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YouTube - Challenging Media's Channel - 0 views

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    The Media Education Foundation (MEF) produces and distributes video documentaries to encourage critical thinking and debate about the relationship between media ownership, commercial media content, and the democratic demand for free flows of information, diverse representations of ideas and people, and informed citizen participation.
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Pupil with Asperger's syndrome rejected by school | Life and style | The Guardian - 0 views

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    Alex Goodenough, 17, taught himself at home from textbooks after Hertfordshire and Essex high school and science college (H&E) rejected his application to study there.
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[arguments] Institutional Repositories Should Be Built on Open Source Software - 0 views

  • Institutional Repositories Should Be Built on Open Source Software
  • Open source [1] developers and users are unusually passionate about their work, unusual in ways that make things work well. So let me begin passionately as we talk about open source as the solution for support of institutional repositories.
  • Now that we have that behind us, let's discuss some of the myths and some of the reasons for dedicating your institutional repository to the use of open source software, open standards and open formats which, I contend, are inseparable.
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  • Institutional repositories have taken a few knocks in the six years since Cliff Lynch's “Institutional Repositories: Essential Infrastructure for Scholarship in the Digital Age” appeared in ARL 226 [4]. But I'm concerned more here about the upcoming crashes than the bumps we hit on the road to more settled standardizations. 
  • Proprietary software vendors often try to finesse the open source access promise by offering small customizable ports of entry into their code, usually as application program interfaces or APIs.
  • For a long time, it has been argued that the market, as represented by proprietary software solutions, is more responsive to the needs of users, to new requirements and to innovations. Open source is now seen as a diverse infrastructure of solutions each in competition while also free to borrow from each other.
  • The ends and the means of institutional repositories are one and the same. The infrastructure that supports open access needs to be open itself.
  • A quick glance at the most recent statistics produced by the OpenDOAR Directory of Open Access Repositories suggests that the vast majority of existing institutional repositories are currently built upon open source software.
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    Proprietary software vendors often try to finesse the open source access promise by offering small customizable ports of entry into their code, usually as application program interfaces or APIs. Like software escrow promises, this is a short-term solution to our long-term problems in curation of our valuable materials within our repositories.
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(Social) Class Matters | Class and Other Identities - 0 views

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    How do you experience class differently because of your race, ethnic group, religion, gender, age, or other identity? What class dynamics do you notice within your identity groups?
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[video] Ill Doctrine: How To Tell People They Sound Racist - 0 views

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    Race matters. Here's a little 101 about how to confront racism. Also known as "that thing you said is racist" versus "you are a racist" conversation.
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[video] Ill doctrine: An Old Person's Guide to "No Homo" (homophobia in hip hop) - 0 views

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    Brilliant video about the history of "no homo" and some reasons why homophobia isn't cool.
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Alberta passes law allowing parents to pull kids out of class - 0 views

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    Alberta legislators passed legislation early Tuesday that will give parents the option of pulling their children out of class when lessons on sex, religion or sexual orientation are being taught.
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Education Week: Study Probes Cooperative Learning and Race - 0 views

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    African-American students, in particular-often perform better in cooperative-learning groups
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Teaching tolerance: Mix It Up: Mix It Up at Lunch | Southern Poverty Law Center - 0 views

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    Mix It Up at Lunch Day - to be held on November 13, 2008 - is a simple call to action: take a new seat in the cafeteria. By making the move, students can cross the lines of division, meet new people and make new friends.
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