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Interversity Quotes"I think it's time to ask the Standardistos: Where's the test for compassion? For honesty? For curiosity? For moral commitment? Until they can answer, let's tell them to shut up." —Susan Ohanian (One Size Fits Few: The Folly of Educational Standards) Interversity ProjectsEchoes of Orwell:The purpose of this webforum is to promote a lively discussion among students and faculty alike about George Orwell's 1984 and the parallels or echoes found in today's society. |
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Begin forwarded message: From: "Monty Neill" <monty@fairtest.org> Date: Fri Jun 6, 2008 3:17:50 PM US/Pacific To: <ndsgroup@yahoogroups.com>, "arn2-strategy" <arn2-strategy@yahoogroups.com>, "ARN-L" <arn-l@interversity.org> Subject: [arn2-strategy] short video - the teacher project - Reply-To: arn2-strategy@yahoogroups.com Going to the link below gets you to a 7-min trailer. Interesting. Note the critique of testing and the treatment of educators offered at about 5:00 minutes in. Monty Upcoming film aims to revolutionize public's perception of teachers Oscar-winning documentary filmmaker Vanessa Roth and best-selling author Dave Eggers are teaming up in an attempt to do for education what "An Inconvenient Truth" did for the environment, writes Claus von Zastrow in the Learning First Alliance's Public School Insights blog. The film aims to document the challenges facing U.S. teachers on a daily basis in the hopes of engendering greater public support for the profession. Public School Insights (6/3) , Public School Insights (5/27) 6666,6666,6666The video link is http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8VNvxP36qg Monty Neill, Ed.D. Deputy Director FairTest 342 Broadway Cambridge, MA 02139 617-864-4810 x 101; fax 617-497-2224 monty@fairtest.org http://www.fairtest.org Donate: https://secure.entango.com/servlet/donate/MnrXjT8MQqk __._,_.___ Your email settings: Individual Email|Traditional Change settings via the Web (Yahoo! ID required) Change settings via email: Switch delivery to Daily Digest | Switch to Fully Featured Visit Your Group | Yahoo! Groups Terms of Use | Unsubscribe __,_._,___ Vote in the National Cheney Impeachment Poll http://www.usalone.com/blogvoices.php?Cheney%20Impeachment%3F Add this text to your own email and blog signatures!
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