Here is a timeline from TechCrunch on the Apple vs. FBI: http://techcrunch.com/timeline/a-timeline-of-apples-iphone-unlocking-fight-with-the-fbi/
Gardening to Victory
As part of our document spotlight series, today we bring you victory garden propaganda posters.
To keep a war going you need to keep the soldiers fighting fit, and for that, you need food. Agriculture Secretary Claude Wickard understood this when he told the press in 1943 that “Food will win the war and write the peace.”
Uncle Sam Says, Garden to Cut Food Costs, 1917. From the Publications of the U.S. Government.
National Archives Identifier: 5711623
During both World War I and II, food supplies on the home front and abroad were tight. To alleviate the rationing problem, the Office of Civil Defense and other government agencies released multiple propaganda pieces hoping to inspire non-farming Americans to do their part and produce their own vegetables, herbs, and fruit. These posters were displayed across the nation, and like these examples, showed hard work and patriotism; Uncle Sam, America, and whole families…
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Professional Development from NEH
This information comes from a post by Edi Campbell: https://campbele.wordpress.com/2016/02/17/professional-development-enslavement/
Reorganizing the Executive Branch: Distance Learning with the Hoover Library
Registration is open for two free interactive distance learning programs from The Herbert Hoover Presidential Library on Digital Learning Day, February 17th — “Reorganizing the Executive Branch: Hoover and the Federal Government.” Times are 11-11:50 a.m. ET/10-10:50a.m. CT and 2-2:50 p.m. ET/1-1:50 p.m. CT. You may also watch the live stream, for which no registration is necessary.
The President of the United States is responsible for implementing and enforcing the laws written by Congress and, to that end, appoints the heads of the federal agencies, including the Cabinet. The Cabinet and independent federal agencies are responsible for the day-to-day enforcement and administration of federal laws.
Herbert Hoover was a champion of government efficiency for over 40 years, before, during, and after his Presidency. He was an engineer and geologist by training, and sought to apply the scientific principles of the Efficiency Movement to make the Federal government more responsive and cost effective, and…
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Rep. Sherry Gay-Dagnono: “Are Detroit Children Less Deserving of a Good Education?”
Rep. Sherry Gay-Dagnono was previously a science teacher in Detroit Public Schools. She is now a member of the Michigan legislature. Here she addresses the “savage inequalities” that Detroit’s children and teachers suffer daily.
Watch her powerful testimony at a state senate committee meeting about the destruction of public education in that city. She points out that Detroit has had four consecutive emergency managers, who have caused the district’s budget to ballon and solved no problems. Detroit is celebrating a renaissance of business and cultural life, yet Governor Snyder–who controls the Detroit public schools–continues to use their students as guinea pigs in his free-market laboratory instead of doing what works: small classes, experienced teachers, a rich curriculum, plenty of arts, social workers, guidance counselors, psychologists, librarians, and school nurses.
The Network for Public Education was proud to endorse Rep. Gay-Dagnono as a candidate for office. Her voice in the Michigan legislature…
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Google Partners with National Park Service
According to TechCrunch, Google is partnering with National Park Service. Read more by clicking here: http://techcrunch.com/2016/02/11/park-view/?ncid=rss
Weekly Diigo Posts (weekly)
Good stuff @mstewartscience ! Look @thereadingzone and @anderslara and @WIS_books https://t.co/e1JPM54O7h
History is happening. Everywhere.
History is happening. Everywhere. #HamiltonBway #RiseUp https://t.co/PPfzD4Kdov
So much this! Kids dive right in taking “notes” before developing an understanding. #engchat https://t.co/WwDLnLB8Xm
Take note, @sean_hackney1 @JoelRGarza @thereadingzone and @Janelle, your class projects are mentioned/linked herein: https://t.co/YRaX9LTTrf
New, Reading-Heavy SAT Has Students Worried
New, Reading-Heavy SAT Has Students Worried https://t.co/BPnzbqTqeS #engchat
Posted from Diigo. The rest of…
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Diversity and Technology. . .
I’m sharing this post about diversity and technology from TechCrunch. It is an article about Black Girls Code Founder Kimberly Bryant and her views.
The NPE 50-State Report, as Told in Mother Jones
I am re-posting this article because I neglected to insert the correct link on the first go-round.
It is an excellent job of reporting by Kristina Rizga, who has been writing about education for several years and spent four years embedded in a high school in San Francisco, which became an excellent book titled “Mission High.”
The purpose of the NPE report card is to change the conversation about how to rate schools. The important point is to hold states and districts accountable for making sure schools have the resources they need to be successful with their students. If they underfund the schools, if they focus too much on high-stakes testing, if they divert precious resources to privatization via charters and vouchers, they are not valuing public education.
And that is the point: Which states value public education? Which have resisted the fads and terrible policies pushed by the federal…
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Please Help to Circulate the NPE Report to School Leaders and Legislators
The Network for Public Education spent nearly two years developing the 50-state report card on “Valuing Education.”
NPE issued a “request for proposals,” and the winning team of researchers was headed by Professor Francesca Lopez of the University of Arizona. Every statistic comes from reputable sources. Its conclusions are based on facts, not ideology or opinions.
Our public schools enroll nearly 90% of the children in the US. We cannot continue on a path of treating public schools as obsolete and unworthy of support. If policymakers neglect the public schools, they neglect the one institution that reaches the vast majority of children in the US. Our schools must embrace sound and evidence-based policies and cease the fruitless pursuit of market-based fantasies.
You can help. How? Download the report and give copies to your school board members, your local and state superintendent, and your legislators, both in the state legislature and in…
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