Sad news from Mozambique: Illegal poachers have killed all the rhinos in Limpopo National Park, a large wildlife reserve in the southeast African country, according to news reports.
Park director António Abacar was quoted as saying this week that no rhinos had been seen since January, “which means that the ones that lived in the park are probably dead,” according to the Portugal News.
With all the rhinos gone, poachers are now turning to elephants for their tusks. The horns and tusks are valued for their supposed medicinal value, despite the fact that horns are made of the same basic material as fingernails, with no healing properties. The park spans 4,247 square miles (11,000 square kilometers), an area more than twice the size of the U.S. state of Rhode Island.
Meanwhile, Scientific American reports that for the first time in 33 years, a hunter has been allowed to import a trophy into the United States from a black rhino he shot in Namibia, outraging conservationists.
Jose was a top math scholar and dreamt of being a mechanical engineer.
He was awarded a full scholarship to Arizona State University. When Jose graduated in 2011, there was a shortage of mechanical engineers in his state, but he could not apply for the jobs his other classmates were seeking because he was, and is, undocumented.
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ROSENDO LÓPEZ ARTISTA MEXICANO HUICHOL
FOTO: NIÑA LARVA
Arte es vida <3
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I see that I am a little piece of a big, big universe, and that makes it right.
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Education in the broadest sense [means] exposure to all aspects of our history and culture.
I gotta say- this really sums up what the problems with bilingual education materials are in the United States.
I was going to use this mini book as a support in our 5 senses unit- but this page.
Oh this page.
las tacos?
Also, as my kids (who have cognitive impairments) pointed out to me, tacos do not crunch when you eat them. At least not the (authentic) tacos they eat. We did talk about how tacos dorados/flautas crunch when eaten, but even then the kids didn’t make this book due to the grammatical error.
At least Scholastic tried to be culturally relevant? But seriously, things like this appear all the time in US bilingual education materials, which are usually just translations of the English materials. You can’t afford to proofread your Spanish materials? Really?
UChicago’s bookstore? Looks vaguely familiar…
Group project for my Borderlands class this semester. We also created essays to accompany each individual card, one of which I posted earlier in my tumblr.
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Hagiographic media coverage of certain charter schools leads the public to believe that the battle over how to educate poor and struggling Black and Latino students has even won. With the low numbers of Blacks and Latinos graduating from college, this is far from the case.
…To be clear, the high-flying numbers achieved by schools like the Success Academy Charter Schools in Harlem, for example — where between 94 to 97 percent of all Black and Latino students pass state achievement tests — should be lauded.
… But we have to want even more for our kids. Students in top schools with equivalent test scores tend to graduate college upwards of 70 percent of the time. Why isn’t the same true for the Black and Latino students within highly touted and publicized charter schools? It is time to focus on the educational models that have an answer to that question, and the long history of proof to back it up — not the ones with the flashiest press kits or the most charismatic communications representatives.
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