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An Appeal to Educators and Scholars of Color: Please Sign This Statement!
Kevin Kumashiro, leader of a Deans for Justice and Equity, has written an appeal addressed to Educators and Scholars of Color. It invites their endorsement of a statement opposing failed “reforms” that have stigmatized and harmed children of color and other vulnerable students. Please share this statement with your friends and colleagues. Invite them to sign to demonstrate that they do not believe that failed “reforms” should be foisted on students who need experienced teachers and well-funded classrooms.
Dear Friends and Colleagues: All educators of color and educational scholars of color in the United States are invited to sign onto a statement (“This Must End Now: Educators and Scholars of Color Against Failed Educational “Reforms”) that calls for an end to billionaire-backed, so-called “reforms” that are devastating schools, particularly for students of color and low-income students.
If you are eligible, please review the statement and consider joining this nationwide…
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Simple Steps to Organize an Argument Essay
You’ve created a strong thesis statement, you’ve compiled your research, you may have even written your intro, but where do you go from here? Are you stumped about how exactly to put all of this information together?
Organizing a long research paper can be a daunting task, but fear not! Read on for a quick and easy way to lay out your argument essay. This organization method is only one option, and your instructor may have a preferred method, but if you are lost, this is a great road map to get you unstuck.
Start with Your Thesis
To begin, you’ll need to write down your thesis statement.
Thesis: The US should implement a cross-country high-speed rail system.
Now you have to answer the big question: Why should the US implement a cross-country high-speed rail system?
Reasoning out an Argument
Answering this question in a series of what we’ll…
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Celebration: A Poem for World Poetry Day
Today is World Poetry Day.
Denise Levertov (1923-1997) British-born American poet, known for her anti-Vietnam war poems in the 1960s and 1970s, which also included themes of destruction by greed, racism, and sexism. Her later poetry reflects her conversion to Catholicism. No matter the subject, she was always an acute observer, and wrote with a rare combination of economy and grace. Levertov was the author of 24 books of poetry, as well as non-fiction, and she served as poetry editor of The Nation and Mother Jones. She was honored with the Robert Frost Medal in 1990, and the Lannan Literary Award for Poetry in 1993. In 1997, Levertov died from complications of lymphoma at the age of seventy-four.
“Celebration” is one of the last poems she wrote before her death, but it is a poem full of life.
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To read Denise Levertov’s poem, Celebration, click:
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ON THIS DAY: March 20, 2020
March 20th is
Won’t You Be My Neighbor Day *
Alien Abduction Day *
National Ravioli Day
World Sparrow Day *
World Storytelling Day *
UN French Language Day *
World Day of Theatre for Children *
UN International Day of Happiness *
National Native HIV/AIDS Awareness Day
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MORE! Maud Menten, Amanda Clement and ‘Sister’ Tharpe, click
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Randy Rainbow on the Coronavirus Crisis
Word Cloud: ACTIVIST
(reposted in honor of Women’s History Month)
by NONA BLYTH CLOUD
Ask two hundred people on the main streets across America to name American women poets — if they came up with anyone, almost certainly it would be Emily Dickinson, and most would stop there, though a few might know Maya Angelou’s name. Emily Dickinson is certainly one of the Great Names in English-language poetry from any country, but so many other wonderful women poets languish little known or long forgotten.
Women in all branches of the Arts are still playing catch-up with their male counterparts, since opportunities for women outside the narrow world of “Kinder, Küche, und Kirche” (kids, kitchen, and kirk, which is another word for church) were so very rare before the mid-19th century.
Marge Piercy (1936 — ) was born in Detroit, Michigan, on March 31st. Her working-class parents were Jewish, and they lived in a…
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