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I don’t know if the Education Times site is new, or just new to me, but I’m going to be making it a regular stop from now on.
It’s a straightforward site — links to news articles on K-12 and higher education, with brief summaries — but it’s got a lot of stuff, and it’s easy to navigate. Because they emphasize quantity over depth, they cover a lot more ground than Inside Higher Ed or the Chronicle. If it’s the kind of thing you’re interested in, you’ll be interested.
And they (like us) are on Twitter, too.
A professor at the University of East London has been suspended from his position for predicting that there may “be real bankers hanging from lampposts” at Wednesday’s protests against the G20 economic summit.
Chris Knight, a professor of anthropology, is an organizer of G20 protests in London this week. He told the BBC that if bankers and government ministers don’t “surrender their power, obviously it’s going to get us even more wound up and things could get nasty.”
Knight’s G20 Meltdown is just one of many groups planning actions in London this week, but Knight’s eagerness to make incendiary statements to the media has made him the most quoted figure in the movement right now.
The UEL’s decision to suspend him has confirmed that position.
Connecticut eighth grader Patrick Abbazia attended classes wrapped in duct tape Friday morning to protest his East Shore Midddle School’s “no touching” policy.
Earlier in the week, East Shore principal Catherine Williams sent home a letter telling parents that “physical contact is prohibited to keep all students safe in the learning environment.” The announcement was prompted by an incident in which a student required medical attention after being kicked in the groin, but the letter specifically banned “hugging” and “horseplay” as well.
Contacted by the Connecticut Post, Williams said she was “only concerned about unsafe behaviors,” but Abbazia claimed teachers had told him that high-fives and pats on the back were out of bounds as well. Superintendent of Schools Harvey Polansky told the paper that principals would use their discretion in interpreting the policy.
Abbazia had a friend tape his torso at the shoulders and elbows while he was waiting for the school bus, and kept the tape on until fourth period, just after noon. School officials called his father in for a conference, telling him that Patrick had misunderstood the policy.
The elder Abbazia told a reporter that he supported his son’s actions. “He is using his freedom as an American citizen to protest,” he said. “Those are the kind of people who get ahead in the world.”
As we’ve noted before, the New School In Exile, a student activist group at New York City’s New School university, has pledged to shut the school down on April 1 if university president Bob Kerrey doesn’t resign. With that deadline now just five days away and Kerrey still ensconced in the president’s office, NSIE is preparing for a showdown.
The group has held several events this week, including a co-sponsored student-faculty forum at NYU, a staged reading of a short satirical play about Kerrey (now online), and a party late yesterday night.
They’ve scheduled a “student gathering and planning meeting” for six o’clock Sunday evening, though they’re tight-lipped about just what it is that’s being planned — their calendar for next Wednesday reads as follows: “[insert your action here], lots of fun, anarchy and playfulness. Don’t miss it.”
Two campus police officers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have been suspended without pay after they were caught dumping several hundred copies of the MIT student newspaper.
The March 17 issue of The Tech carried a front-page article reporting on the arrest of an MIT campus cop on charges of trafficking prescription painkillers. That officer, Joseph D’Amelio, had been arrested three days earlier in possession of nearly a thousand OxyContin Roxicodone tablets.
On March 18 two MIT police officers came forward to admit that they had been removed three hundred copies of the previous day’s edition of The Tech from stands in the university’s student center, depositing them in a recycling bin outside the building.
The two officers have each been working at MIT for more than a decade, and the Executive Editor of The Tech has been quoted as saying that he does not wish to see them fired over the incident.
April 4 update: The Tech reports that one of the two officers has been fired, and the other remains under suspension. MIT refused to comment on the reason for the difference in punishment, and has not released either officer’s name.
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