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J.Randolph Radney

Gender Mainstreaming in Poverty Eradication and the Millennium Development Goals - 1 views

  • Chapter 1 provides a brief history of the changing policy discourse and the processes that led to the greater visibility of both poverty reduction and gender equality
  • Chapter 2 charts the gradual evolution of macroeconomic analysis from its earlier gender-blindness to current attempts to make it more gender aware.
  • Chapter 3 sketches out an ‘institutional framework’ for the analysis of gender inequality within the economy and explores its variation across the world.
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  • Chapter 4 turns to a more detailed examination of the relationship between gender inequality and poverty at regional and national levels, drawing on findings from three different approaches to poverty analysis: the poverty line approach; the capabilities approach (using human development indicators); and participatory poverty assessments.
  • Women’s role as economic actors – and its critical importance to the livelihoods of the poor across the world – is considered in Chapter 5.
  • Chapter 6 focuses on the human development concerns of the MDGs.
  • Chapter 7 reinforces the critical importance of certain resources to women’s capacity to exercise agency, but this time focuses on forms of agency that are in the interests of women themselves – in other words, those that serve the goals of women’s empowerment and gender justice.
  • The final chapter (Chapter 8) attempts to draw out the implications of the relationship between gender equality and pro-poor growth for policy efforts to achieve the MDGs.
  • Millennium Development Goal (MDG) on poverty eradication.
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    poverty is my main topics for my essays. so i think this is interesting to me
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    "In September 2000, at the United Nations Millennium Summit, 189 governments across the world made a commitment to take collective responsibility for halving world poverty by 2015."
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    So far, one of the few countries making progress on-track to achieve this goal is (surprisingly) Bangladesh (cited in Yunus, Mohammad. _Creating a World Without Poverty_)
Emmy-Lou Sill

THE BORGIAS - Crime Library on truTV.com - 0 views

  • THE BORGIAS
  • The years of the greatest influence of the Borgias (1435 - 1520) correspond to one of the most important periods in European history. It is the age of the Renaissance, the beginning of the Age of Exploration, and the age of some of the great rulers, artists, and writers who have influenced our Modern Age.
  • The Borgia Era begins about the time of Joan of Arc (1430)
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  • It is the era of the great Medici family of Florence,
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    Borgia and Medisi Families that helped shape this modern world as it is today!
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    Here is more infomation on Borgia and Medisi Family, yet I have not found a BLOG on either Borgia and Medisi. shame, oh i may just create my own BLOG! what do you guys think? :)
Emmy-Lou Sill

Davos - World Economic Forum News - The New York Times - 0 views

  • The World Economic Forum has for decades served as a Alpine playground where politicians, chief executives, academics, writers and celebrities socialize and exchange ideas. Established in 1971 as the European Management Forum, it has become better known simply as Davos, for the Swiss skiing resort where it is held each January.
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    here is new york tiimes, i enjoy reading it. lots of infomation
J.Randolph Radney

The Walrus » Joseph Boyden » Driving Lessons » Field Notes - 2 views

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    This story comes recommended by author, Thomas King (_Medicine River_, _One Good Story, That One_)
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    Although the clarity of description of the two scenes is unsettling in the extreme, the author, Boyden, has something he wants to say: What do you think it is?
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    I am not too sure what the author wants to say but i think it might be something about one person coming into the world and the way another leaves the world. --i would really like to know you thoughts radney.
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    My thoughts as I read the story involved shock at the violence and stark reality of unwilling death and also shock at the details of the beginning of life (read: more information than I wanted). I felt uncomfortable (though not in the same way for the two parts of the story), and I became somewhat curious as to how a storyteller could influence my feelings so much.
J.Randolph Radney

Books' Digital Features Enhance Reading Experience - Digital Education - Education Week - 1 views

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    This website would be good to share with families whose children want to understand one important way to make a difference in the world.
Emmy Sill

