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  • Israel shouldn’t brainwash its children
    20 July 2011 par (Open-Publishing)

    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 (…)

  • "THE WAR ON KIDS" - Trailer.
    10 March 2011 par (Open-Publishing)
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    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 (…)

  • The Faults in the French Educational System Aggravate Social Inequality
    19 December 2010 par (Open-Publishing)

    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 that (…)

  • Motion of support for the british students
    18 November 2010 par (Open-Publishing)

    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 passed (…)

  • Youth Organizing Philosophy 101
    27 September 2010 par (Open-Publishing)

    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
    http://youthcoalition.webs.com

  • Israeli academics boycott settlements
    7 September 2010 par (Open-Publishing)

    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 (…)

  • Israeli Education Ministry Approves New ’whites-only’ Settlement School
    1 September 2010 par (Open-Publishing)

    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 continue (…)

  • Video: John Yoo’ Speech Disrupted at Johns Hopkins University
    18 February 2010 par (Open-Publishing)

    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 administration of the (…)

  • RECENT THOUGHTS ON EDUCATION
    16 February 2010 par (Open-Publishing)

    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 of (…)

  • BOYCOTT CU, TT & UCB
    27 October 2009 par (Open-Publishing)
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    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 sometimes scarcely a (…)