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48 Pages 6 - 9 years ABOUT MALALA: ACTIVIST FOR GIRLS» EDUCATION Malala Yousafzai stood up to the Taliban and fought for the right for all girls to receive an eEDUCATION Malala Yousafzai stood up to the Taliban and fought for the right for all girls to receive an educationeducation.

The League of Conservation Voters Education Fund (LCVEF) works with our state LCVEF partners, educates the public, media and elected officials about key environmental issues, works to increase voter participation in the democratic process and mobilizes a diverse network of activists to advocate for sound environmental policies.

Green Party of New York Gubernatorial candidate Howie Hawkins talks about key campaign issue and introduces Lee, a public school teacher and union activist, who discusses the importance of Education to the campaign.

Mulgrew said his schedule has been filled with meetings with elected officials, labor groups and education activists about how to handle the dangers ahead.

His guests will include two Michigan residents who will talk about the damage to their state's public schools caused by the DeVos privatization agenda — Detroit parent activist Wytrice Harris and outgoing president of the Michigan State Board of Education John Austin.»

As an educator and activist, Brian has become a leading voice in discussions about public education.

Scott: Well, we talked about this a lot and we've been working with the scientific societies and education societies that we work with, but we also work with the celebrities community and so we have a kind of a broader range of folks that we interact with than most science co-organizations because, you know, National Center for Science Education is this very odd hybrid of an activist organization, but still a scholarly organization at the sameeducation societies that we work with, but we also work with the celebrities community and so we have a kind of a broader range of folks that we interact with than most science co-organizations because, you know, National Center for Science Education is this very odd hybrid of an activist organization, but still a scholarly organization at the sameEducation is this very odd hybrid of an activist organization, but still a scholarly organization at the same time so.

Youth in Front: Urgent Advice about Youth Activism for Students and Teachers (Education Week) Coverage of a new collaboration between HGSE and MIT to create and curate learning - oriented resources for youth activists.

Mission's Kimberly Campisano, one of the teacher - advisers involved in the project, says, «Working with the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art has given me the opportunity to share what I know firsthand about the urban teaching experience, and the importance of art in activist education.»

Rural education scholars and activists from all corners of the globe converged June 19 - 23 on this historic foothills town near the Virginia - Tennessee border to share information about the struggles of rural schools and people worldwide.

When thinking about what she will change in the field of education, Heather Elgin draws upon the words of activist and civil rights lawyer Monica Ramirez — a recent guest in her Ethnic Studies course — «Sometimes there aren't doors.

«Instead of stimulating worthy discussions about over-testing, cultural bias in tests, and the misuse of test data,» responded the anti-reform Network for Public Education in the Washington Post, «these activists would rather claim a false mantle of civil rights activism.»

Organizers estimated that about 500 researchers, parent and teacher activists, district officials, union leaders and education writers attended the conference.

About 100 education activists and teachers» union representatives called on Bill de Blasio to keep his promise of creating 100 community schools by the end of his second term in a rally on Wednesday evening, a request the de Blasio administration was apparently happy to be reminded of.

Few people, even few political activists, know much about the workings of education policy.

Karen Braun, a parent activist who blogs about school issues and is involved with «Stop Common Core in Michigan,» said that Austin's comments about parental ability to make choices on education for their children are at odds with the Michigan revised school code.

«The message about the importance of education was heavily touted on both sides, with both parties advocating an activist role at the federal level.»

Civil rights activist and education reform advocate Dr. Howard Fuller talks about why he supports Ms. DeVos.

The two collaborated on a few «open letters» about education issues which received a great deal of media attention and were co-signed by a growing group of activist parents.

I recently had an epiphany while listening to Melissa Katz, a wonderful student activist from New Jersey, talk about corporate education reform on the radio.

Other items had nothing at all to do with education but, being champions of «social justice,» the activists came up with an NBI which proposes to inform the public about the dangers of fracking, another that calls for the end of «food deserts» (don't ask) and one that wants President Obama to investigate the continued incarceration of Leonard Peltier, a man who was convicted of first - degree murder in the slaying of two FBI agents in 1977.

CHARTS AND GRAPHS ARE NOT ENOUGH: Activist Deray McKesson generated 1,700 retweets and likes with his comment that «It's exhausting to see so many reporters write about education with no proximity to actual school systems, or classrooms.

But Janet Downs, an activist with the Local Schools Network, accused the Department for Education of trying to avoid bad publicity about academies by pushing the release back until after the release of its white paper on March 17.

The 71 - year - old has lost about 29 pounds, bringing the 5 - foot - 9 inch education activist to a mere 132 pounds — all for the sake of America's schoolchildren.

Science educator and activist Anthony Cody had a five - part exchange with the Gates Foundation about education reform on his Education Week blog, Living ineducation reform on his Education Week blog, Living inEducation Week blog, Living in Dialogue

Corporate education reform foe Diane Ravitch will visit Madison next month and activists are using the occasion to inform local citizens about the movement to privatize schools.

Black and Hispanic religious leaders and civil rights activists, including Martin Luther King III, implored the Florida Education Association to drop its lawsuit challenging the voucher - like program that serves about 75,000 students.

