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Word of the Week: Connoisseur

The Vocab Film Festival Word of the Week is: Connoisseur.
Check out this recent student contest submission to the Vocab Videos Film Festival....

Vocab Videos currently is running a contest where you can submit your own vocab video and photo entries for a chance to win over $20,000 in scholarships and monthly and grand prizes from A-List Education, Zinch, Knewton, & Cerebellum.

Get your students involved for a fun class project opportunity! Support participating nonprofit organizations—Harlem Children’s Zone, Boys & Girls Clubs of Boston, Urban Word, and Year Up—just by voting on your favorite entries. Special prizes and donations go to the nonprofit with the most votes at the close of the Festival.

BREAKING: New Mexico Outlaws Corporal Punishment in Schools!

Heart Magazine magazine named New Mexico Gov. Susana Martinez “Woman of the Year” for her dedication to children’s advocacy and her efforts to keep children safe – and today she lived up to her reputation as she signed into law HB 172 - a law prohibiting corporal punishment as a disciplinary sanction in public schools.

Earlier this month Martinez signed an Anti-Bullying Bill into law and HB172 will further increase protections for New Mexico school children.

We spoke with renown Author and Educator Rosalind Wiseman, who recently hosted a bullying discussion from the White House, who had this to say:

“Any school that condones or doesn't explicitly condemn corporal punishment as a disciplinary strategy will have no credibility to talk to its students about bullying. Simply, if the students know the adults in the school can hit, slap them or worse, it sends the message that physical domination is how you address conflict. I honestly, can't think of a worse policy to alienate our children. ”

New Mexico is now the 31st state to outlaw corporal punishment in public schools. The United States is one of the only developed countries in the world that allows Corporal Punishment in schools - with 107 countries having national bans in place.

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</i></span></div><div style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, Times, serif;"><i>Heart Magazine</i> magazine named New Mexico Gov. Susana Martinez  “<i>Woman of the Year</i>” for her dedication to children’s advocacy and her efforts to keep children safe – and today she lived up to her reputation as she signed into law HB 172  - a law prohibiting corporal punishment as a disciplinary sanction in public schools. </span></div><div style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, Times, serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, Times, serif;">Earlier this month Martinez signed an Anti-Bullying Bill into law and HB172 will further increase protections for New Mexico school children. </span></div><div style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, Times, serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, Times, serif;">We spoke with renown Author and Educator Rosalind Wiseman, who recently hosted a bullying discussion from the White House, who had this to say:</span></div><blockquote style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, Times, serif;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>“Any school that condones or doesn't explicitly condemn corporal punishment as a disciplinary strategy will have no credibility to talk to its students about bullying. Simply, if the students know the adults in the school can hit, slap them or worse, it sends the message that physical domination is how you address conflict. I honestly, can't think of a worse policy to alienate our children. ”</span></blockquote><div style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, Times, serif;">New Mexico is now the 31st state to outlaw corporal punishment in public schools. The United States is one of the only developed countries in the world that allows Corporal Punishment in schools - with 107 countries having national bans in place.</span></div><div style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 0in; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, Times, serif;"><br />
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Police Pepper Spray 8 Year Old in Classroom

Smells Like: Colorado , police

An 8 year old boy throws a temper tantrum -- albeit a somewhat dangerous one, where he pulls wood off the walls, and the police come in and pepper spray him.

What do you think? To spray or not to spray?

Story: Police pepper spray 8-year old

Word of the Week: Upbraid

Smells Like: contest , video

The Vocab Film Festival Word of the Week is: Upbraid.
Check out this recent filmmaker contest submission to the Vocab Videos Film Festival....

Vocab Videos currently is running a contest where you can submit your own vocab video and photo entries for a chance to win over $20,000 in scholarships and monthly and grand prizes from A-List Education, Zinch, Knewton, & Cerebellum.

Get your students involved for a fun class project opportunity! Support participating nonprofit organizations—Harlem Children’s Zone, Boys & Girls Clubs of Boston, Urban Word, and Year Up—just by voting on your favorite entries. Special prizes and donations go to the nonprofit with the most votes at the close of the Festival.

INFOGRAPHIC: THE COST OF DROPPING OUT

Smells Like: dropouts , infographic

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URGENT! Call RIGHT NOW to end Corporal Punishment in NM!

Smells Like: corporal punishment , New Mexico

Governor Susan Martinez will be on New Mexicos biggest talk radio show today at 11am eastern, 15 minutes from now. There is a Corporal Punishment Ban that passed the house and senate that is just waiting for her to sign... Please call-in and ask her to sign the CP BAN into law! You can listen live to Bob Clark’s show on its web site at http://www.770kkob.com/ The call-in number is (505) 243-3333. We are SO CLOSE to our first big http://LostTheBelt.org/ victory! LETS ROLL!

Word of the Week: Bewilder

Smells Like: contest , video

The Vocab Film Festival Word of the Week is: Bewilder.
Check out this recent filmmaker contest submission to the Vocab Videos Film Festival....

