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AP Students at High School School Get Lessons in Effective Racist Techniques
My Asian American daughter was the victim of racial slurs from her basketball teammates (not unlike those suffered by Jeremy Lin, who unselfishly had a 30 minute video chat with my daughter after his mom told him she had read my daughter’s story and asked him to talk with her).
She is thriving in every way (academically, socially and athletically) at her new school (which finished No. 5 in the final AP girls high school poll) and despite being removed from the varsity team and placed on the JV team where she was a little used reserved, harassed by coaches and teammates alike. The pretext for the move by the coach was my daughter’s “failure to give effort” though it coincided exactly with my last complaint of racial harassment and my daughter was the only player on the team who played both AAU and travel basketball year round. [It should be…
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“Break” Bullying
Interesting video that quite graphically demonstrates to adults how bullying operates among youth, using youth bullying conversations in an adult environment.
Very effective
Lost For Words — Jeremy Lin
A very touching video in which Jeremy spends hours of his own time to help a bullied Asian American student overcome his fears of even speaking in his school.
I personally know this video is not simply some public relations attempt to portray Jeremy Lin as a super Christian willing to help bullied minorities.
Once Jeremy Lin learned from his mother of the unmitigated mistreatment and bullying of my Asian American daughter by her fellow students and basketball teammates (who continuously hurled racial slurs at her without intervention by responsible adults) as reported in the national media, he arranged a 30 minute video chat with my daughter. His encouragement and words of wisdom greatly helped my daughter adjust to the new school where she transferred, as she began to excel academically and socially and renewed her love of basketball-and worked constantly to improve her game, eventually receiving an invitation to join a Nike EYBL basketball travel team on which she starts. During her freshman school year, she received letters from coaches at high D-1 universities.
My daughter described him as a “regular guy” and incredibly humble (which shocked her since she had held him on such a high pedestal) who offered her techniques to deal with the racial slurs and use them as incentive to improve her basketball game. He told her he has had to deal with racial hatred his whole life and refused to let racial slurs or other stereotypes define who he is as a person.
Edward Snowden: Whistleblower or Traitor?
Below is my column that ran this week in Al Jazerra on the one-year anniversary of the Snowden scandal. It is hard to believe that it has only been one year given the number of investigations, promised reforms, and articles. I previously wrote a piece explaining why a pardon or commutation would not be inconsistent with prior cases, but that still seems unlikely. While I disagree with Snowden’s release of classified information that could harm the country, I do believe that his case is more nuanced than his critics has suggested. What is fascinating is that, after a year, we appear no closer to a consensus on what Snowden represents.
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Public Schools for Sale?: Diane Ravitch Talks with Bill Moyers about the Privatization of Public Education
Diane Ravitch
Education Historian
Submitted by Elaine Magliaro, Weekend Contributor
Diane Ravitch is Research Professor of Education at New York University, a historian of education, and author of more than ten books—including The Language Police: How Pressure Groups Restrict What Students Learn (2003) and The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education (2010). Ravitch served as Assistant Secretary of Education from 1991 to 1993 during the administration of George H. W. Bush. When she was Assistant Secretary, she led the federal effort to promote the creation of voluntary state and national academic standards. “From 1997 to 2004, she was a member of the National Assessment Governing Board, which oversees the National Assessment of Educational Progress, the federal testing program. She was appointed by the Clinton administration’s Secretary of Education Richard Riley in 1997 and reappointed by him in 2001. From 1995…
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