During the course of this election cycle, those of us who have been demanding an arms embargo and ceasefire in Gaza have become all too familiar with one recurrent criticism in particular: that we are “one issue voters.” I find this to be a dangerous attitude for a number of reasons. ...
Tunis, on the other hand, enforced relatively equal treatment of its women. A civil rights code created in 1956 legalized the near equal status of women to men in the eyes of the local law. In Tunis, under Ben-Ali, women were banned from wearing head scarves in schools or government off...
1. The First Amendment has been held to address issues as diverse as prayer in the schools, hate speech, and school dress codes. 2. The Free Speech Clause of the First Amendment is intended to remove governmental constraints from public discussion and diversity of opinion, which are essential...
For purposes of this post the omission of same gender loving women in large part is not intentional or meant to exclude them but as there are hardly any documented records of such instances but more so on the side of MSM in my archives, men who have sex with men in the broader context...
Assessment: Should cities be allowed to shut down sites such as YikYak from being assessed if there are middle schools in the area? Why or why not? She teachers and students not be able to interact with each other via such social sites as Facebook or other sites outside of theschoolsyst...
I walked home with the two roses in hand and over the next few days watched as the transformer rose turned from yellow to pink to orange to red. Something else had turned too. When she clipped those roses, when she reached over the fence and handed them to me, when I reached my hand...
Curry, who was faced with resolving a $108,000,000 budget deficit upon entering office, told the group that because of the county's financial limitations, there were only three areas in which he had chosen to concen- trate efforts toward improving government: economic develop- ment, public ...
Changes in the learning environment, and sometimes medications, can also be of great help to struggling adolescents. The federal Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) requires that schools evaluate and provide appropriate services for students with learning disabilities and...
He used the context of the Charlottesville rally (far-right groups’ protests) with his PTs to explore issues of segregation in U.S. schools and racism in society. Drawing on research literature and his own experiences, he proposed a framework highlighting the importance of building a socio–...
As part of its expansion plans, Achievement First has applied for five K-12 charters in New York City. The proposal calls for opening three of the schools in fall 2005 and the remaining two in fall 2006. According to the proposal, the schools will open with two or three grades each, ...