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Burks Oakley

Americans Researching the Recession Also Look for Digital Diversions - Pew Research Center - 1 views

pewresearch.org/...ions-for-online-economic-users

Pew Internet Internet recession

shared by Burks Oakley on 10 Sep 09 - Cached
  • Burks Oakley on 10 Sep 09
     
    A good summary of the latest Pew Internet report - reasons that Americans are turning to the Internet during this recession.
erika webb

Educational Leadership:Educating for Diversity:Why Some Parents Don't Come to School - 0 views

www.ascd.org/...ents-Don't-Come-to-School.aspx

cultural barriers Linguistic barriers economic barriers diversity bilingual hispanics latinos

shared by erika webb on 04 Mar 11 - No Cached
  • From talking with Latino parents and parents in two low-income Anglo neighborhoods, we have gained insights about why they feel disenfranchised from school settings. In order to include such parents in the educational conversation, we need to understand the barriers to their involvement from their vantage point, as that of outsiders. When asked, these parents had many suggestions that may help educators re-envision family involvement in the schools.
  • What most people don't understand about the Hispanic community is that you come home and you take care of your husband and your family first. Then if there's time you can go out to your meetings.
  • Diverse linguistic and cultural practices. Parents who don't speak fluent English often feel inadequate in school contexts. One parent explains that “an extreme language barrier” prevented her own mother from ever going to anything at the school. Cultural mismatches can occur as often as linguistic conflicts. One Latino educator explained that asking young children to translate for their parents during conferences grates against a cultural norm. Placing children in a position of equal status with adults creates dysfunction within the family hierarchy.
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  • Whether it is for social, cultural, linguistic, or economic reasons, these parents' voices are rarely heard at school. Perhaps, as educators, we too readily categorize them as “those other parents” and fail to hear the concern that permeates such conversations. Because the experiences of these families vary greatly from our own, we operate on assumptions that interfere with our best intentions. What can be done to address the widening gap between parents who participate and those who don't?
  • erika webb on 04 Mar 11
     
    This article gives various reasons why Hispanics may not paricipate in community and school events. Reasons vary from cultural, linguisitic or economic barriers.
  • erika webb on 04 Mar 11
     
    Here is an article I found that helps explain some reasons why Hispanics do not participate in community forums, etc, at the same rate as blacks and whites.
Morgan Diffenderfer

DEA Diversion Control - Consumer Alert - 0 views

www.deadiversion.usdoj.gov/consumer_alert.htm

shared by Morgan Diffenderfer on 05 May 10 - Cached
  • DEA Warning--Buying drugs online may be illegal and dangerous!
  • Federal law prohibits buying controlled substances such as narcotic pain relievers (e.g., OxyContin®, Vicodin ®), sedatives (e.g., Valium®, Xanax®, Ambien®), stimulants (e.g., phentermine, phendimetrazine, Adderall®, Ritalin®) and anabolic steroids (e.g., Winstrol®, Equipoise®) without a valid prescription from your doctor. This means there must be a real doctor-patient relationship, which by most state laws requires a physical examination. Prescriptions written by "cyber doctors" relying on online questionnaires are not legitimate under the law. Buying controlled substances online without a valid prescription may be punishable by imprisonment under Federal law. Often drugs ordered from rogue websites come from foreign countries. It is a felony to import drugs into the United States and ship to a non-DEA registrant. Buying drugs online may not be only illegal, but dangerous. The American Medical Association and state boards of medicine and pharmacy have all condemned the practice of cyber doctors issuing online prescriptions as unacceptable medical care. Drugs delivered by rogue websites may be the wrong drugs, adulterated or expired, the wrong dosage strength, or have no dosage directions or warnings.
  • Morgan Diffenderfer on 05 May 10
     
    This site talks about the DEA and it's warnings that the federal law prohibits buying controlled drugs online. Working in the pharmacy, I know that controlled substances are very addictive and this was interesting to see that it is actually a federal law that prohibits it!
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