social issues

Social Issues is a blog maintained by the John Dewey Society's Commission on Social Issues.

Wednesday, August 31, 2011

Did a Québec Blogger Cause a Car Dealership to Burn?

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Early this morning, a KIA dealership burned down in Montreal. The fire department suspects that the fire was a result of criminal activity b...
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Monday, August 22, 2011

Call for Proposals--John Dewey Society meeting in Vancouver (April 13-17, 2012)

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Dear Members and Friends of the John Dewey Society, Founded in 1935, the John Dewey Society exists to keep alive John Dewey's commitm...
Thursday, August 11, 2011

Click N for “No”: An Educational Technology Returns from the Dead

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As a graduate student at the Stanford School of Education, I often attended lectures in a large lecture hall at CERAS, the Center for Educat...
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Friday, August 5, 2011

Civility: It’s All the Rage

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Only a few short months ago in Wisconsin, protesters engaged in what the Christian Science Monitor called, a “week of rage” through protest...
Monday, August 1, 2011

Cheers to the Save Our Schools March and National Call to Action

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Over the weekend, thousands of teachers simultaneously braved temperatures over 100 degrees and a chilling political climate that has worked...
Monday, July 25, 2011

Summer Camp

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If it's July, there will be articles about summer camp. This summer, two in the New York Times have caught my eye. "When s'mo...
Thursday, July 21, 2011

Zero Tolerance and the Failure to Educate

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The older I get and the more exposure I have to schooling and educational policy in the United States, the more I wonder if we like chil...
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Wednesday, July 20, 2011

Local deliberation on the federal role in public education

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As a scholar interested in the meanings that public still might have for education and schools, I’ve been intrigued with the potential of d...
Saturday, July 16, 2011

Join our Conversation on a Declaration of Education Rights

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I just put up a post on my journal’s blog that I thought readers of this blog might find interesting. In the post, Jim Strickland, the Regio...
Wednesday, July 13, 2011

The Value of College?

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(Cross-posted from Smart and Good ) From an article in the NY Times two weeks ago (June 26, 2011, SR3) .... If you have a college degree, y...
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