Presents examples and non-examples of institutional/structural discrimination. View related curated articles on Flipboard / Institutional Discrimination at http://flip.it/sKV3WD
The West Wing - Cartographers for Social Equality Season 2, ep. 16
Dennis Swender's insight:
More than equality and even equity, the Peters world map projection and the utilization of viewing world maps upside down provides more reality, and hence more accuracy.
A Democratic state senator in South Carolina wants to end the practice of lawmakers choosing who votes for them. The senator introduced a bill Wednesday that would create an independent commission to draw the state’s political districts. Lawmakers in the GOP-controlled Legislature now control that process. South Carolina voters would approve or reject the boundaries of new political districts in a statewide referendum if the bill becomes law. The state redraws its political boundaries for South Carolina House, state Senate and U.S. House seats after each 10-year U.S. Census [the next Census is in 2020]."
Speaking up about line cutting may seem frivolous — but in many other cases, giving voice to concerns saves lives. Consider our study in healthcare where we found that 90% of nurses don’t speak up to a physician even when they know a patient’s safety is at risk. We’ve also studied workplace safety. We found that 93% of people say their organization is at risk of an accident waiting to happen because people are either unwilling or unable to speak up.
Pearson PLC is a British multinational publishing and education company headquartered in London. It's the largest education company and the largest book publisher in the world. It generates total revenues of $10 billion. It's a key player in the ELT world and in the last couple of months, Pearson has stepped up its promotional campaign for its Global Scale of English (GSE). Here’s what…
Just wondering about the alignment of a standardized "on-size-fits-all" paradigm with increasing linguistic and cultural diversities of bilingually enriched students.
Abubakari II (1300s), also known as Abu Bakr II or Mansa Bakari II, was a ruler of the Mali Empire, brother of Mansa Musa. In 1311, he set out west across the Atlantic Ocean, 181 years before Columbus.
If we don't act together to build the infrastructure for an open access future, somebody else will - and they are already on it.
I’ve been traveling for a couple of weeks with intermittent internet access so am behind on news, but a couple of stories seem particularly important.
First, a deal was struck in Florida to have a highly successful for-profit publisher populate a university’s institutional repository with links to intellectual property that its faculty created and gave to the publisher. Isn’t this like outsourcing the management of the henhouse to Foxes, Inc.? An Elsevier spokesperson says this will help the repository because it’s much harder for libraries to get material from their faculty than it is for Elsevier. This is a true but cruel irony.
From time to time a portion of humanity declares a new human right. Behavior thought normal for thousands of years is suddenly challenged. What does it take for the new right to prevail?
Expert educational consultant and college admissions adviser Mark Montgomery discusses the newer requirements of the Medical College Admissions Test (MCAT)
The following is an edited transcript of the Netroots Nation 2016 keynote plenary “The Digital CultureSHIFT: Moving from Scale to Power to Achieve Racia
It's that time of year when we have to set our 'goals' for the upcoming year, engaging in the stultifying prelude to the annual kabuki theatre piece that is performance evaluation. As the author puts it:
"The typical performance review system doesn't work because you're demotivating half your population, poking them in the eye with a sharp stick," she says. And, apparently, dulling sections of their brains for a while too.
Or, in other words, just count our publications and the students in our classes and our number of advisees and leave us alone to actually do our work....
The Computer Programmer looks at gerrymandering in a different way by drawing boundary lines on his map and then comparing to show you the difference. This relates to the classroom by showing how gerrymandering draws lines of states but is illegal. This still exists and is bigger in political parties.
Unit 1 - regions, GIS, Unit 4 - districts, gerrymandering (please note, saying "solved" might be a stretch as any districting will have to work on some form of bias)
A new MRI study from University College of London indicates that the secret to happiness is low expectations. Author and neuroscientist Robb Rutledge says, “Happiness depends not on how well things are going but whether things are going better or worse than expected.” This rings very true in my experience. I once expected to make it big, and when I didn’t, I eventually got over that expectation, and have been much happier ever since. Every little success these days is a surprise and delight. It makes me wonder about optimists. Are they so cheerful because they have high expectations or low ones? The joke goes that a child was so optimistic that, to test the extent of his optimism, his parents gave him a pile of horse manure. The kid's eyes open wide with delight. He dives into the pile and starts digging.......
"What Is Systemic Racism?" is an 8-part video series that shows how racism shows up in our lives across institutions and society: Wealth Gap, Employment, Housing Discrimination, Government Surveillance, Incarceration, Drug Arrests, Immigration Arrests, Infant Mortality… yes, systemic racism is really a thing. Featuring Jay Smooth, produced by Kat Lazo. Follow online with #SystemicRacismIs. Rinku Sen President of Race Forward & Publisher of Colorlines introduces the series: [youtube]SgH2aN3ehFA[/youtube]
These sweltering cities could be much cooler and cleaner if they planted more trees
Dennis Swender's insight:
Interestingly, trees in many U. S. urban areas continue to be cut back in order to allow access to power lines. More wealthy suburban areas, even those with power lines, are not subjected to the same type of tree abuse due to higher property values and the threat of resident upheavals. More interesting is the fact that once trees are cut back or removed in poorer urban areas, power lines are more susceptible to power outages due to less protection from icing and high winds. A lack of home ownership in poorer areas may allow such abuse to continue and to escalate.
Academics generally recognise that the scholarly publishing business model is flawed, the impact factor does not point to quality, and open access is a good idea. And yet, academics continue to sub…
Four decades after the Civil Rights Act, students are “whitening” their résumés to increase their chance of getting a callback. What’s more disturbing is that research shows it works.
Racism and ethnic discrimination in the United States has been a major issue since the colonial era and the slave era. Legally sanctioned racism imposed
To get content containing either thought or leadership enter:
To get content containing both thought and leadership enter:
To get content containing the expression thought leadership enter:
You can enter several keywords and you can refine them whenever you want. Our suggestion engine uses more signals but entering a few keywords here will rapidly give you great content to curate.
Your new post is loading...
Scoop.it!
