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Teachers disciplined for Facebook postings, Charlotte Observer (Nov. 12, 2008)

Some stories about people who got fired, suspended, or reprimanded in Charlotte for posting ill-advised material (including complaining about their students) on Facebook.

Tags: facebook, school, education, bad_news, bizarre about 13 hours ago and saved by4 people -All Annotations (0) -About

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Craig Co. replaces its Bible education course - Roanoke.com

Apparently pressure (not litigation) from the ACLU induced a North Carolina school board to drop a Bible literacy curriculum produced by the National Council on Bible Curriculum in Public Schools and replace it with one from the Bible Literacy Project. The idea is to use a curriculum that is more inclusive and pluralistic.

Tags: religion, bible, schools, education, k-12, insider_outsider_problem on 2008-10-25 -All Annotations (0) -About

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Stephen Prothero, "Worshiping in Ignorance," The Chronicle of Higher Education (March 16, 2007)

Prothero on religious literacy. Bookmarking to read later. From the Chronicle Review.

Tags: !toread, religion, prothero, education, iterasi on 2008-10-17 -All Annotations (0) -About

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Washington Post, "On Faith" series: Stephen R. Prothero (Boston University) debates Barry Lynn (Americans United for Separation of Church and State)

Prothero kicks Lynn's ass, if you ask me. Lynn comes across looking desperate. However, if you check my Diigo annotations, you'll see that in the antepenultimate and penultimate points (Prothero, then Lynn), I think an important issue comes up, namely, how to deal with the inherent contestedness of any tradition. Whose version of Christianity, or whatever, do you teach? This doesn't seem like a problem that ought to stymie Prothero's proposal, but it is extraordinarily thorny, much more difficult to deal with than it might seem at first.

Tags: religion, debate, interview, pluralism, education, prothero on 2008-10-13 -All Annotations (5) -About

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Andrew Delbanco, "A Higher Education: Can the Humanities Survive? (Review of Kronman, Education's End)," from Commonweal 135/16 (Sept. 28, 2008)

Clipping mainly because he favorably mentions my institution, Ursinus. Links: CiteBite http://snipr.com/47j35 , original article http://snipr.com/47j2t

Tags: humanities, education, academe, review, ursinus on 2008-10-09 and saved by3 people -All Annotations (16) -About

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John Taylor Gatto - Challenging the Myths of Modern Schooling

An antischool activist. Lots of stuff for sale.

Tags: education, activism, school, children on 2008-10-05 and saved by2 people -All Annotations (0) -About

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The Carnegie Commons - Community Event: Discussion by the authors of Opening Up Education: The Collective Advancement of Education through Open Technology, Open Content, and Open Knowledge

An online discussion scheduled for 11 am, Oct. 2, 2008. The book: Toru Iiyoshi and Vijay Kumar, Opening Up Education: The Collective Advancement of Education through Open Technology, Open Content, and Open Knowledge, with an intro. by John Seely Brown (Cambridge: MIT Press, 2008).

Tags: education, event, web, open_source, pedagogy, organization, check_this_out, technology on 2008-09-30 and saved by3 people -All Annotations (0) -About

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Siva Vaidhyanathan, "Generational Myth: Not all young people are tech-savvy," The Chronicle Review (Sept. 19, 2008)

Vaidhyanathan's point: stop talking about the "digital generation." It's bullshit. Among current students, some are comfortable with web technology, others are not, and most are anything but "savvy." For example: they have no idea how to use Google effectively, just like twenty years ago most of them had no idea how to use a library reference room effectively, and no idea how to analyze broadcast or print media critically. Why should they? Are people thinking they somehow pick up these skills by osmosis just because computers are lying around?

Tags: !toread, technology, web, internet, education, commentary on 2008-09-17 and saved by6 people -All Annotations (10) -About

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Humanists sue as exam agency blocks GCSE | Education | The Guardian

Personally, I think the humanists are way off base here, despite the fact that I'm generally sympathetic to humanist organizations. "Humanism" (the concept being, for one thing, a contemporary invention of its detractors) is simply not a religious tradition that you can study the same way one can study Islam or Buddhism. More importantly, it's a strategic mistake and conceptual error to try and pretend to be one. Seen on @melmcbride 's Twitter stream.

Tags: post:rels, atheism, pluralism, uk, education, news, via:twitter, post:delicious:fail20080912 on 2008-09-13 -All Annotations (0) -About

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Scott Jaschik, "New Form of Adjunct Abuse," Inside Higher Ed (Sept. 11, 2008) - San Antonio adjuncts forced to "waive" compensation for full courseload

From the page: "Adjuncts are being encouraged to take on extra courses, as the institution can’t afford to hire as many full timers as it would like. But San Antonio also has rules — providing benefits and higher base pay — to those who teach 12 credits or more. What to do? The college is asking some part timers to take on the extra courses that bring their total to 12 or beyond, but then to agree in writing to pretend that they aren’t teaching 12 credits."

Tags: education, academe, news, disturbing, post:delicious:fail20080912 on 2008-09-11 -All Annotations (4) -About

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Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly . Using the News to Teach Religion | PBS

Link from the Pluralism Project. Videos and educators' packets on how to use the news media as a "textbook" in a religious studies course.

Tags: academe, check_this_out, del.icio.us_import, print_and_read, religion, teaching, education, controversy, !toread on 2008-08-31 and saved by3 people -All Annotations (0) -About

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