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Two articles on spanking: Spanking lowers IQ; Research from Sweden

Posted on October 10, 2009 by kwilder

KW: Our readers had a vibrant conversation about spanking when I posted an article about spanking being permitted at schools in Missouri. That post, with 23 comments, is: here. (excerpt from) Emax Health Spanking Can Lower Children’s Intelligence by Denise Reynolds RD / Sep 25, 2009 Two new studies suggest that children who are spanked […]

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In Long Island: The Permibus is coming to town with workshops and classes and magic activism

Posted on October 7, 2009 by kwilder

October 10th through the 13th, the Permibus will be in Long Island in the St. James area. For details or to sign up for a class, please call 406-721-8427, or give an e-mail to the crew — Megan, Stan and Delyla — at skillsmc at gmail dot com. Amazing Schedule Gatherings and workshops at the […]

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Patchogue-Medford seniors win battle with school board

Posted on October 1, 2009 by kwilder

KW: One victory for providing fair and useful public education. BOCES is a cooperative system of local school districts which is supposed to help them pool resources to offer programs that individual schools might not be able to provide themselves. (There are good and bad points to the BOCES system. But, it has many important […]

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Alert: Need healing, conflict resolution and community reflection at North Babylon High School

Posted on October 1, 2009 by kwilder

KW: There are many angles to look at the recent news at North Babylon High School: A teenager who attends North Babylon High School was injured when a pipe bomb he was creating at his home blew up. The teenager is reported to have material related to the Columbine incident at his home. And, now, […]

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AP: Drinking water at many schools contains lead, pesticides, other toxins

Posted on September 28, 2009 by kwilder

Drinking water at schools contains lead, pesticides, other toxins: study The Associated Press / Friday, September 25th 2009 CUTLER, Calif. – Over the last decade, the drinking water at thousands of schools across the country has been found to contain unsafe levels of lead, pesticides and dozens of other toxins. An Associated Press investigation found […]

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Link to PeaceSmiths event photos

Posted on September 13, 2009 by kwilder

KW writes: Only giving one photo below as a teaser. Come on over to the PeaceSmiths web-site! Lots of cool archives. Also, announcements, endorsements and information. PeaceSmiths Annual Dinner-Concert 2009 photos: here.

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Obama: Are children natural learners? Or, must they be forced to pay attention?

Posted on September 9, 2009 by kwilder

KW: Jerry Mintz is the Director of the Alternative Education Resource Organization (AERO), based in Roslyn Heights, Long Island, New York. AERO has many functions, including being a national gathering place for information about co-operative schooling, alternative schools, democratic schools and homeschooling. Jerry wrote a Letter to the Editor about Obama’s school speech and sent […]

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Random thoughts on Obama’s school speech

Posted on September 8, 2009 by kwilder

The full text of the speech, as released by the White House previously, is: here. Kimberly writes: In my house, we are just not amused by status quo politicians. So, I tried not have a lot of hot feelings either way about Obama making a speech for school children, or the right wing response to […]

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LI Concerts Summer 2009

Posted on July 24, 2009 by iwilder

Letter and listings from Richard de Bruin… Dear Folk Music Fans, The next Our Times Coffee House www.OurTimesCoffeehouse.org is on Friday September 15 with Gathering Time (Glen Roethel, Stuart Markus & Hillary Foxsong) www.gatheringtimetrio.com and LUCKY 13 (Marci Geller, Cathy Kreger & Susan DeVita) www.lucky13.fm Our Times Coffeehouse, Ethical Humanist Society, 38 Old Country Road, […]

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NYC City Schools: Can there be a balance with “Mayoral control” and parent participation?

Posted on July 20, 2009 by kwilder

KW: I find it suspicious and worrisome that the Mayor wants ultimate control and authority with the whole citywide school system, and that he sees a potential parent-training center as a threat. Even if the people running that center are “the opposition” or “the dissent”, it seems only fair to have a group or groups […]

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NY State Regents Exam gives Mayor Bloomberg free publicity…

Posted on June 22, 2009 by kwilder

h/t to Elizabeth Benjamin at the Daily News political blog (excerpt from) NY Post Mike gets ed. test mileage By Angela Montefinise / June 21, 2009 Mayor Bloomberg got some free publicity on the state-created English Regents exam this month, scoring a positive mention in a reading-comprehension passage.

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Clearwater Festival Coming Up!

Posted on June 13, 2009 by kwilder

(Ian and I probably won’t make it this year. But, PeaceSmiths is going to have a table.-KW) For more information and a link to buy advanced tickets, go: here Clearwater Great Hudson River Revival by the water at Croton Park Saturday June 20th and Sunday June 21 Music by: Taj Mahal, Richie Havens, Readnex Poetry […]

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Hide from your tv! Thoughts on analog to digital

Posted on June 13, 2009 by kwilder

The whole universe seemed to change last week. Americans were forced to make the switch from their old television system, to something new. In the process, some folks lost tv reception altogether. Newsday directs these folks, “Viewers without cable, satellite or other pay service have three options: sign up for such service; purchase a TV […]

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Police officer tasers high school student in cellphone incident

Posted on June 5, 2009 by kwilder

Law professor and blogger Jonathan Turley gives excellent coverage of this story, including links to similar incidents. Very worth going to his post. (excerpt from) the blog of Constitutional Law Professor Jonathan Turley Can You Hear Me Now? Police Officer Tasers High School Student In Dispute Over Use of Cellphone Published June 5, 2009 A […]

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