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Sep 01, 2008; Burke, Sara ... Children are miraculous, truly. Whether tumbling over themselves in the effort to conform to social expectations, or busting out and yowling their own brand new, unique song into the universe, the light of their youth and determination shines through and makes working with them incredibly ...
Beyond "No Child Left Behind"
Sep 01, 2008; Neill, Monty ... With more pressing issues on its agenda and no consensus about how to proceed, Congress probably will delay until after this November's elections the reauthorization of No Child Left Behind (NCLB), a framework of standards, tests, and consequences initiated by the 1994 authorization of the ...
New Life for High School Civics
Sep 01, 2008; Clemente, Courtney ... Youth Organizers Campaign Successfully for Better Classes Walking through the streets of Boston's Jamaica Plain neighborhood, one may think of 'today's troubled youth,' or 'inner city violence,' and Jamaica Plain does have a reputation for gang behavior, violence, and drug use among its ...
Focusing on the Children
Sep 01, 2008; Price, Barbara ... Focusing on the Children Early Childhood Programs in Conflicts Around the World Wow, what an experience. From Conflict to Peace Building: The Power of Early Childhood Initiatives is not an easy read. It requires all of your attention, your thought, your action. It makes you ...
Homeschooling Leaves Home
Sep 01, 2008; Sheffer, Susannah ... A Resource Center for Teenagers Who Choose to Leave School Elizabeth arrives at 9:00 and together we go upstairs to the tiny room with comfortable chairs, a bookcase, art postcards on the walls. We walk past a few other teenagers who are curled up reading, or sprawled out on the couches ...
The Joys and Challenges of Public Schools
Sep 01, 2008; Gomez, Curtis; Kelly, Kathleen; Graustein, Lisa; Noonan, James; Burke, Sara ... An Activist Roundtable How didyou come to your involvement in public schools - and what is most engaging to you about the work you do there? CURTIS: I went through public schools as a student with a learning disability. A lot of teachers only taught one way, but kids have many ...
Countering Military Recruitment in Schools
Sep 01, 2008; Diener, Sam ... Pat Elder of the DC Anti-War Network (DAWN) points out that the military's total Active Duty Accessions for fiscal year 2007 were 181,172, and the total Guard/Reserve Accessions were 138,057, for a total of 319,229 people who entered US boot camp. This works out to over 874 people per day, over ...
A Maine Activist Walks in Solidarity with the Undocumented
Sep 01, 2008; Anonymous ... Sponsored by Centre Presente, Organization Maya Klche, United for a Fair Economy, and the Center to Support Immigrant Organizing.To learn more, visit www.celebratingjim.net. On Tuesday, August 5th, Jim Harney (see p.24) began a walk from Boston to New Haven via New Bedford, site of the ...
Caucasus Burning
Sep 01, 2008; de Waal, Thomas ... So much has been left in ruins in the Caucasus in the past week. What chance is there of a salvage operation? The landscape is littered with wreckage. First, South Ossetia was ravaged; now Georgia is experiencing a great tragedy. Amid the carnage, the greatest losers are the 25,000 or so ...
A People and a Poet
Sep 01, 2008; Barakat, Ibtisam ... The Voice of Mahmoud Darwish On Saturday August 9th in the afternoon, I was getting ready to give a talk about Palestinian olive trees to a gathering of authors and thinkers at Keystone College in Pennsylvania. For the title of the presentation, I cracked the word olive in two, and ...
Well Beyond Abu Ghraib
Sep 01, 2008; Pearlstein, Deborah ... Expert Testimony on the Effects of US Torture Policy Over the three and a half years, I had occasion to travel to Guantanamo Bay; meet with Iraqi and Afghan nationals who had been victims of gross abuse in US detention facilities there; consult with military service-members and medical ...
BITS & PEACES
Sep 01, 2008; Anonymous ... EVENTS An evening with Frances Moore Lappe: The Annual Pat Farren Lecture to Benefit Peacework Magazine, 9/10,7pm (6 pm reception); Cambridge Friends Meetinghouse at 5 Longfellow Park (off Brattle St.); $35 sliding scale, $5 for highschool-age; introduction by Jill Stein; Frances Moore ...
First Anniversary of the US Social Forum
Sep 01, 2008; Anonymous ... Just over a year ago from June 27 to July 1, 2007, we were making history at the first-ever US Social Forum (USSF)! We brought together more than 12,000 people from 64 countries and diverse sectors from all over the US and various Indigenous Nations to declare that 'Another World is Possible"and ...
Human Rights Workers Sail Jubilantly into Gaza
Sep 01, 2008; Anonymous ... Free Gaza Is a coalition of human rights observers, aid workers, and journalists who are responding to the Israeli siege of Gaza with nonviolent direct action. For more information visit www.freegaza.org. August 23 -Two small boats, the SS Free Gaza and the SS Liberty, successfully ...
New York Yearly Meeting of Friends: A Minute on Torture
Sep 01, 2008; Anonymous ... New York Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) approved this minute on July 25, 2008. NYYM, 15 Rutherford Place, New York NY10003; www.nyym.org New York Yearly Meeting joins with the voices of people of conscience everywhere to decry the use of torture by the ...