Friday, 27 January 2012

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Ethnic-studies book ban in Arizona will include Shakespeare’s ‘The Tempest’  16 Jan 2012
New York Daily News An Arizona school district largely made up of Mexican-Americans has been forced to slash its ethnic studies program, and now the books are going, too. The Tucson Unified School District released the titles of its banned books on Friday, a lengthy list that removes every textbook dealing with...
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Ethnic book ban in Arizona school district includes all books about Mexican-American history, even Shakespeare’s ‘The Tempest’ 17 Jan 2012
New York Daily News An Arizona school district largely made up of Mexican-Americans has been forced to slash its ethnic studies program, and now the books are going, too. The Tucson Unified School District released the titles of its banned books on Friday, a lengthy list that removes every textbook dealing with...
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Sri Lanka ethnic Tamil party rejects war report 16 Jan 2012
Khaleej Times COLOMBO ' Sri Lanka's ethnic minority Tamil party has rejected a report by a government-appointed commission investigating alleged war crimes...
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Advanced Placement courses and racial minority students 13 Jan 2012
The Examiner A 2010 NCES publication by Susan Aud and colleagues titled, “Status and Trends in the Education of Racial Ethnic Groups” noted in 1999-2008 the number of Hispanics and Blacks who registered for the AP testing tripped. Overall the average score was 3.08, but the average...
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Clinton Calls Myanmar Counterpart, Suu Kyi After Prisoners Freed 15 Jan 2012
Bloomberg U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton reached out to her Myanmar counterpart after the Southeast Asian nation released hundreds of political prisoners, as the U.S. moved to upgrade diplomatic relations strained for more than two decades. Clinton spoke with Myanmar Foreign Minister Wunna Maung Lwin...
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CARA B Naturally® Arrives in Target Stores Across the U.S. 25 Jan 2012
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Myanmar and Karen rebels sign ceasefire 12 Jan 2012
Al Jazeera Myanmar's government and one of the country's most prominent ethnic rebel groups, the Karen National Union (KNU), have signed a ceasefire after decades of civil conflict. A delegation of ministers from the capital Naypyidaw and senior members of the KNU signed the pact in Hpa-an, the capital of...
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Pontianak: The city of two rivers & three cultures 22 Jan 2012
Jakarta Post Pontianak lies on the banks of Indonesia’s longest river, the Kapuas, which rises about 1,140 kilometers upstream in central Borneo, the ancestral homeland of the Dayak, and then winds its way through the dense jungles of western Borneo toward the sea. Bathing by the Kapuas River in Kampung Dalam,...
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Tucson Right to Eliminate Ethnic Studies Courses 25 Jan 2012
Yahoo Daily News COMMENTARY | , the Tucson, Ariz., school board has eliminated Mexican-American studies program in its high schools. The closing came after the state superintendent, following an administrative law judge's ruling that the studies were taught in a "biased, political and emotionally charged...
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