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global garment retailers
who want the incur the lowest cost--and offer the lowest price--to compete in developed markets but who do not want to be complicit in publicized worker
tragedies in developing markets
whether
Bangladesh has the means to enforce such laws
International Labor Organization
Inadequate government is a huge obstacle to change
only about one percent of Bangladesh garment factories have good standards.
garment factory owners are willing to allow workers to organize in unions or associations in order to have a
voice in health and safety conditions
"who pays" and "who is accountable"
Approximately 60 percent of the clothing made there goes to United States or the European Union
there are several problems
standards may depend on local law
buyers may simply cut off the suppliers rather than helping them improve their practices
global buyers simply leave the country when they conclude that conditions are so bad
question then becomes whether international buyers are willing to go beyond imposition of standards and supplier cut offs and to pay, in some form, for
the undetermined costs
actually implementing major substantive change
significant challenge in a weak state like Bangladesh.
Can a robust consumer movement arise among those shopping for discount clothing in response to the
Bangladesh building collapse?
What are the standards? What is the cost? Who is accountable?
drawn an analogy between the collapse of the Rana Plaza in the Bangladesh Capital of Dhaka and the 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist factory
fire in New York which claimed 146 lives
Rana Plaza catastrophe represents a more complicated set of fractured global relationships, responsibilities and financial capabilities.
Favourites such as: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory; Danny Champion of the World; The Twits; The Witches and ;Revolting Rhymes, were joined with the less well-known tales by Dahl including "The Vicar of Nibbleswicke" and "Going Solo".
Great post by Steve Hargadon, explaining why educational technologists may lead the way to effective alternatives - decentralization, differentiation, transformation in schooling.
"Technology is always disruptive: Think of the introduction of the printing press, or the combine harvester, or the typewriter. Think of the mechanical looms and the factory system of the industrial revolution that destroyed a way of life for cottage industry weavers. Some of them took to frame breaking and gave us the unfairly derisive term of "luddite" for those who resist technological change"
Studies are finding that the culture or climate of a school can have a marked impact on student performance.
school's performance never will improve until the school culture is
one where people feel valued, safe, and share the goal of self-improvement
School culture, he says, is shared experiences both in and out of school, such as traditions and celebrations, a sense of community, of family and, team."
Positive school cultures can be developed through assessment, analysis, improving and strengthening a school's identity, and then monitoring progress
The three major indicators of a healthy school culture are collaboration (do people work together and share information), collegiality (is there a sense of belonging and emotional support), and efficacy (do stakeholders feel as if they have control of their destinies or do they view themselves as helpless victims of "the system?")
What kind of culture pervades your school? Do staff members feel like a family? Or is it like a factory or a Little Shop of Horrors? One way to assess school culture, and then strive to improve it, is through the Center for Improving School Culture's triage survey. Included: Links to the triage survey.
"At its inception in the Victorian era, mass education in the UK focused very much on conformity, based on the prevailing 'factory production' mindset on the age. But how much has changed? With top down curricula and a rigid exam system testing the merest fraction of what is actually important, has education really left the production line behind?"
Barlow (1988, 2000, 2002) argued that panic attacks, which he called “false alarms,” arise in response to stressful life events (such as music performance) in people who experience high levels of general anxiety.
Chang-Arana, Á. M., Kenny, D. T., & Burga-León, A. A. (2018). Validation of the Kenny Music Performance Anxiety Inventory (K-MPAI): A cross-cultural confirmation of its factorial structure. Psychology of Music, 46(4), 551–567. https://doi.org/10.1177/0305735617717618
"AUTHOR: ISSIE LAPOWSKY. ISSIE LAPOWSKY DATE OF PUBLICATION: 05.04.15.
05.04.15
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INSIDE THE SCHOOL SILICON VALLEY THINKS WILL SAVE EDUCATION
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Students in the youngest class at the Fort Mason AltSchool help their teacher, Jennifer Aguilar, compile a list of what they know and what they want to know about butterflies. CHRISTIE HEMM KLOK/WIRED
SO YOU'RE A parent, thinking about sending your 7-year-old to this rogue startup of a school you heard about from your friend's neighbor's sister. It's prospective parent information day, and you make the trek to San Francisco's South of Market neighborhood. You walk up to the second floor of the school, file into a glass-walled conference room overlooking a classroom, and take a seat alongside dozens of other parents who, like you, feel that public schools-with their endless bubble-filled tests, 38-kid classrooms, and antiquated approach to learning-just aren't cutting it.
At the same time, you're thinking: this school is kind of weird.
On one side of the glass is a cheery little scene, with two teachers leading two different middle school lessons on opposite ends of the room. But on the other side is something altogether unusual: an airy and open office with vaulted ceilings, sunlight streaming onto low-slung couches, and rows of hoodie-wearing employees typing away on their computers while munching on free snacks from the kitchen. And while you can't quite be sure, you think that might be a robot on wheels roaming about.
Then there's the guy who's standing at the front of the conference room, the school's founder. Dressed in the San Francisco standard issue t-shirt and jeans, he's unlike any school administrator you've ever met. But the more he talks about how this school uses technology to enhance and individualize education, the more you start to like what he has to say.
And so, if you are truly fed up with the school stat
What is vermiculture? Can I break apart the word to figure it out? I know that vermin are pests like rats and bugs and I know that the word culture usually means a group of people practicing the same traditions and way of life