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"Olympian Gabby Douglas - the gymnast is golden, but her family is obscured" by Tera W. Hunter | 09 August 2012 Olympian Gabby Douglas has broken through a racial barrier in sports only to be boxed in by old canards about who she is and where she comes from. The more complex story of her family’s influence on her rise on the way to gold deserves to be told. |
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 "Why the Online Education Craze Will Leave Many Students Behind" by Noliwe M. Rooks | 30 July 2012 You have probably heard some of the hoopla about elite universities offering free online courses through Coursera, a new Silicon Valley start-up founded by Stanford University computer-science professors Daphne Koller and Andrew Ng. In just the past few weeks, Coursera has added has added 12 universities to its lineup, bringing its total to 16, including Princeton, the University of Pennsylvania, Duke and Johns Hopkins. |
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"Buddhist Monks Against Humanitarian Aid?" by Krystina Frieldander | 02 August 2012 When we last read about Burmese monks in the Western press, it was in the context of mass protests against Burma's brutal military junta and their visit to Aung San Suu Kyi's home in homage of the courageous pro-democracy activist. It is surprising then, shocking even, that Burma's monks have come down on what is so blatantly the wrong side of a humanitarian crisis. |
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George Orwell and the N.C.A.A. By Gary Alan Fine | July 24, 2012 (The New York Times) On Monday, the National Collegiate Athletic Association made a remarkable — and disturbing — decision. As one of the sanctions against Pennsylvania State University, it determined that all of Penn State’s football victories from 1998 to 2011 were to be “vacated.” Whoosh! As a result, Joe Paterno no longer holds the major college coaching record for career wins. Someone else now has that honor. George Orwell would be amused. |
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Aging in the Criminal Justice System By Tina Maschi | June 2012 (CSWE Gero-Ed Center) Aging in the criminal justice system, especially in prison, is not just aging as usual. Between 1995 and 2010, the U.S. prison population age 55 and older grew at six times the rate of the overall prison population (Human Rights Watch [HRW], 2012). This dramatic increase was not the result of a surge in crimes committed by older adults, but rather the logical outcome of the 1980s “tough-on-crime” policies and stricter sentencing laws, such as “Three Strikes, You’re Out” and “Truth-in-Sentencing” (Rikard & Rosenberg, 2007). With these policies and laws came longer mandatory prison terms and reduced opportunities for parole. Currently, adults age 50 and older comprise about 12% (n=186,000) of the 2.3 million general prison population (Sabol & Couture, 2008). READ FULL ARTICLE |
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PBS, "Bigger hurdles, than dismal job growth for unemployed," By Rebecca Dixon, July 25, 2012
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The Huffington Post,"We Shouldn't Have It All," By Susan Celia Greenfield, July 27, 2012
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Women's Media Center, "Life in Lady Writer Heaven," By Courtney Martin, July 23, 2012
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The Huffington Post, "Ignoring the Real Issues Behind Fast and Furious," By Joy Strickland, July 18, 2012
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Aljazeera, "When will the US get real gun control?" By Joy Strickland, July 24, 2012
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