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24th Jun2011
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24th Jun2011
Black Male Teachers Scarce – But Needed
by Mr.ChollyHudnall – Newsvine.com
Tigrett Middle School eighth-grader Bobby Bond credits his fifth-grade teacher as the first to encourage him as a student.He was the first black man that I’ve had for a teacher,” said Bond, 13, who is also black. “He always told me to do my best. He would sit and talk to me, and he mentored me.”
Bond said he has a positive relationship with his eighth-grade science teacher, Ray Yancy, who is also black.
“He’s a good example,” Bond said. “He’s encouraged me.”
But there aren’t many black male teachers for Bond to look up to.
Black men make up 5 percent of Jackson-Madison County Schools’ 1,140 teachers. Only four black men teach on the elementary level, while there are 36 in the high schools, according to the school system’s human resource department. Black men and women make up about 28 percent of the teachers in the system, while about 60 percent of the student population is black.
Educators say it is important for black students, particularly boys, to see positive black role models in the classroom. Black male teachers are important mentors, and in some cases father figures, to black male students. The (more…)
24th Jun2011
No I.D. Presents: Cocaine 80′s – The Pursuit EP (Album)
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Soooo I dont know very much about this project as it is still developing, but what I can tell you is that this group “C0caine80′s” consists of: No I.D., Common (Sense), Steve Wyreman, Rob Kinelski, Kevin Randolph, James Fauntleroy, Makeba and some other people I’ve never heard of. A little preview song above…
24th Jun2011
Nettelhorst Elementary School’s Remarkable Turnaround
THE MOM BRIGADE: Nettelhorst was a failing educational backwater in Lake View (Chicago, Illinois) when some determined moms got involved-and sparked a tremendous improvement.
On a windy morning this past fall, 20 parents gathered inside Nettelhorst Elementary School in east Lake View, some with paper coffee cups and notebooks in hand. Greeting them was Jacqueline Edelberg, an apt choice for a guide given that the 43-year-old mother of two spearheaded the school‘s remarkable turnaround and wrote a book about the experience.
With her auburn hair pulled back into a ponytail, Edelberg lifted a black-and-white tote bag bearing the words “Obama, Hope, Change” over her shoulder and ushered the group down the hallway. “Everything you see with an ounce of color, we’ve done,” she told the parents, explaining how, roughly a decade ago, eight mothers set out to perk up their ailing neighborhood school.
What began as a quick six-month makeover-painting halls, floors, doors, and walls and (more…)
24th Jun2011
Philly Reaches Settlement In ‘Stop and Frisk’ Suit
A court-appointed monitor will oversee the use of “stop and frisk” searches by city police, a high-profile part of the mayor‘s efforts to combat violent crime, according to a settlement agreement announced Tuesday.
Authorities also will take additional steps to make sure the stops are only made when there is reasonable suspicion of criminal conduct.
The settlement stems from a federal lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union in November alleging that the searches were violating the rights of blacks and Latinos who had done nothing wrong. The ACLU sued on behalf of eight men — including a state lawmaker — it says were subjected to illegal searches since the city started using “stop and frisk,” a controversial element of Mayor Michael Nutter’s 2007 mayoral campaign.
As part of the agreement, the city denies wrongdoing and denies claims made by the plaintiffs.
The city agrees to provide the plaintiffs with documentation of stops made during certain periods between 2006 and (more…)
23rd Jun2011
23rd Jun2011
Conspiracy of Silence – Illuminati Pedophiles in Washington D.C. (Full Documentary)
From Senator John Decamp: In mid-1993, after The Franklin Cover-Up had been circulating for almost a year, the British-based TV station, Yorkshire Television, sent a top-notch team to Nebraska to launch its own investigation of the Franklin case. Yorkshire had a contract with the Discovery Channel to produce a documentary on the case for American television. Finally, the big day came. Their documentary was to air nation-wide on the Discovery Channel on May 3, 1994. It was advertised in the TV Guide and in newspapers for that day. But no one ever saw that program. At the last minute, and without explanation, it was pulled from the air. It was not shown then, and has never been broadcast anywhere since. I have a copy of that program, which arrived anonymously in my mail in late 1995. When I watched this pirated copy, I could see clearly why the program had been suppressed. Conspiracy of Silence proved, beyond doubt, that the essential points I had stressed in the book (and more) were all true.
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23rd Jun2011
Philly Do-It-All Moms Spill The Beans
It’s a topic often shuttered behind backyard fences or resigned to a picture-frame in the corner of an office.
The disquieting crossroads where motherhood confronts job ambition comes into full view in a new anthology of women‘s reflections, “Torn: True Stories of Kids, Career, and the Conflict of Modern Motherhood.”
Compiling the work of highly ambitious, working women from urban areas across the United States, San Francisco-based editor Samantha Parent Walravens hoped to shed a light on an all-too-familiar dilemma faced torturously by educated moms everywhere.
