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BENEFITING: RANDOM ACTS EVENT DATE: Jun 14, 2012 DEADLINE TO GIVE: Jul 31, 2012 HERE'S THE STORY: Two years ago, after a destructive and devastating earthquake ravaged Haiti, Random Acts provided major funding for a journey to Jacmel to assist in rebuilding homes, communities and lives. During our initial visit, a dental clinic was reconstructed, an orphanage was refurbished and a carpentry school with 1600 donated tools was founded.
Hope to Haiti 2012 | RANDOM ACTS's Fundraiser on Crowdrise
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Dear Friend, We have a lot to be grateful for at GEMS. Thanks to supporters like you, more than $25,000 were raised in our matching-gift challenge–which means that every dollar was doubled by two anonymous donors.
Anyone who's had any recent experience with the American education system knows that most of the time, it's not an inherently queer-friendly place. From the locker room at gym to the video about where babies come from in health class, it's a straight straight world out there.
We Don’t Need No Education (That Doesn’t Recognize Queer Identities)
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With their district already under an embarrassing desegregation order, the Governing Board of the Tucson Unified School District acquiesced to the demands of notorious Tea Party state officials last night and voted 4-1 to terminate the city's nationally acclaimed Ethnic Studies/Mexican American Studies program.
Jeff Biggers: Day After in Tucson: As School Board Padlocks Program, Mexican American Studies Will Rise Again in Courts and 2012 Election
Who's afraid of "The Tempest"? - Books - Salon.com
Over three decades, Alison Bechdel’s comics have grown increasingly intimate.
At universities, educational software largely means enterprise-scale, expensive, feature-stuffed "learning management systems." Blackboard has the majority of the market, but professors and students are about as enthusiastic about its various updates, crashes, and bugs as people are with the latest version of Windows (Blackboard scores a whopping 93% "hated" rating on website Amplicate ).
The Ingenious Business Model Behind Coursekit, A Tumblr For Higher Education | Fast Company
The 5 Best Toys of All Time | GeekDad | Wired.com
"Treasure Box" photo by Flickr user Evelyn Giggles. Used under Creative Commons License. Here at GeekDad we review a lot of products — books, toys, gadgets, software — and I know it’s impossible for most parents to actually afford all of the cool stuff that gets written up.
Online coursework brings lessons to anyone with a computer, but does it forget the importance of trained educators? Salman Khan, a former hedge fund analyst, started the non-profit Khan Academy in 2006 as a way to bring free, online education to students and educators all over the world. He got the idea after using his webcam and basic software to tutor his younger cousin in maths.
Can virtual classrooms change the way we learn? | The Stream - Al Jazeera English
An Illinois teacher at Eureka High School is on paid suspension for showing clips of "The Daily Show" in school. Rhett Felix, a first-year government and law teacher, showed three segments from Jon Stewart's show to his sophomore-level class, The Pantagraph reports. Parents of the students complained that the clips had obscenities, sexual content and the perception that the teacher carries liberal bias.
Rhett Felix, Illinois Teacher, Suspended For Showing Jon Stewart 'Daily Show' Clips In Class
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