CUP relaunched their website with a new name! yay! Finally!

Obviously written by professionals:
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"Nomad Post School is looking for interesting people to propose classes and always welcomes anyone to take classes. We invite anyone to propose a class on any subject anywhere and anytime. Currently seeking teachers on several subjects."

April 4, 2008 – "Bernarr Dawson created Whitney Young Magnet High School from the ideals of the civil rights movement and his dream of what a school could become with the right direction."

'Just as “plastics” was the catchword in the 1967 movie “The Graduate,” the catchword for math teachers today should be “fractions,”'

The college lending scandal takes out Antioch.

Compendium of progressive ideas on planning & planning ed. good book list

great (caveats: Oberlin is 6 years out of date (no lewis ctr) [at least it's there]. IIT is 180° from vertical. Each image cropped to 3x3km square, which is too small.]

"CUP makes educational projects about places and how they change."

Abstract line drawings, generated by the NYC Dept of Ed.

Ed Dept to allow multiple box-check; will lump '2 or more' together.(32 possible categories under the rules) “It provides them with visibility of students’ mixed heritage, but it renders their specific heritage invisible" {Census 2000: 2.5% chose 2+

"Most young adults between the ages of 18 and 24 demonstrate a limited understanding of the world" Only 37% can find Iraq, but hey: 50% can find NYS (on unlabelled maps)

For hundreds of different types of jobs the Occupational Outlook Handbook tells you (a) the training and education needed, (2) earnings, (iii) expected job prospects, what workers do on the job & working conditions. [entertainment from the BLS]

Whistler's Mother has "become so well known, such a part of the culture. What if there's a cartoon in The New Yorker that uses it as a reference? Younger students aren't going to know what it's talking about."

"Tolerance.org is a principal online destination for people interested in dismantling bigotry" (project of Southern Poverty Law Center)

program teaches by associating spoken & written words with pictures. good for vocab, bad for traditional basics ('how are you?') & idiosyncracies. How do you say "your cartoons offend me" in danish?