DFA Newport

Posted July 3, 2007 - 12:42pm by MaskedMarauder


Newport DFA

This site will also be an adjunct venue for the Newport DFA group.

We can move a lot of the functionality here for greater control. But, the core remains at http://dfalink.com/newport

The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education

December 9, 2010 - 1:37pm — edstrom
✔ A bookclub selection!

Initially a supporter of the contemporary movement to reform/improve public education, Dr. Ravitch's experiences with actual instances of attempts to implement those strategies turned her into an opponent of them. The singleminded drive to have children pass testing to standards in reading and math while otherwise ignoring curriculum and what, if anything, is actually learned, was in fact undermining education, not advancing it.

FCC MX Group 401 Decision Out 2010-08-03

Posted August 3, 2010 - 12:17pm by edstrom

In document FCC-10-142A1.doc the FCC announced today the tentative decision on the resolution of the competing broadcast NCE license applications for the Lincoln County, Oregon, region submitted in October, 2007.  Thirty days are allowed for appeals to be filed. The text of the announcement follows.

No Soy El Army Justice Tour: Newport

July 28, 2010 - 1:17pm — edstrom

This August the No Soy El Army Justice Tour is coming to Newport.

When: August 29, 2010 - 3:00pm - 5:00pm
Where:
Atonement Lutheran Church
2325 N. Coast Hwy

Newport, OR

MTBC: Mexico Unconquered: Chronicles of Power and Revolt

July 16, 2010 - 12:24pm — edstrom

This is the regular meeting of the Moving Train Book Club, for September, 2010.

 From editorial reviews abstracted on Amazon: 

 

"Part journalism, part history, part call to action, John Gibler's book chronicles not only the continuing colonization of Mexico, but also the continuity of resistance to it. Revealing those forces of resistance, which sometimes take the form of mass explosions, and other times take the form of individual expressions of indignation and defiance, Gibler helps us see Mexico with new eyes--a Mexico that has always been constituted by revolutionary dreams of freedom and equality."
When: September 8, 2010 - 6:30pm - 8:00pm
Where:
Centro de Ayuda
410 SW 9th St

Newport, OR

MTBC: Idiot America: How Stupidity Became a Virtue in the Land of the Free

July 16, 2010 - 12:14pm — edstrom

This is the regular meeting of the Moving Train Book Club, for August, 2010.

From Publishers Weekly (Amazon)

Journalist Pierce delivers a rapier-sharp rant on how the America of Franklin and Edison, Fulton and Ford has devolved into America the Uninformed, where citizens hostile to science are exchanging fact for fiction, and faith for reason, and glutting themselves on reality TV and conspiracy theories.

When: August 11, 2010 - 6:30pm - 8:00pm
Where:
Centro de Ayuda
410 SW 9th St

Newport, OR

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