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The civil rights movement has resonated deeply with generations of musicians. .
This link connects you to 10 YouTube clips of important songs that were inspirational in the shaping of the Civil Rights movement. This is a poignant way to celebrate Martin Luther King Jr. Day this coming Monday, but it is also a great archive for potential teaching resources...lessons that use music can have a profound impact. Via Seth Dixon 
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A head of English gets to the heart of the curriculum debate and shares his X Factor-based teaching resource on using solo taxonomy...
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Singapore's unbelievably low birthrates have inspired National Night, a campaign to encourage Singaporean couples to let their patriotism explode on August 9.
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We expect the workers in ethnic restaurants that are the most 'authentic' to have workers that are mainly of that ethnic group. This makes it feel as though the recipes are more deeply rooted in tradition. But there's a dirty little secret--in many Italian restaurants in NYC where the waiters are all Italian, the cooks are all from El Salvador. And yet, that was the best Chicken Caccatori I ever had. What are restaurant trying to do to 'sell' culture? What cultural expectations do we have? Why? How does this change the experience? How does this change the business? Via Seth Dixon
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One chart illustrates how depressing and persistent the pay gap is.
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A warm and fuzzy vision of America leads to raised eyebrows in Canada...
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How Facebook connections mirror old empires EIGHT years ago Facebook launched as an online social network connecting a small college community from a dorm room at Harvard University.
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An Interactive Graphic Showing The Evolution of Western Dance Music Over The Last 100 Years in Under 20 seconds...
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TED Talks Alisa Miller, head of Public Radio International, talks about why -- though we want to know more about the world than ever -- the US media is actually showing less. Eye-opening stats and graphs.
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We’ve come a long way as a society in terms of gender equality. Men are teachers, women are doctors, and no one flinches. As I like to tell my daughters, they can grow up to be anything they want to be — except fathers.
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Inequality hasn't widened if you look at consumption rather than income, some researchers argue. They maintain that the poor have seen their standard of living rise in recent decades.
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Hijab: A Different Definition of Freedom http://t.co/WzAFA5Fv...
The meaning you ascribe to a cultural artifact is inherently based on your cultural perceptions and values. While many in the West perceive the hijab to be a symbol of male hegemonic power and female oppression. In this article that defends the Hijab, it is presented as a distinct form of female liberation. Via Mr. David Burton, Seth Dixon
Khanh Fleshman's curator insight,
December 5, 2013 3:21 PM
This is on my page because it offers a different perspective to how clothing affects gender equality. It shows how the women in these societies don't see their restrictive clothing requirements as holding them back, but rather as empowering them. They instead feel that people can appreciate them for their brains and personality rather than body. People that could benefit from reading this article are any Westerners that feel sorry for these women because of the way ther are required to dress. It gives the perspective of the women in these societies. This relates to Half the Sky because the book also has a section about how the women in these societies actually feel sorry for the women in our societies that have to change their bodies and clothing to please men, and how they are angry when people feel bad for them.
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In our weekly Mishmash, we highlight the three strangest stories we could find in the global press...
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For centuries British public schools kept the sexes apart—until the 1970s, when a handful of boys’ schools began to admit girls at 16.
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New York has long been a city of immigrants, but linguists now consider it a laboratory for studying and preserving languages in rapid decline elsewhere in the world.
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TED Talks Biologist Mark Pagel shares an intriguing theory about why humans evolved our complex system of language.
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Music tells our stories and shows a lot about the time in which it was made. This would be amazing to incorporate into the classroom. Teachers could break students up into groups and have them work on individual songs and pull historical inferences from them. Then you could bring the class back together to discuss. There a lot of great visuals included in these videos.