this has been a very long time coming, so glad it is finally out in the world! written with the wonderful Amanda Lewis and Maria Krysan, we critically examine Chicago's school choice marketplace as an institution that legitimizes educational inequality
https://t.co/xWOjuOVvNK
I am a US citizen & Surgeon who took care of the Boston Maraton Bombing victims in 2013. I paid for 7 years to own a small apartment in downtown #Beirut for my 3 kids to enjoy summers there. Today, #Israel reduced my dream home to rubble, with american weapons, paid by my taxes.
Faculty Forward unequivocally condemns these visa revocations and calls on the University of Chicago to stand with its international students, workers, and community members against these authoritarian tactics. Read our full statement below:
claim to legitimacy by offering parents the hope of choice, while continuing to maintain a structurally unequal school landscape. hope you find it interesting!
this has been a very long time coming, so glad it is finally out in the world! written with the wonderful Amanda Lewis and Maria Krysan, we critically examine Chicago's school choice marketplace as an institution that legitimizes educational inequality
https://t.co/xWOjuOVvNK
moreover, parents largely do not feel empowered by choice – even those who win lotteries to highly regarded schools. overall, we argue that the gap between the choice policy as stated versus as it's practiced is not a simply a policy inefficiency. rather, it helps the district's
Join IRRPP and the Chicago Teachers Union on February 19th from 4:30 to 6:00pm for a conversation with education activists and scholars Bettina Love and David Stovall. https://t.co/fliTUrZNfl
The Ministry of Health in Gaza has just published a 649-page document with the the name, age, gender, ID number of every Palestinian killed in Gaza from October 7 to August 31 that it has info for (over 34k out of 40k). The 1st 14 pages the age is listed as 0 (under 1 year old)
Reading the health experts, I am starting to think with horror that if it's not stopped, Israel's assault could end up exterminating almost the entire population in Gaza over the next couple of years.
The range of presumable direct and indirect deaths could be between 15 and 20% of the population already by the end of this year, according to Prof. @devisridhar (and that's in line with the work of other academics).
Once the dust settles, I can't imagine how the world will go on after having allowed that.
Again.
https://t.co/zKzKZZGLko
Israel can pinpoint assassinate senior leaders of Hamas & Hizbollah in hostile foreign capitals, with little ‘collateral damage’, but to try (and fail) to kill Hamas leaders in the tiny, occupied Gaza Strip, they apparently first have to kill 14,000 Palestinian kids. Ridiculous.
Netanyahu is a war criminal committing genocide against the Palestinian people. It is utterly disgraceful that leaders from both parties have invited him to address Congress. He should be arrested and sent to the International Criminal Court.