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Ruth Cuadra

Doug Aitken Transforms the Hirshhorn with SONG 1 | Around The Mall - 0 views

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    Artist and museum cooperate to create work that faces the community, doesn't require people to come in to experience art
Ruth Cuadra

REMIX Summit by CultureLabel.com with Google & Bloomberg - 0 views

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    A new global summit for culture, entrepreneurship and technology tackling the big ideas shaping the future of the cultural sector. (Would love to see what comes out of this)
Paul Spitzzeri

2030 Vision .doc - 1 views

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    Now five years old, this Smithsonian Institution report was created to establish a sense of what the SI's visitorship would be like in 2030.
Paul Spitzzeri

GAGA07-huber - 0 views

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    This 2007 paper has some interesting general thoughts about sustainability and the future of museums with reference to what museum conservators, curators and others might consider in looking ahead at museum operations.
Paul Spitzzeri

Vision 2030 Strategic Plan for Parks and Recreation in Montgomery County, Maryland - 0 views

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    Though specifically for a Maryland county parks and rec dept, this strategic plan document might be useful for museum professionals who could be involved in similar long-term projects.
Lisa Eriksen

The Streets Of Ann Arbor Will Soon Be Filled With Driverless Cars | Co.Exist | ideas + ... - 0 views

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    Those driverless cars keep on multiplying:-)
anonymous

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Elizabeth Merritt

A Texas superintendent ordered school librarians to remove LGBTQ books. Now the federal... - 0 views

  • The U.S. Education Department’s civil rights enforcement arm has launched an investigation into a North Texas school district whose superintendent was secretly recorded ordering librarians to remove LGBTQ-themed library books.
  • accused the district of violating a federal law that prohibits discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender. The ACLU complaint was based largely on an investigation published in March by NBC News, ProPublica and the Tribune that revealed that Granbury’s superintendent, Jeremy Glenn, instructed librarians to remove books dealing with sexual orientation and people who are transgender.
  • An Education Department spokesperson confirmed the investigation and said it was related to Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, which prohibits schools from discriminating on the basis of sex, gender and sexual orientation.
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  • After a volunteer review committee voted to return all but a few of the titles, two disgruntled members of the committee filed a police report in May accusing district employees of providing “pornography” to children, triggering a monthslong criminal investigation by Hood County Constable Chad Jordan, which remained open as of August.
  • The ACLU of Texas made similar legal arguments in another civil rights complaint filed last month against the Keller Independent School District in North Texas in response to a policy banning any books that mention “gender fluidity.” The Education Department has yet to decide whether to open an investigation in Keller,
  • the nonprofit PEN America, which has tracked thousands of school book bans since last year,
  • If the Education Department finds Carroll students’ rights have been violated, experts said, the federal agency could require the district to implement the same types of diversity and inclusion training programs that conservative activists have fought to block in Southlake.
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