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CREATION+DESTRUCTION skillshares and 24/4

April 23, 2010 by

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“when it is just you being oppressed and silenced and patronised and belittled, you’re not gonna learn anything!  you’re just gonna be, like, I wanna get out of here.”  kati cubby on blazing textbooks this week on creation+destruction skillshares, a new skillshare project centred on giving oppressed people (especially people of colour, women, queers, and […]

Don’t you want to go to school in Finland?

April 11, 2010 by

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Students in Finland go to school less, don’t wear uniforms, take less tests, aren’t stratified into higher and lower achieving classes, get to call their teachers by their first name, wear their socks around all day, and know about four foreign languages – and they’re  getting the best results in the world! How mystifying this […]

CIA on Campus!

April 11, 2010 by

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Reporting from Counterpunch: Throughout the 1970s, ’80s and ’90s, independent grassroots movements to keep the Central Intelligence Agency off American university campuses were broadly supported by students, professors and community members. The ethos of this movement was captured in Ami Chen Mills’ 1990 book, C.I.A. Off Campus. Mills’ book gave voice to the multiple reasons why […]

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