Hope in Harmony

01/16/2012

At home or at school, give children messages that deliberately contrast stereotypes by providing books, dolls, toys, wall decorations, records, and TV programs that show men and women in nontraditional roles, people of color in leadership positions, people with disabilities doing activities familiar to children, interracial/non-traditional families, etc.

We learn prejudice from what we see. Teach something different.

Happy MLK Day!

12/16/2011

America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week!

~ Evan Esar

11/28/2011

Entrepreneur Al Meyers was attending a TED conference in Palm Springs in 2009 when a presentation by TED Prize winner and Venezuelan conductor and economist Jose Antonio Abreu sparked an idea.

10/31/2011

How is Earth's sole Superpower letting it's kids fall behind?

View the Global Report Card. View the Methodological Appendix Video: Jay Greene discusses the studyPodcast: Marty West interviews Jay Greene about the Global Report Card

09/28/2011

“When you have teachers who have to have second jobs… teachers that are living below the poverty level... then I think there is something wrong… and as a society WE need to really change that culture. WE need to flip it around to say that being a teacher is the most important job in our society."

AMERICAN TEACHER is the feature-length documentary produced and directed by Academy Award--winning filmmaker Vanessa Roth; produced by Nínive Calegari, co-fo...

09/26/2011

"We're all successful because somebody invested in our education."

~ President Obama

09/24/2011

What happens when you take a classroom of students, add 24 iPads as well as sound recording gear and a live band?

ALL MUSIC ENTIRELY COMPOSED AND PERFORMED ON IPAD iTunes link: http://tinyurl.com/6fq6vab YouTube's very FIRST Digital Orchestra of 24 iPads, all performing ...

09/14/2011

Something to keep in mind as we drink our $4.25 cafe lattes...

Some improvements, like in infant mortality, but overall picture is bad; Researchers warn of long-lasting effects on low-income kids

08/30/2011

You will never stand as tall as when you kneel to help a child.

Featuring the heartbreaking stories of young people across the country who have been pushed to the brink, educators who are burned out and worried that students aren’t developing the skills they need, and parents who are trying to do what’s best for their kids, Race to Nowhere points to the silent e...

08/16/2011

Musician,
Michael John Blake,
Interprets the mathematical constant "Tau"
To 126 decimal places.

Musician interprets the mathematical constant Tau to 126 decimal places. For an mp3 download of "What Tau Sounds Like" visit http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/michael...

08/11/2011

"The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but reveal to them their own." ~ Disraeli

08/05/2011

Can the power of music make the brain come alive?

Throughout his career Dr. Oliver Sacks, neurologist and acclaimed author, whose book Awakenings was made into a Oscar-nominated feature film starring Robin Williams and Robert De Niro, has encountered...