NYTimes Op-Ed Contributor: Let Kids Rule the School

Let kids be in charce of their own learning and curriculum?
Op-Ed Contributor: Let Kids Rule the School: "Eight teens were given the chance to create their own curriculum, and the results have been transformative."

The Learning Network: More Great 'Read-Alouds' From The New York Times

The Learning Network: More Great 'Read-Alouds' From The New York Times: "We've updated last year's popular list of short, engaging Times pieces to read aloud in honor of the March 9 observance of World Read-Aloud Day."

NYTimes: Gay or Straight, Teenagers Aren’t So Different

Gay or Straight, Teenagers Aren’t So Different - NYTimes.com

This fall, when an 18-year-old Rutgers student killed himself after a live video showing him having intimate relations with another young man was transmitted on the Internet, public attention once again focused on the risk of suicide among gay teenagers.

For Saudi Women, Biggest Challenge Is Getting to Play - NYTimes.com

For Saudi Women, Biggest Challenge Is Getting to Play - NYTimes.com:

THE FEMALE FACTOR

In a series of articles, columns and multimedia reports, The International Herald Tribune examines where women stand in the early 21st century.
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Growing Up Digital, Wired for Distraction

Growing Up Digital, Wired for Distraction

via NYT > Education by By MATT RICHTEL on 11/20/10

The constant stream of stimuli offered by new technology poses a profound new challenge to focusing and learning.

Huffington Post - Tabby Biddle: Girl Up: Give a 'High Five' to a Girl in a Developing Country

Tabby Biddle: Girl Up: Give a 'High Five' to a Girl in a Developing Country: "

Did you know that of all the illiterate adults in the world, two-thirds are women? This illiteracy of course is not because women are dumb, it is because many girls around the world are not given the opportunity to go to school.



'Girls are born with a sense of opportunity, ambition, and spirit.' - Queen Rania Al-Abdullah of Jordan, Clinton Global Initiative Annual Meeting 2010

NYTimes Upfront: Cyberbullying Article

From the Teen Voices Section


http://teacher.scholastic.com/scholasticnews/indepth/upfront/voices/index.asp?article=v090610

NYTimes: Tomorrow’s School Lunches

From The New York Times:

EDITORIAL: Tomorrow's School Lunches

The Senate has passed a bill that would improve school nutrition. The House should embrace the legislation and approve it.

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NYTimes - How Concerned Are You About Where Your Food Comes From?

How Concerned Are You About Where Your Food Comes From?: "Student Opinion | Do you care how your food was produced?


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The Way We Live Now: Achieving Techno-Literacy

The Way We Live Now: Achieving Techno-Literacy: "Computers are a tool, not a solution.


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NYT Upfront - "1920 - Women Get the Vote"

September, 2010

After decades of effort by the suffrage movement, the 19th Amendment to the Constitution was ratified 90 years ago this summer

By Sam Roberts

Back in July 1776, the Declaration of Independence proclaimed that all men are created equal, but it didn't say anything about women.

That omission was surely not lost on Abigail Adams. A few months earlier, she had written her husband, John, who was debating independence from England in the Continental Congress in Philadelphia, and urged him to "remember the ladies and be more generous and favorable to them than your ancestors." Otherwise, she warned from their home outside Boston, "we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice or representation."

NYTimes - Two Articles, One Day, False Convictions :(

Ex-Inmate’s Dilemma: $2.2 Million or a Lawsuit

BY JAMES C. MCKINLEY JR.

Exonerated of a rape charge, a Texas man was offered $2.2 million if he chose not to file a civil lawsuit.

Man Settles Wrongful-Conviction Case for $7.95 Million

BY REBECCA CATHCART

Thomas Lee Goldstein, who spent 24 years imprisoned for a murder he did not commit, sued the police in Long Beach, Calif., for withholding evidence in his 1980 trial.

NYTimes: But Will It Make You Happy?

By STEPHANIE ROSENBLOOM

Published: August 7, 2010

SHE had so much.

A two-bedroom apartment. Two cars. Enough wedding china to serve two dozen people.

Yet Tammy Strobel wasn’t happy. Working as a project manager with an investment management firm in Davis, Calif., and making about $40,000 a year, she was, as she put it, caught in the “work-spend treadmill.”

So one day she stepped off.

The End of Men - Magazine - The Atlantic

The End of Men - Magazine - The Atlantic

Women are dominating society as never before.

NATIONAL HANNA ROSIN

Earlier this year, women became the majority of the workforce for the first time in U.S. history. Most managers are now women too. And for every two men who get a college degree this year, three women will do the same. For years, women’s progress has been cast as a struggle for equality. But what if equality isn’t the end point? What if modern, postindustrial society is simply better suited to women? A report on the unprecedented role reversal now under way— and its vast cultural consequences

BY HANNA ROSIN

IMAGE CREDIT: JOHN RITTER

Political Times - Race - Still Too Hot to Touch - NYTimes.com

Political Times - Race - Still Too Hot to Touch - NYTimes.com

Paula Scher

Why hasn’t America moved beyond the old, stultifying debate on race in the age of Obama?