Teaching about STDs through comic books - baltimoresun.com:
Meeting twice a week beginning July 8, the students were asked to write, photograph, draw, scan and digitally edit three stories about sexually transmitted diseases and birth control, and assemble them in a booklet.
Showing posts with label United States. Show all posts
Showing posts with label United States. Show all posts
Sunday
$1 Billion In Tax Dollars To Miseducate Our Children
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| Accountability (Photo credit: Felix42 contra la censura) |
"While the proponents of school choice argue that public schools are not properly equipping children for success in the real world and need to be held accountable, they often reject accountability for private schools that use textbooks that not only are overtly sectarian, but pass off highly controversial assertions – or outright falsehoods – as indisputable fact. All too frequently, low-income children and people of color are used as pawns in this push for what amounts to little more than the right to use taxpayer dollars for right-wing indoctrination."
Thursday
Abraham Lincoln's Cooper Union Address
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| English: Abraham Lincoln - Photo taken in Feb. 1860 by Mathew Brady. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) |
"" However, once Lincoln warmed up, "his face lighted up as with an inward fire; the whole man was transfigured. I forgot his clothes, his personal appearance, and his individual peculiarities. Presently, forgetting myself, I was on my feet like the rest, yelling like a wild Indian, cheering this wonderful man.""
...ero.
Sunday
Red Handed: The Fine Art of Strange Crimes by Matt Kindt
Red Handed: The Fine Art of Strange Crimes by Matt Kindt
this is quirky. i spent most of the read confused but curious. in the end i understood where i'd been taken and how i got there, so i suppose that i am satisfied with the result. the book answers the question: can there be a criminal responsible for a crime not committed? or, to put it another way may a crime mystery be solved if no law has been broken. in both cases, the answer is yes and no. confused? i guess that's the point of it.
The radical MLK we need today - Salon.com
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| Cover of Harry Belafonte |
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| Harry Belafonte at the premiere of the documentary movie "Sing Your Song" about himself at the FriedrichstadtPalast, Berlin, Berlinale 2011 (Photo credit: Wikipedia) |
The radical MLK we need today - Salon.com:
"Harry Belafonte tells a story in his amazing memoir, “My Song,” about King being challenged by his SCLC deputies on his accelerating radicalism generally, and the Poor People’s Campaign specifically, just a week before he died. Describing King as a “socialist and revolutionary thinker,” Belafonte says he clashed with close ally and future Atlanta mayor and U.N. ambassador Andrew Young, over not only the Poor People’s Campaign, but King’s thoroughgoing critique of capitalism. Belafonte quotes King telling the group, gathered at the singer/actor/activist’s New York apartment: “What deeply troubles me now is that for all the steps we’ve taken toward integration, I’ve come to believe that we are integrating into a burning house.”"
Friday
UC Press E-Books Collection, 1982-2004: Browse
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| English: Woman browse books on an unknown library. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) |
University of California Press
E-Books Collection, 1982-2004
includes almost 2,000 books from academic presses on a range of topics, including art, science, history, music, religion, and fiction.
Access to more than 700 of the titles are available to the public Free and Online!
Public Titles Only
Saturday
Why We Need Novellas, Now More Than Ever | The Outlet: the Blog of Electric Literature
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| Electric Outlet (Photo credit: Wikipedia) |
" We crave a respite from the corrosive adolescent sarcasm that’s become American fiction’s defense against a world of true adult feeling."
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