Top ESL Teaching Jobs - UsingEnglish.com - 0 views

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    Teach english around the world
J.Randolph Radney

eLearn: Case Studies - Threading, Tagging, and Higher-Order Thinking - 0 views

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    Where does English fit in as a course in terms of lower-order and higher-order thinking?
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    In part two of the English final examination, students will be required to outline, summarize, and/or evaluate an essay. The discussion on this linked web page is the sort of essay that will be provided on the day of the exam for students to respond to. While this particular item is much longer than the essays that will be provided, students can still attempt to outline and summarize portions as practice for the final exam.
J.Randolph Radney

TeachPaperless: The Difference Between Knowing and Understanding in the Immediately Con... - 0 views

  • Knowledge of content is only half the battle.
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      What surpasses knowledge?
  • we are going to need to instill critical analytical skills into our students' educations
  • We have to teach kids to understand the critical basis of 'link decision'
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      How is 'link decision' related to understanding and to critical analysis?
J.Randolph Radney

Free Technology for Teachers: The Importance of Proper Mathematics - 0 views

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    I know only a few of you are taking math this term, but I thought it would be good for all of you to see the value of good math understanding in the real world. This is a phone conversation between a customer who has been quoted a very low charge rate and then billed at 100 times the quoted rate. See if you can figure out the logic of the billing company. Do you believe that $0.002 = 0.002cents?
J.Randolph Radney

Monitor: The net generation, unplugged | The Economist - 0 views

  • THEY are variously known as the Net Generation, Millennials, Generation Y or Digital Natives. But whatever you call this group of young people—roughly, those born between 1980 and 2000—there is a widespread consensus among educators, marketers and policymakers that digital technologies have given rise to a new generation of students, consumers, and citizens who see the world in a different way. Growing up with the internet, it is argued, has transformed their approach to education, work and politics.
  • But does it really make sense to generalise about a whole generation in this way? Not everyone thinks it does. “This is essentially a wrong-headed argument that assumes that our kids have some special path to the witchcraft of ‘digital awareness’ and that they understand something that we, teachers, don’t—and we have to catch up with them,” says Siva Vaidhyanathan, who teaches media studies at University of Virginia.
  • Any teenager can choose to join a Facebook group supporting the opposition in Iran or the liberation of Tibet, but such engagement is likely to be shallow. A recent study by the Pew Research Center, an American think-tank, found that internet users aged 18-24 were the least likely of all age groups to e-mail a public official or make an online political donation. But when it came to using the web to share political news or join political causes on social networks, they were far ahead of everyone else. Rather than genuinely being more politically engaged, they may simply wish to broadcast their activism to their peers. As with the idea that digital natives learn and work in new ways, there may be less going on here than meets the eye.
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    While it is impossible to classify an entire generation of people regarding characteristics and accurately apply features to an entire population, this article makes some interesting observations with regard to discrepancies between experience and expertise in using the Web. What could you write about such a topic? What does it mean to be a "digital native"?
J.Randolph Radney

