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My aha! moment about Gosnell media coverage
I must have a case of learned helplessness: with so much media silence about real threats to women’s reproductive health, I no longer noticed the silence, nor expected that it could be changed. Continue reading
Posted in Life Issues, News
Tagged Abortion, Catholic, Gosnell, Kermit Gosnell, Planned Parenthood, pro-life, Reproductive health
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DevInfo 7.0 – easy access to Millennium Developmt Goal Data
This looks like an amazingly useful tool and a wonderful way to help students understand and discover the state of the world. When school is out, this is high on my list of things to explore. Posted from a … Continue reading
Posted in Data Visualization, Economics, People, Social issues
Tagged MDG, Poverty, world data
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Seeing multiple perspectives
I am always looking for ways to help my students see the complexity in most situations — that the things that “everybody knows” may be only part of the truth — or not true at all — and that knowing … Continue reading
Posted in Sociology, Video
Tagged Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Sociological Imagination, Story
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