It means talking with parents and community activists worried about children with greater needs having access to fewer resources, local business leaders concerned about protecting the critical contributions of public schools to their local workforce and economy, and many others who have a stake in public education and our country's future.

«Chicago activists, educators, students, academics and parents are coming together June 2 to talk about how we can use Free Minds, Free People, the powerful national gathering on education justice, to support the development of a national education movement.

Chicago activist Julie Woestehoff of Parents United for Responsible Education spoke about the damaging impact of high - stakes testing on children.

A group of education activists from Tennessee, SOCM, also produced a lengthy document about the IDEA opposition.

Catharine Bellinger and Alexis Morin: Two students who founded Students for Education Reform (SFER) in 2009, with the goal of mobilizing college students around the Read more about TIME's «12 Education Activists for 2012» -LSB-...]

Likewise, for conservative politicians and activist - profiteers disproportionately bankrolled by these and other monied interests, the «reform» argument gives them a way to both talk about fixing education and to bash organized labor, all without having to mention an economic status quo that monied interests benefit from and thus do not want changed.

When executives at Pearson, the world's largest for - profit education company, held their London shareholder meeting Friday, they were greeted by activists from the American Federation of Teachers, urging them to oppose so - called «gag orders» restricting teachers from revealing information about Pearson's Common Core tests.

The leaders he alludes to, including NYC Opt Out activist and mother Johanna Garcia (featured in the video above), have spoken and written powerfully about how a test - focused education system is particularly harmful for children of color and children living in poverty and have drawn explicit connections between high - stakes testing and the school - to - prison pipeline.

Likewise, for conservative politicians and activist — profiteers disproportionately bankrolled by these and other monied interests, the «reform» argument gives them a way to both talk about fixing education and to bash organized labor, all without having to mention an economic status quo that monied interests benefit from and thus do not want changed.

In this conversation Dr. Fuller — a civil rights activist and champion for the people of New Orleans, spoke candidly about education reform in New Orleans and the need to empower the communities most impacted by reform efforts over the past 10 years.

Anti-Common Core activists have expressed similar concerns about Jeb Bush (who created the pro-Common Core Foundation for Excellence in Education), Bill and Melinda Gates, Rex Tillerson of ExxonMobil, and others who seek to reshape public education to fit their view of the workforce, but exclude from decision - making conversations the parents of the kids whose education they want to «transforEducation), Bill and Melinda Gates, Rex Tillerson of ExxonMobil, and others who seek to reshape public education to fit their view of the workforce, but exclude from decision - making conversations the parents of the kids whose education they want to «transforeducation to fit their view of the workforce, but exclude from decision - making conversations the parents of the kids whose education they want to «transforeducation they want to «transform.»

Republicans are stuck debating whether, rather than how, the federal government ought to be involved in education, while Democrats are squeezed between superintendents, school boards and teachers» unions that want money with no strings, and activists with little patience for concerns about federal overreach.

Working with grassroots activists on the ground to provide parents buses that can inform families about the quality of choice options (along with information on, for example, what a child should know by third grade) would not only improve data quality, but also bolster support for school choice and education reform overall.

If you are genuinely curious to learn more about this, most of my knowledge and education on the subject is thanks to the work of Bani Amor, «a queer travel writer, photographer and activist from Brooklyn by way of Ecuador who explores diasporic identities, the decolonization of travel culture, and the intersections of race, place and power in their work.»

She is passionate about furthering the ideals of access in education, conceiving new alternative educational models, teaching the intersectionality of struggles, and promoting open source and new media alternatives for activists and frontline communities.

Their story is connected with the striking students from Montreal, Students for a Free CUNY, New School student activists and everyone who cares about free education and debt.

LIVES Peggy Cooper Cafritz, the Washington, D.C., art collector and education activist who just published a book about her life in art, dies Feb. 18.

His is the author of more than a dozen books about the environment, most recently Oil and Honey: The Education of an Unlikely Activist.

The End of Nature (1989) The Age of Missing Information (1992) Hope, Human and Wild: True Stories of Living Lightly on the Earth (1995) Maybe One: A Personal and Environmental Argument for Single Child Families (1998) Hundred Dollar Holiday: The Case for a More Joyous Christmas (1998) Long Distance: Testing the Limits of Body and Spirit in a Year of Living Strenuously (2001) Enough: Staying Human in an Engineered Age (2003) Wandering Home: A Long Walk Across America's Most Hopeful Landscape (2005) The Comforting Whirlwind: God, Job, and the Scale of Creation (2005) Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future (2007) Fight Global Warming Now: The Handbook for Taking Action in Your Community (2007) The Bill McKibben Reader: Pieces from an Active Life (2008) American Earth: Environmental Writing Since Thoreau (edited)(2008) Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet (2010) The Global Warming Reader: A Century of Writing About Climate Change (2011) Oil and Honey: The Education of an Unlikely Activist (2013)

Are you a community member, scientist or activist interested in learning about how you can support climate change education in your community?

Juror education activists have been out several times already this year in Bellingham, Washington and elsewhere around the state to teach everyone about the power jurors have that prosecutors and judges don't want them to know about.

San Francisco Bay Area, CA About Blog Breast Cancer Action (BCAction) is a national grassroots education and activist organization working to address and end the breast cancer epidemic.