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yesterday in class
me: Name Redacted is a talented person your age who has managed to change the world… students: we know, we suck… me: (face drops, palm comes up to face) you are taking exactly the wrong message from this example… me: (wordlessly, but should have been given breath) I have faith in you. You are as…
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afrolatinoforum: Join us at the New York Premiere of Chocó, critically acclaimed as one of the most groundbreaking AfroColombian films. New York Premiere of Chocó Sunday March 24, 20134:00pmTriBeCa Cinemas We are very excited to promote Chocó, which is one of the most groundbreaking AfroColombian films and will be having its New York Premiere during the 1st Annual Colombian Film Festival…
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Techno-utopianism is a dead end, and so is TED
stoweboyd: Umair Haque suggests that ‘TED thinking’ — the sort that underlies the techno-utopianism behind the TED conference and much of the triumphalist ‘we can do anything’ discourse on the web — does an injustice to the power of ideas, and trivializes the issues we are confronted with. Umair Haque, Let’s Save Great Ideas from the…
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kateoplis: “Pablo Escobar said to me: ‘One shot to the head isn’t enough. It has to be two shots, just above the eyes.’” Jhon Velásquez, nicknamed “Popeye,” is sitting on a white plastic chair in the prison yard. “You can survive one shot, but never two. I cut up the bodies and threw them in…
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theatlantic: Men Should Consider Changing Their Last Names When They Get Married Having the same name is one more way of making public and concrete your intention to stay together for the long haul. But why should that mean that the woman takes the man’sname in heterosexual marriages? Why should the man not take the woman’s…
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I ♥ E-Poetry Advisory Board
floresuprm: I am happy to announce that I ♥ E-Poetry now has an advisory board, consisting of three prestigious members of the electronic literature community (in alphabetical order): Kathi Inman Berens teaches at the University of Southern California’s Annenberg School of Communication and is a Fellow at the Annenberg Innovation Lab, where she works on…
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start where you are. use what you have. do what you can. – Arthur Ashe
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Report: Poor U.S. Students Receive Developing-World Educations
Report: Poor U.S. Students Receive Developing-World Educations kateoplis: The findings, compiled by the Equity and Excellence Commission — an independent group consisting of more than two dozen leaders in the education field — further estimate that racial disparities in education cost the country about $50 trillion in unfulfilled earning potential. If African-American and Hispanic students performed…
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I can’t help but mourn the passing of my set of Britannicas
stoweboyd: “I can’t help but mourn the passing of my set of Britannicas, but I do not mourn the passing of the institution. Encyclopædias have passed their use-by-date as fitting symbols for the esteem in which we hold culture and learning. The world is changing, and books, magazines and education have to change with it.…
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“Impressive Denver study on equity & transit should become national model Kaid Benfield. May 4, 2012 Transit analysts Reconnecting America and the Denver equity coalition Mile High Connects have released an impressive compendium of maps and research showing how expansion of that city’s transit system could bring major opportunity to traditionally underserved populations – if local agencies take…