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CURRICULUM: Driving While Black/Driving While Brown: A Mathematics Project About Racial Profiling

January 1, 2009 0 comments

The purpose of this project is to investigate racial profiling, or Driving While Black or Driving While Brown (DWB/DWB). African Americans and Latinos/as have complained, filed suit, and organized against what they believe are racist police practices—being stopped, searched, harassed, and arrested because they “fit” a racial profile—they are African American (Black) or Latino/a (Brown). But is this true? How do we know? And can mathematics be a useful tool in helping us answer this question?

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Obama's In, What's Next?

December 13, 2008 0 comments


Join Teachers for Social Justice in a discussion about Obama's election and the people's agenda.

Saturday December 13
5-7 PM
Decima Musa
1901 S. Loomis

Economic Crisis
Healthcare
Foreign Policy
Education
Environment

What is the agenda we want?
How do we help make it happen?

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TSJ Collage

November 15, 2008 0 comments


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Chicago Local School Council (LSC) Summit

August 23, 2008


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Curriculum: Transforming the Alphabet Letters into Animals and Creatures

July 5, 2008 0 comments

Students will be introduced to the artist Shahzia Sikander’s work. Shahzia is a Pakistani artist, who lives in New York and works with miniature paintings and installations. She explores Islamic and Arabic calligraphy and miniature paintings. In some of her earlier work, she used the Arabic alphabet in her paintings. The Arabic calligraphy and alphabet letters flow and transform from letter to horses. She sees movement in the letters and emphasis their beautiful movement by layering the letters with images of running horses.

Curriculum Writer: Maryam G.
Level: K-12
Area: Visual Art
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Reccommended Reading on School Closings

April 22, 2008

STUDENTS AS COLLATERAL DAMAGE? (A preliminary study of Renaissance 2010 school closing in the midsouth - Jan 2007)

DATA AND DEMOCRACY PROJECT: Investing in Neighborhoods (Paper #1: Examining CPS’ plan to close, consolidate, turn-around 18 schools - Feb 2008)

ANDERSEN PARENTS/TEACHERS POWERPOINT
THE BIG PICTURE School-Initiated Reforms, Centrally Initiated Reforms,and Elementary School Achievement in Chicago (1990-2005)

TSJ POSITION ON RENAISSANCE 2010 (Jan 2005)
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