The year earlier he was being outed as queer in the gay press and also accused of sexually harassing his male staff members. For examples of gay publications with this information, see this (...)
read more, comments... Part II: University of Oklahoma (David Boren’s Campus) Attempts to Obstruct a Federal Investigation
By : Michael P. Wright - Sunday November 30, 2008 Michael P. Wright — Norman, Oklahoma, USA — mpwright8@aol.com [On November 22, 2008, I posted the original report about this event at BellaCiao.] A peculiar email from Paul Bell, a dean at the University of Oklahoma, was sent on Friday, November 21, 2008. Since that time I have obtained verification of it from the OU Open Records Office. It is now scanned and online at this public Facebook album: The recipients were department chairmen and directors on the Norman campus. (...)
read more, comments... The lot of witnesses that "La Repubblica" is missing
By : COBAS UK - Thursday November 27, 2008 There are many people who have been forced out of their jobs and academic careers, from postgraduate researchers to professors, because of bullying in universities in Britain. We know that these same problems exist elsewhere around the world and seems to worsen the more neoliberal policies and ideologies are forced upon Higher Education systems. Sometime the problem of bullying and mobbing in the universities around the world is obscured and difficult to translate as behaviours and (...)
read more, comments... University of Oklahoma (David Boren’s Campus) Obstructing a Federal Investigation
By : Michael P. Wright - Saturday November 22, 2008 Michael P. Wright — Norman, Oklahoma — mpwright8@aol.com For review, David Boren was a U.S. Senator from Oklahoma from 1979 until he resigned from his third term, two years before it expired, in 1994. In 1993 gay activists had begun to out him and accuse him of sexually harassing his male staff members. For examples of gay publications with this information, see this youtube video and the link to excerpts in the accompanying text box: Boren resigned from the Senate after (...)
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