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EDUCATION CATEGORY
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2008- UNITED NATIONS -- EDUCATION INDEX

TOP 20 COUNTRIES

AUSTRALIA, DENMARK, FINLAND & NEW ZEALAND = TIED FOR #1
CANADA
NORWAY
SOUTH KOREA
IRELAND
NETHERLANDS
GREECE
ICELAND
FRANCE
CUBA
LUXEMBOURG
BELGIUM
SWEDEN
SPAIN
SLOVENIA
LITHUANIA
UNITED STATES
KAZAKHSTAN

This past Sunday in the Columbus Dispatch, I saw a wonderful commentary by the President of my alma mater, CCAD, Dennis Griffin. It's too good not to post the whole thing:

Sure, the American economy needs to pick up steam -- but we need more than STEM.

Hello: We are pleased to inform you that we are accepting applications for the U.S. Department of State's 2010 Spring Student Internship Program.

I am cross posting this for a fellow blogger, jenyum at DailyKos, who is also a great Tacoma activist.

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Link.

Sandra Day O'Connor, Georgetown University, and Arizona State University collaborate for online, game-oriented civics curriculum for seventh, eighth, and ninth grades. 

Something like this is vital and sadly missing, as O'Connor notes below.

Excerpt:

"...now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country..."

I've typed that a million times - like many of you, probably - while practicing typing skills, under my mom's tutelage. I've always liked that it ended with "country", and not the original wording of the phrase, which is "party."  

Which Political Leader Are You Most Like?

Who would have thought that by creating "a la carte" menus and lines in school cafeterias poor students would stop eating the free school lunches - Someone needs to work on the "coolness" issue.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/01/education/01lunch.html

"On another day, a group of classmates who also qualify for federally subsidized lunches sat on a bench. One ate a slice of pizza from the line where students pay for food; the rest went without.

Most core Republican Party special interests, with a partial exception for some elements of the Religious Right, essentially believe in Social Darwinism. They heap high praise on “The Individual” because they usually are, as individuals, heaped high with special privileges. If not they are wealth groupie wannabes. Which is why Mike Huckabee meets with such disdain from the Republican establishment – he sometimes gives a nod toward right wing populism.