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In the black townships of South Africa, many public schools do not meet the students' high expectations of career or college preparation. This article describes how students have worked for justice: protesting (at times violently) and teaching themselves lessons when teachers fail to show for work.

Apartheid is alive and well in South Africa's education system.

The author relies on interviews with current teachers, students, and administrators in South Africa. She also cites data and perspectives from The Development Bank of South Africa. In her piece she examines The current situation in a single township, Then ties The issue to The entire nation.

This is pretty much what happened in my High School. The only AP "classes" that were offered were AB and BC Calculus.

So there are usually Daily Lesson Plans but apparently they are revamping the site so these are temporarily on hiatus. However you CAN access the over 2,000 lesson plans (in the "Lesson Plan Archive" below) they have on the site. I did a search for 9-12 grade economics lessons and hit paydirt. I <3 NY Times.

The site says that The "News Snapshot" is for younger kids BUT it might be a great way to gaTher background information on a picture and gives you all The information to give students contexts about current events.

Wasn't someone saying that their students demanded that this be on the board every day. Well here's a one stop shop to find information about what happened today (historically speaking of course).

The study has shown that The disruption in schools appeared to hurt student learning in The months after The closing was announced. This makes me wonder, of course, about The recent layoffs in DC. While schools have not been closed, There obviously has been a lot of disruption and many classes are most likely behind schedule.

Because of the disruption caused by the school closing, Duncan switchd to a strategy in which the staff was changed over the summer but the same students returned to the school. there are no conclusive studies about the effectiveness of this strategy. But, it does seem to show the danger of mass firings in the middle of the school year.

Curricula with information for teachers and lesson plan ideas. For example the "Peace Education" section has 5 units which each contain suggested activities for class, suggested reading, links to more resources, and projects and activities. I like that there are both background readings for teachers AND activities and lesson plans for classrooms.

The Community page has lots of projects that youth around The world have completed - art, video, writing, etc. This may be inspiring for students or may help to give faces to kids in oTher countries and places.

Sweet! Games! Definitely play any of these before you pass them on to your students, the Flag Tag game would be great for Global Studies and the Water Quiz might be an interesting introduction to a lesson on world problems. the "Against All Odds" game is SO intense, why does everyone put it up? Anyway lots of games . . .

What a conundrum this is...

From the website: "Based in Providence, R.I., What Kids Can Do (WKCD) is a national nonprofit founded in January 2001 by an educator and journalist . . . they felt an urgent need to promote perceptions of young people as valued resources, not problems, and to advocate for learning that engages students as knowledge creators and not simply test takers. Just as urgent, they believed, was the need to bring youth voices to policy debates about school, society, and world affairs. Using the Internet, print, and broadcast media, WKCD presses before the broadest audience possible a dual message: the power of what young people can accomplish when given the opportunities and supports they need and what they can contribute when we take their voices and ideas seriously. the youth who concern WKCD most are those marginalized by poverty, race, and language. On this website, WKCD presents young people's lives, learning, and work, and their partnerships with adults both in and out of school. Our community of readers stretches from youth organizers in some of this country's toughest urban areas to policy makers at the national level. We believe that a good story well told crosses geographies, generations, class and race, and position. Our publishing arm, Next Generation Press, honors the power of youth as social documenters, knowledge creators, and advisors to educators, peers, and parents. WKCD is a grant maker, too, collaborating with youth on multimedia, curricula, and research that expand current views of what constitutes challenging learning and achievement. Starting in 2006, WKCD began working with youth worldwide. WKCD has become an international leader in bringing the promise of young people to the attention of the adults whose encouragement can make all the difference."

Here they have collected various articles about how youth around the country and around the globe have been actively involved in policy making and shaping. This may be great to get teachers and students started thinking about project ideas or to inspire students (and teachers!) that students really can make a difference.

ARG! My diigo isn't working at all. Very frustrating. I have to highlight stuff four times and then add the comments in on this page. Technology is not my friend this week.

So if you do a rad civics project with your students, students can then write an article about what they did and send it in to WKCD. they will then put it up on this cite and your students will have something to be uber proud of. This is another reason to make sure you photo document rad projects.

You can search by topic and see how different hot topics relate to the Constitution

The teachers at Takoma Education Center told me about The protests and I think it really emphasizes how much of an impact The lay-offs have on The students Themselves and The level of personal investment They must feel in Their education.

I thought our classmates doing their placements at McKinley would be interested in this!

The Television News Archive was created and is maintained by Vanderbilt University in Tennessee. AU subscribes to The archive, which allows us to view many of The streaming videos online.

You can search for a specific news broadcast by topic or date. Often you can find specific segments during a news program or you can watch the entire news program. If you are looking for a specific date in history you can go right the the day, week, or month that the event occurred or was being covered.

In the classroom, I think this would be a great medium for independent research. Students could focus on a topic or event in recent history and report/analyze the news coverage of the topic/event. In general, the media could help students understand how Americans understood or misunderstood an event.