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New Webmaster

Hi all,
The Freire Project has a new webmaster! You can contact Giuliana Cucinelli (CritPed Webmaster) HERE
I've loved being the Freire Webmaster, and it was a rare privilege to help build this vital, necessary community. Long may it prosper.
As Joe would say, In Solidarity,
David
Freire Webmaster

plthom3's picture

School choice and children in poverty

The claims and advocacy surrounding the school choice movement receive disproportionate coverage while solid and peer-reviewed studies remain in the background. Some recent examples of the problems created by choice and the misinformation surrounding advocacy groups publishing "reports" that are flawed: see my poverty blog. paul thomas

Christopher Emdin's picture

HAPPY BIRTHDAY BOB MARLEY: URBAN SCIENCE EDUCATION FOR THE HIP-HOP GENERATION

 In recent posts, I have argued for the resurgence of real hip-hop.
Since today is Bob Marley's birthday, I figured I would pay tribute to one of the most powerful and courageous critical thinkers of our time. I also decided to take this opportunity to put my money where my mouth is in regards to hip-hop music.
Here is a track I did with my rap group GHOSTTOWN that pays tribute to Bob Marley and provides a sample of what real hip-hop sounds like.
This is also a taste of what's to come with my upcoming book and my groups upcoming mixtape.
ENJOY !!!!!!!

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Tolu's picture

Words as Weapons: Communication in an Age of Illiteracy

Shock-jocks understand that in times of economic uncertainty and political upheaval, human beings are vulnerable and impressionable, and can be manipulated with ease. ...
 

gwilym.eades's picture

Mess, Maps, Method

Maps make messes.  Maps can also be used to mop messes up.  Consider the apparent cleanliness of colonial mapping: missionaries and mapmakers often willfully exclude indigenous populations from cartographic depictions of 'unknown' north america, leaving pristine, clean white where the 'mess' we'd rather not see resides (Brealey, 1995; Harris, 2002; Law, 2004).
Counter-mapping is a method of upsetting such carefully constructed blank slates.  Even where local resources are included on maps, those who depend directly on those resources may not be made apparent.  When those local folks make known their presence on the land, through the use of maps, they are engaged in counter-mapping (Peluso, 1995).

plthom3's picture

Of Maxine Greene and Howard Zinn

Was struck this morning by a new piece of mine just making "print" (available in the online Journal of Educational Controversy) concurrent with the passing of Howard Zinn. In the middle of the piece about teacher education and Greene, I turn to the work of Zinn: "Of Rocks and Hard Places—The Challenge of Maxine Greene’s Mystification in Teacher Education"

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Tolu's picture

Society To Kids: You're On Your Own

Last week, the Chicago Tribune featured a front page report on the marketing of sugar-saturated, nutrient-deficient cereals to kids. It revealed how in spite of a commitment by leading cereal companies in 2006 to market more healthy options to children under 12, most had made very little progress since: still "aggressively" promoting unhealthy products and, what's worse, under fraudulent promises like a "nutritious way to start the day."
 

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Howard Zinn: A Public Intellectual Who Mattered

Read my article on the work of Howard Zinn at truthout.org:
http://www.truthout.org/howard-zinn-a-public-intellectual-who-mattered56463

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Long-haired boy subjected to harassment at school -- by his TEACHERS ?!

I just read another news story about a young boy who was harassed at school because he had long hair. Unfortunately, in this case it is allegedly his teachers who were responsible for the harassment. According to the news story at Cincinnati.com the teachers would attempt to humiliate him by putting his hair in ponytails, parading him in front of other classes with this hairstyle, and calling him by "feminized versions of his name."

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