Vocab Videos currently is running a contest where you can submit your own vocab video and photo entries for a chance to win over $20,000 in scholarships and monthly and grand prizes from A-List Education, Zinch, Knewton, & Cerebellum.

Get your students involved for a fun class project opportunity! Support participating nonprofit organizations—Harlem Children’s Zone, Boys & Girls Clubs of Boston, Urban Word, and Year Up—just by voting on your favorite entries. Special prizes and donations go to the nonprofit with the most votes at the close of the Festival.

Superman is here, and his name is Sal Khan

Smells Like: amazing , invention , video

Superman is here, and his name is Sal Khan. What started as a project to help teach his cousins has turned into what has the potential to completely change the game in education.

Khan has been recording simple video lessons for hundreds of different concepts from math to science to world history. He has made them all available for free online, and he has created some amazing tools that allow parents, teachers, home schoolers and tutors to track with real time fine grain detail the progress of the students.

Currently, teachers get to spend about 5% of their time interacting with students, the rest is spent lecturing, giving exams, etc. This new model completely turns the classroom upside down -- students can be assigned the videos for home work, and then in class they get mentoring from the teacher and each other.

Here is a Sal introducing the platform this month at TED:

Here is a more in depth overview of the features:

The system is FREE, being used in schools now, and is READY FOR YOUR SCHOOL TO ADOPT. We'd love to see some of our readers make an effort to pilot the KHAN program in your district.

Thoughts? Anyone have any direct experience with this?

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</div>Superman is here, and his name is Sal Khan. What started as a project to help teach his cousins has turned into what has the potential to completely change the game in education.<br />
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Khan has been recording simple video lessons for hundreds of different concepts from math to science to world history. He has made them all available for free online, and he has created some amazing tools that allow parents, teachers, home schoolers and tutors to track with real time fine grain detail the progress of the students.<br />
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Currently, teachers get to spend about 5% of their time interacting with students, the rest is spent lecturing, giving exams, etc. This new model completely turns the classroom upside down -- students can be assigned the videos for home work, and then in class they get mentoring from the teacher and each other.<br />
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Here is a Sal introducing the platform this month at TED:<br />
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Here is a more in depth overview of the features:<br />
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The system is FREE, being used in schools now, and is READY FOR YOUR SCHOOL TO ADOPT. We'd love to see some of our readers make an effort to pilot the KHAN program in your district.<br />
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Thoughts? Anyone have any direct experience with this?

US Sex Ed Actually Increases Pregnancies, Abortions + STD's

Smells Like: policy , sex , waste

Our friends at HypeVocal have an interesting article up about how we've been pissing away money on abstinence education -- and how it's actually increased teen pregnancy, STD's and abortions. We've dumped 1.5 billion $$$ over the last 15 years at abstinence only sex education -- which, much like the Dare Program, doesn't seem to work -- AT ALL.

A new bill, Repealing Ineffective and Incomplete Abstinence-Only Program Funding Act, seeks to divert $50 Million a year to the Personal Responsibility Education (PREP) program -- “evidence-based, comprehensive sex education programs”.

STORY: Wanna Cut Waste? Let’s Start with Abstinence-Only Education

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Our friends at HypeVocal have an interesting article up about how we've been pissing away money on abstinence education -- and how it's actually increased teen pregnancy, STD's and abortions. We've dumped 1.5 billion $$$ over the last 15 years at abstinence only sex education -- which, much like the Dare Program, doesn't seem to work -- AT ALL.<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">A new bill, <span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><a href="http://www.washingtonwatch.com/bills/show/111_SN_3878.html" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #333333; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Repealing Ineffective and Incomplete Abstinence-Only Program Funding Act</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;">,</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"> seeks to divert $50 Million a year to the Personal Responsibility Education (PREP) program -- “evidence-based, comprehensive sex education programs”.</span></span><br />
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<b>STORY: </b><a href="http://hypervocal.com/news/2011/wanna-cut-waste-lets-start-with-abstinence-only-education/">Wanna Cut Waste? Let’s Start with Abstinence-Only Education</a>

VIDEO: Bully Gets Owned

Smells Like: australia , bully

This scranny kid walks up and punches another kid in the face twice, unprovoked. He then gets body slammed. All caught on tape.

Students at the Oscars

Smells Like: New York , oscars

Teacher Fired Over "Have You Drugged Your Kid Today?" Bumper Sticker

Smells Like: 1st amendment , Arizona , drugs , expression

An English teacher was fired after refusing to remove a bumper sticker for her car that read "Have You Drugged Your Kid Today?"

She says it was political commentary on the over medication of students and she never discussed it in class, but some parents complained which led to her being asked to remove it.

She clearly has a right to political expression, and it would be hard to argue the bumper sticker is obscene. The only real question is can the school regulate what is on her car while it is on school property.

What do you think?

STORY: Teacher: I Was Fired Over A Bumper Sticker

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