 - ONE | Bus Tour
 Oct 8, 1:48pm  (1 review) activism, intl-development, education, trade, one http://one.org/bustour/- The ONE Bus is touring the country to raise awareness and recruit new members. Use the map to see where it's already been, and then check out "Upcoming Stops" to see if it's coming by you.
- Double Helix: The Environment Is the Economy | Science &Religion | ReligionDisp...
- Oct 8, 12:26pm
 (1 review) environment, education, politics, religion http://www.religiondispatches.org/archiv... - If science and religion had learned to work together, would we be in the same position, fighting two wars, increasing water shortages, rising energy costs and a tanking economy? Probably not.
- Tinkering with Creation: Intelligent Design 2.0 | ReligionDispatches
- Oct 4, 7:47am (2 reviews) evolution, education, politics, creationism http://www.religiondispatches.org/archiv...
- Amid new rumors of man and dinosaur coexistence, the Texas Board of Education will be debating the "strengths and weaknesses" of evolution and deciding whether to force religion into science class.
- The LAMP ยป About Us
- Oct 1, 11:54am (1 review) alternative-news, multimedia, education, media, information http://www.thelampnyc.org/about/
- The LAMP (Learning About Multimedia Project) provides critical media literacy skills to the inter-related groups of youths, their parents and educators throughout New York City. Our media literacy workshops demystify the constant flow of media these three groups encounter, bridge the gap between generations, and provide workforce development skills for future generations. The LAMP's staff learns and explores new media trends in order to properly steer the LAMP in the direction where it can provide the most benefit to the community at large.
Why is multimedia literacy necessary? Our economy, our communities, the information and entertainment we access, and even our personal relationships are ever more dependent upon the production and flow of information, and increasingly through digital means. This shift requires that we have new competencies and concepts for understanding and responding to different media, while also keeping the Internet experience for youth and adults both fulfilling and safe. Competency in multimedia (or multimedia literacy) allows us to make sense of our media-saturated environment, chart a course for navigating it, and especially to make use of the opportunities which media and the mediated environment bring.
- Teachers 4 Social Justice
- Sep 28, 8:15pm (2 reviews) activism, education, social-justice http://www.t4sj.org/templates/System/def...
Teachers 4 Social Justice
We are a grassroots non-profit teacher support and development organization.
Our mission is to provide opportunities for self-transformation, leadership, and community building to educators in order to affect meaningful change in the classroom, school, community and society.
T4SJ organizes teachers and community-based educators and implements programs and projects that develop empowering learning environments, more equitable access to resources and power, and realizing a just and caring culture.
- SNCC 1960-1966: Six years of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee...
- Sep 18, 8:38am (1 review) education http://www.ibiblio.org/sncc/
- Mike the Mad Biologist : Is Molecular Evolution a Good Way to Teach High...
- Aug 26, 5:35pm (1 review) evolution, genetics, education http://scienceblogs.com/mikethemadbiolog...
- In the midst of the kerfuffle about atheism, religion, and teaching evolution in high school, the NY Times article made me wonder if focusing part of the curriculum on molecular evolution would be a better way of teaching evolutionary biology* (and ScienceBlogling Sandra describes some good ways of doing so).
I pose this as a question--it could be a dreadful idea, but here are some things to consider:
1. Molecular biology is viewed as more 'scientific.' Like it or not (and I don't), molecular biology is viewed as more rigorous than organismal biology.
2. DNA sequence is pretty easy to understand. A, T, C, and G, which then gets translated into proteins. This is not 'fuzzy', nor does it require extensive organismal knowledge (yes, I realize molecular evoluiton is far more complex than this, but we don't teach string theory to fifteen year-olds either).
3. If students have access to the internet (and perhaps computers), they can do their own analyses. Between Genbank and most analysis programs either being very cheap or freeware, students could design their own projects (although cutting open a fetal pig is kinda cool...).
4. There are some very good natural history and laboratory examples of molecular evolution.
5. Teaching basic phylogenetics is a lot easier with molecular data than with fossil data. Again, it's that four-character state thing.
6. I think it's harder to 'explain away' the molecular evidence for evolution than the organismal evidence (or at least, the creationists have less practice at it).
Mind you, I'm not saying we should get rid of the organismal approaches to teaching evolution, but do you think more of an emphasis on the molecular evidence for evolution would work?
- The Next Big Deal. Invest in Americas Future
- Aug 26, 12:36pm (1 review) activism, education, health-care, clean-energy http://www.angelahayden.com/2008/08/next...
- The plan:
* Guarantees quality, affordable health care for all
* Expands access to education, from early childhood through college
* Develops a clean energy economy and frees us from dependence on fossil fuels and foreign oil
- Interview with Sandra Tsing Loh, "Mother on Fire" | Salon Life
- Aug 19, 7:48am (1 review) education, books, children, motherhood, amy-reiter http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2008/08...
- Those people haven't read Loh's hilarious new book, "Mother on Fire: A True Motherf%#$@ Story About Parenting." Or maybe they just don't live in a big city and have kids they can't afford to send to private school. Anyone who does will be riveted by Loh's lively, furiously paced, brutally frank account of her own search for a school for the elder of her two daughters -- or, as she dubs it, "the year I exploded into flames." They will also undoubtedly, and regretfully, recognize their own shameful insanity, their own unshakable obsessions, their own false starts and interludes in which they followed false prophets (private school admissions officers, mothers who think they have all the answers, therapists who live cloistered, tastefully appointed lives).
- On Day One - Your Ideas For a Better World | Global Leadership on Womens...
- Aug 16, 7:40pm (1 review) alternative-news, health, education, womens-health http://www.ondayone.org/node/3695
- From the page: "tags: Global Women's Issues, education, Health, women's health
On Day One, the next president should fulfill our global commitments to women and girls around the world by helping ensure that everyone has an opportunity for education, can earn a livelihood and have access to health services."
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