A new report by California Latinas for Reproductive Justice reveals that pregnant and parenting young Latinas face systemic discrimination in educational institutions and lack social supports in their communities.

Written by Rocio Cordoba for RHRealityCheck.org – News, commentary and community for reproductive health and justice.

Cross posted from Worldwatch Institute’s Nourishing the Planet.

Book review: Garrison, Mark J. A Measure of Failure: The Political Origins of Standardized Testing. Albany NY: SUNY Press, 2009. 140 pages.

Essentially Garrison’s book critiques standardized testing in the public schools as a power trip — what type of power trip a particular test is for, Garrison argues, depends upon the standards which are erected and the purposes to which the final scores on the tests are used. It is argued, then, that standardized tests have had different purposes in different historical periods. The high-stakes testing regime of the No Child Left Behind Act (of the Bush administration) is argued to be destructive (in this regard) of public schooling in general.

(Crossposted at Orange)

This is the second in a three-part series of blogs about Danielle’s visit with DISC project schools in Mukono District, Uganda. Crossposted from Worldwatch Institute’s Nourishing the Planet blog.

President Kenyatta Mandingo will propagandize your babies on their first day of school tomorrow, and of course you know he’s gonna talk about sex. Here’s what he’ll say.

Full Text of President Obama’s Back to School Speech