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• in Android
  Politics Are A High Stakes Game
  Will you know the answers to the questions that the games poses?
  by makingsense / on Nov 6, 2012
• in Politics
  How to Lose an Uncontested Election
  Corruption and Civil Rights Violations in a Seattle Suburb and the Police Officers Who Fought Back
  by xavieronassisemtp / on Oct 22, 2011

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “civics”

 

• Read how a few Philly students organized themselves to a few hundred to be heard

  
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  AxisPhilly: Isaiah Thompson: “How a few Philly high school students organized themselves into a few hundred in four days” : It began, not surprisingly perhaps, with a modest online message. About two weeks ago, school district officials had announced, once again, a serious hole in the District’s budget and ...
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• #FUNDRAISING: Outreach Tactics & Technologies Need To Adjust To Demographics

  
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  With the texts and tweets and the touchscreens and with those crazy(-cool) Google goggles and whatnot, a nonprofit would be daft to send those old-fashioned appeals by mail. The cost of printing and stamps, the hassle of upkeep of a database of address, the imposition of making potential donors find their checkbooks ...
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• What the world owes you

  
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  Nothing.What, did I stutter?Thats right, the rest of the world doesnt owe you a blessed thing just because you exist.I know this statement will dismay some of you. Maybe you were raised in a household where your parental units always made sure things went smoothly for you, and you havent had to lift a finger for ...
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• Current Events for Homeschool?

  
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  Today my son, Spencer, wants to watch the Senate hearings on the Benghazi case.  He suggested that we do it … Continue reading »
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• The Learning Network Blog: Guest Post | ‘Sliding Into Homelessness’: A Student Essay and Teaching Resources

  
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  An essay from a homeless young adult paired with Times reporting, discussion questions and an invitation to students to post comments and thoughts.        
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• Watch a Librarian Rap After a Dance Party With the Mavs ManiACCS

  
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  I promise I’ll stop talking about The Big Read Dallas soon. I just have one more thing to share. The great folks at TZOM Films gave a lot of their time and talent to shoot this teaser video for us from our Read-In at Klyde Warren Park a couple of Saturdays ago. If you weren’t able to make it, that’s okay. ...
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• The Civic Role of American Music

  
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  David Tucker and Nathan Tucker have penned a brief at the American Enterprise Institute about the role music plays in American civic life. Heres an excerpt from the abstract : Civic life is the life we live in dealing with problems of common concern. It is our public life, as opposed to our private life. In a ...
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• ACRL 2013 Conference Notes: Henry Rollins Keynote

  
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  ACRL Keynote Speaker: Henry Rollins (links: his official website ; his Wikipedia entry ). Date: Thursday, April 11, 2013, 4:20pm. (My notes are short on this one, but it is because Mr. Rollins is a force to reckon with, and how can you take notes from someone who moves with the force of a hurricane? Anyhow, I did ...
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• Program to Mix Civics and Sports

  
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  Bronx kids who want play ball in a new league would have to abide by the No. 1 rule: Give back to the community. The proposed Community Board Athletic Leadership League – C-BALL – would require participants, boys and girls ages seven to 17, to regularly attend community board meetings. Abdul “Sleep” Johnson, ...
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• Board starts new meetings with staff Tue.; residents complete Civics 101

  
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  Davidsons Town Board has added a new date to its schedule, an afternoon meeting with town staff on the first Tuesday of every month, beginning this week. Meanwhile, a group of residents recently became the latest class to graduate from the towns Civics 101 citizens academy. Also, the town will start a series of ...
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• #ADVOCACY: Google Does Harm To Privacy & Suffers An Hour’s Income For Infractions

  
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  Google as a gateway spying agency? What you think about Google’s (and Facebook’s. And Twitter’s…) efforts to collect personal information of its users probably says quite a bit about what you think about human nature: If you don’t mind a database of your online activities being used by social networks and ...
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• Give Me Security or Give Me Death

  
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  Human history is full of stories of people making remarkable choices that have altered the future course. In the realm of public affairs, the most basic choice – if you distill it down… Read More →
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• ACRL 2013 Conference Notes: Panel on Questioning Authority

  
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  ACRL Panel Session Topic: Questioning Authority: Standard Three and the Critical Classroom Date: Thursday, April, 11, 2013 at 8:00am To be perfectly honest, this was not quite as described on the program. I thought it would be more about "teaching students to meet the objectives and outcomes of the ACRL Information ...
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• ACRL 2013 Conference Notes: Geoffrey Canada Opening Keynote

  
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  ACRL Opening Keynote Speaker: Geoffrey Canada , President and CEO Harlem Childrens Zone. Date: Wednesday, April 10, 2013, 4:00pm Opens the keynote by pointing out that President Obama is asking for funding to replicate his work and that of the HCZ.  Librarians control knowledge of the world. Librarians ...
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• #FUNDRAISING: Crowdfunding Response To Boston Bombing Raises Hope & Caution

  
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  One of the wonderful qualities of Americans is the way we respond with our time and our money when a terrible shock or natural disaster hits our fellow countrypeople. The bombings in Boston on the 15th were certainly ‘terrible shocks’ and as homemade and smartphone videos make clear, volunteers and fellow ...
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• Exemplary Civics Programs Highlighted

  
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  Into the recent buzz about civics education comes a new brief outlining six best practices in that discipline and featuring several programs that focus on those practices. The paper, released this week by the Education Commission of the States, emphasizes an approach to civics that capitalizes on students interest ...
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