City Brights: Howard Rheingold : Crap Detection 101 - 0 views

  • "Who is the author?" is the root question. If you don't find one, turn your skepticism meter to the top of the dial. And use easywhois.com to find out who owns the site if there is no author listed. If the author provides a way to ask questions, communicate, or add comments, turn up the credibility meter and dial back the skepticism. When you identify an author, search on the author's name in order to evaluate what others think of the author - and don't turn off your critical stance when you assess reputation. Who are these other people whose opinions you are trusting? Is the site a .gov or .edu? If so, turn up the credibility a notch. If it helps, envision actual meters and dials in your mind's eye - or a thermometer or speedometer. Take the website's design into account - professional design should not be seen as a certain indicator of accurate content, but visibly amateurish design is sometimes an indicator that the "Institute of Such-and-Such" might be an obsessive loner.
  • More good questions to use as credibility probes: Does the author provide sources for factual claims, and what happens when you search on the names of the authors of those sources? Have others linked to this page, and if so, who are they (use the search term "link: http://..." and Google shows you every link to a specified page). See if the source has been bookmarked on a social bookmarking service like Delicious or Diigo; although it shouldn't be treated as a completely trustworthy measurement, the number of people who bookmark a source can furnish clues to its credibility. All the mechanics of doing this kind of checking take only a few seconds of clicking, copying and pasting, searching, and judging for yourself. Again, the part that requires the most work is learning to do your own judging.
  • I use martinlutherking.org as an example with my students today - it's not owned by admirers of the late civil rights leader, but you wouldn't know that at first glance. Another, less sinister but equally sobering teaching story: "The parody site Gatt.org once duped the Center for International Legal Studies into believing it was the Web site of the World Trade Organization.
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  • on the cutting edge of community-based filtering tools, Intel labs' Dispute Finder Firefox Extension "highlights disputed claims on web pages you browse and shows you evidence for alternative points of view."
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    This site has some very helpful tips for research evaluation.
J.Randolph Radney

Patch's Prescription: 10 Everyday Actions | Gesundheit Institute - 1 views

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    Can you predict what your world would be like if you began to practice these suggestions regularly (every week or every day)?
J.Randolph Radney

Gesundheit! News | Gesundheit Institute - 0 views

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    Not everything serious in the world must be approached seriously (in other words, be intense in your amusements, as well as your passions).
Emmy-Lou Sill

Rise Above Confrence - 0 views

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    I have been to this confrence! it was a sad expereince hearing from individuals telling how and what happened the catholic schools they were taken too. You understand why first nations are they way they are today. There are no guildance to how to get out of that hole of their past when all they need is God to heal them and themselves to accept what happened to them many years ago. It helped change the way i see the world, being first nation myself i saw their pain and hardships. it made me care for other discriminated nations by "assimilation"
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    And i plan on going again to learn more!! to see the brave first nations coming to this, and facing their inner demons. it give me courage to see the next day. Also God is a good God, he does not take away he gives life. but our **own** choices leads to destruction. We are all given a free will to choose our path. :D thought i would let you guys know!!! His love is greater than what we can comprehend. he forgives. Seek the kingdom first then all* else is added to your life :) my fave verse is John 1 3:16
taryn doherty

BE THE CHANGE: Home - 0 views

  • “You must be the change you want to see in the world.” Mahatma Gandhi
Emmy Sill

Parika Pages - 0 views

  • We taught at Imbaimadai Primary School everyday. It's a one room school, divided into 4 sections by chalkboards, accommodating 70+ students from nursery to grade 8.
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    Emese's blog about parika and beyond, she is a friend i met down in mexico but her home is here in canada Vancouver! she is teaching a disipleship training program for the first time! me and her did a mission trip to the same place and we met! in mexico wen i was 15 years old. 
J.Randolph Radney

ePal International Find pen pals throughout the world - 0 views

shared by J.Randolph Radney on 30 Oct 09 - Cached
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    Do you think it would be easier to write electronically to one person than it is to write in a blog?
Emmy Sill

Read Free Manga Online at One Manga. Online manga scans reader. - 0 views

  • Welcome to One Manga, where manga scans are made delicious! Naruto, Bleach, One Piece, Claymore, Hana Kimi, Vampire Knight... it's all here and more!
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      Here is a site, if you are curious about manga's, what I hope to do someday!!! >_< highly recommend Naruto s THAT poplar!
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    manga! free manga! u can sample before you buy manga which is $9.50 per manga some go for up tp $100 so its wise to check it out before you buy on ebay or order though open book down on oliver! by the way you can oder books and it takes usually 3-6 days to get here! <3
Diana Boffa

How to Make Teaching Come Alive | MIT World - 1 views

shared by Diana Boffa on 05 Nov 09 - Cached
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    hey radney have you had any time to take a look at this ??
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