Present Tensed

Found on Web Between November 8th and November 14th, 2009

Here are some links that I’ve tagged recently. This set is from Novem­ber 8th through Novem­ber 14th:

• Cease­Fire — The Cam­paign to STOP the Shoot­ing — | chicago crime youth activism vio­lence gun-control
• Google Wave Blog — | google wave blog
• Mul­len­weg: 10 blogs to make you think — CNN.com — | blog tech busi­ness lists read­ing
• 237 Mil­lion­aires in Con­gress — Polit­i­cal Hot­sheet — CBS News — While about one per­cent of Amer­i­cans are mil­lion­aires, 44 per­cent of those serv­ing in Con­gress can claim as much. | eco­nom­ics pol­i­tics usa
• Zinn and Zirin urge activism — The Chicago Maroon — Zinn urged the audi­ence to remain skep­ti­cal toward the gov­ern­ment, espe­cially when con­sid­er­ing the death penalty. “I don’t trust the states, the gov­ern­ment, the judi­cial sys­tem,” Zinn said. “These peo­ple are not fit to make [cap­i­tal pun­ish­ment] judg­ments. | death-penalty event uchicago howard_zinn dave.zirin
• BBC NEWS | Africa | Are South African police trig­ger happy? — The out­rage over the shoot­ing this week of a South African tod­dler has led some to ques­tion the government’s new strat­egy to fight crime. | southafrica law law.enforcement crime pol­icy
• RGE — Is the “Chicago School” to Blame in the Eco­nomic Cri­sis? — | uchicago eco­nom­ics
• West­ern Cape Anti-Eviction Cam­paign — Lib­er­ate the mind! Power to the Poor Peo­ple! “The most pow­er­ful weapon in the hands of the oppres­sor is the mind of the oppressed.” – Bantu Steve Biko | southafrica land.reform pol­i­tics activism social_justice
• Ten gad­gets to make Google Wave more pro­duc­tive — and fun! — | google wave
• Project Lead the Way Embarks on 5-Year STEM Assess­ment Pro­gram — THE Jour­nal — SR: Bill Gerstein’s school in Austin is (was?) affil­i­ated with Project Lead the Way | chicago cps engi­neer­ing sci­ence STEM non­profit
• Intel® Edu­ca­tion: Tech­nol­ogy Lit­er­acy — | tech_curriculum_map tech_scope_and_sequence intel lit­er­acy
• Alvarez v. Medill | The Blog | Chicago Reader — | law jour­nal­ism chicago illi­nois north­west­ern
• The Job­less Rate for Peo­ple Like You — Inter­ac­tive Graphic — NYTimes.com — | edu­ca­tion eco­nom­ics stats
• CNN Finally Dis­cov­ers the Red State Health Care Dis­as­ter | Crooks and Liars — The state’s chil­dren are in really bad shape, too. The Cen­sus Bureau says, about 1.3 mil­lion chil­dren in Texas are with­out health insur­ance which is more, actu­ally, than 18 per­cent. So if you look at those num­bers, 18 per­cent in Texas com­pared to the U.S., 10.3 per­cent of chil­dren in the U.S. with­out health insur­ance… | texas health­care pol­i­tics
• High Court Weighs Life Terms For Minors : NPR — Is it uncon­sti­tu­tion­ally cruel and unusual pun­ish­ment to send a juve­nile away to prison for life, with­out the pos­si­bil­ity of parole for a crime that does not involve a death? | law youth sco­tus prison
• Top News — States lag on school inno­va­tion — In the tech­nol­ogy cat­e­gory, only six states–Louisiana, Mary­land, Okla­homa, South Dakota, Vir­ginia, and West Virginia–earned a score of “A,” while 18 states received a “D” and one state, Nevada, received an “F.” | edu­ca­tion education_reform tech­nol­ogy data stats states inno­va­tion
• Mar­cel Pacatte: Judge Should Laugh Sub­poena Request out of Court­room — As many, includ­ing Prot­ess, have pointed out, you would think Alvarez would be fight­ing the case on its mer­its — point­ing out the solid­ity of the state’s case that sent McK­in­ney to prison to begin with — rather than launch­ing an ad hominem attack on the meth­ods of the stu­dent jour­nal­ists who say they have evi­dence that will set McK­in­ney free. | jour­nal­ism law illi­nois north­west­ern death-penalty
• Tech­nol­ogy and edu­ca­tion: Grade­book rant #1 and #2 — | cps cpstechinthe­news grade­book
• Space Visu­al­iza­tion Lab — Adler Plan­e­tar­ium, Chicago, IL — SR: Folks from UCHCAGO’s AAC are involved with this project, and can serve as guides for school groups.… | museum astron­omy adler chicago space
• Thin­klinkr — | web2.0 col­lab­o­ra­tion out­liner
• Larry Cuban on School Reform and Class­room Prac­tice — | edu­ca­tion education_reform blog
• Pro­caster, Free Live Stream­ing Video Soft­ware, Screen­cast, Broad­cast Desk­top — | soft­ware video online free­ware stream­ing
• Yoda Elvis — 43284127_e7c73051cb.jpg (JPEG Image, 311x400 pix­els) — | star­wars elvis art system:filetype:jpg system:media:image
• New hope after deseg decree — Opin­ions — Under its para­me­ters, mag­net and selec­tive schools had to have a racial make up of 65–85 per­cent minor­ity and 15–35 per­cent non-minority. Cur­rently, only eight per­cent of the stu­dent pop­u­la­tion is white, sys­tem­at­i­cally over rep­re­sent­ing white inter­ests in selec­tive schools. | chicago edu­ca­tion public_schools cps law admis­sions deses­gre­ga­tion
• The Stew: CPS refuses to call a dough­nut a dough­nut — But she did talk a lot about why these sweet, cakey, fried dough smelling, pas­tries with a hole in the mid­dle should not be called dough­nuts: because they are for­ti­fied with vit­a­mins and min­er­als and have recently had their sugar and fat trimmed. | chicago edu­ca­tion public_schools cps news food health
• The poi­so­nous fla­vors of CPS — chicagotribune.com — Par­ents, edu­ca­tors, and pol­icy mak­ers need to under­stand just how dan­ger­ous too much sugar can be and the dam­age that it has already done. | chicago edu­ca­tion public_schools cps news health food
• BBC NEWS | Africa | SA ‘to miss land reform dead­line’ — South Africa will miss a 2014 dead­line to redis­trib­ute a third of the country’s farm­land from white farm­ers to the black major­ity, offi­cials say. | pol­i­tics africa poverty land.reform southafrica
• Cus­tomize Medi­aWiki into Your Ulti­mate Col­lab­o­ra­tive Web Site — Wikipedia — Life­hacker — | medi­awiki tech web2.0 howto soft­ware wiki life­hacker
• New Direc­tions in the Eco­nomic Analy­sis of Edu­ca­tion (The Mil­ton Fried­man Insti­tute for Research in Eco­nom­ics) — | edu­ca­tion eco­nom­ics event uchicago
• An illus­trated guide to Boot Camp and Win­dows 7 — | win­dows windows7 os apple boot­camp guides howto

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