“…Quitting my job to be a stay-at-home mom is not what I had hoped for or expected of myself; nor did I find the experience of changing dirty diapers and breast feeding every two hours fulfilling or rewarding,” she points out in the book‘s introduction.
By compiling the stories, she hopes women can achieve a sense of freedom, and community, knowing “there is no perfect mother, nor is there a perfect balance between kids and career,” she writes.
A few excerpts from Philly and New Jersey contributors to “Torn”:
Sara Esther Crispe, “Need. To. Slow. Down”
“At 8:30 a.m. I popped up in bed realizing that their chartered bus had left about 20 minutes earlier,” writes Crispe, the (more…)
23rd Jun2011
Senator Sanders Breaks Down The Koch Echo Chamber
EXPOSE THE KOCHS: The Koch brothers fund multiple think tanks and academic centers to promote their ideology and grow their profits, a Brave New Foundation investigation reveals. Let’s create an echo chamber of truth by using YouTube’s SHARE tools above to protect Social Security and counter the Koch billions. http://KochBrothersExposed.com/socialsecurity
23rd Jun2011
Researchers Inject Nanofiber Spheres Carrying Cells Into Wounds To Grow Tissue
For the first time, scientists have made star-shaped, biodegradable polymers that can self-assemble into hollow, nanofiber spheres, and when the spheres are injected with cells into wounds, these spheres biodegrade, but the cells live on to form new tissue.
Developing this nanofiber sphere as a cell carrier that simulates the natural growing environment of the cell is a very significant advance in tissue repair, says Peter Ma, professor at the University of Michigan School of Dentistry and lead author of a paper about the research scheduled for advanced online publication in Nature Materials. Co-authors are Xiaohua Liu and Xiaobing Jin.
Repairing tissue is very difficult and success is extremely limited by a shortage of donor tissue, says Ma, who also has an appointment at the U-M College of Engineering. The procedure gives hope to people with certain types of cartilage injuries for which there aren’t good treatments now. It also provides a better alternative to ACI, which is a clinical method of treating cartilage injuries where the patient’s own cells are directly injected into the patient’s body. The quality of the tissue repair by the ACI technique isn’t (more…)
23rd Jun2011
If A Stranger Asked You In-Person The Same Questions Facebook Does, What Would You Say?
Imagine you’re at the mall one day, happily shopping around when all of a sudden, someone walks up to you and starts asking you questions like what your sexual preference is; what your email address is; what your telephone number is; what you’re doing there at the mall, etc. How would you respond?
The juxtaposition of our online habits with our offline habits is uniquely presented in one of the most hilarious videos I’ve seen in quite a while. It’s great seeing common perceptions of online and offline expectations being exploited in this manner, so I couldn’t help but bring more awareness to it and find out what YOU would do in a similar scenario!
Now, I realize the societal and cultural reasons why people would typically react with reservation/hostility when being forcibly propositioned with these types of questions — not to mention the intent of one person asking you these questions vs. you answering them while signing up for a social networking site — but the point of the end result remains the same: if you wouldn’t want a completely random stranger to know some of these things about you in-person, why are you so willing to give this information to Facebook or other social networking/media platforms and the complete strangers who inhabit them?
At the very least, the video above puts into perspective the legitimate need for privacy and why social networking platforms should err on the side of privacy in all cases. For many of us, privacy is a no-brainer and we immediately set our accounts up in exactly the ways we intend for them to be viewed. But for many others, signing up on social networking sites is almost a necessity these days (more…)
22nd Jun2011
A Microscope Could Detect Cancer By Scanning Skin
Instead of taking a biopsy and waiting on the results to come back, doctors could someday use a special, flat microscope to scan the skin to check for skin cancer right there in their office.
German researchers have developed a microscope that can scan large areas. The team of researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Optics and Precision Engineering IOF in Jena developed a flat, ultrathin microscope that records all of the image slices at the same time and compiles all of the slices into one image using a computer.
“Essentially, we can examine a field as large as we want. At five micrometers, the resolution is (more…)
22nd Jun2011
White House Internship Program – Spring 2012
Things to Know:The application period for the Spring 2012 White House Internship Program is now open. Applicants have until September 11, 2011 to apply for a Spring 2012 White House Internship. Please read instructions below and refer to our FAQ page for additional explanations.
The following are important questions to ask yourself before and after submitting your internship application. The link to apply can be found at the bottom of this page, but please read all instructions before starting your application.
Am I eligible to apply for a White House Internship?
All White House Internship Program participants must be:
- United States citizens
- At least 18 years of age on or before the first day of the internship
- Currently enrolled in an undergraduate or graduate program at a college, community college or university OR graduated in the past two years from undergraduate or graduate program at a college, community college or university
OR
- A veteran of the United States Armed Forces who possesses a high school diploma or its equivalent and has served on active duty at any time over the past two years
Am I available for the Spring 2012 internship program?
All White House Interns are expected to intern full-time for the entire term of the program: (more…)
