Become a 2012 Orientation Leader!

Become a 2012 Orientation Leader! Calling all Steinhardt undergraduates students looking for a great leadership opportunity for this summer!  Applications are now available to become a Steinhardt Orientation Leader. Find out more about the position and the application process by...

Heads Up, Class of 2012: 100 Nights Before Commencement

Senior class: learn what you need to know about commencement including senior portraits, class rings, cap and gown orders, alumni activities, school ceremonies and more.  Grab some food, listen to some music, and purchase your Senior hoodie for just $10....

Fukushima’s No. 2 reactor heating up again (3 items)

Breaking News and Commentary from Citizens For Legitimate Government 12 Feb 2012 http://www.legitgov.org All links are here: http://www.legitgov.org/#breaking_news Tepco Says Fukushima Reactor Temperature Breaches Safety Limit –TEPCO: ‘We think the thermometer may be faulty.’ 13 Feb 2012 Tokyo Electric Power Co. said the temperature in one of the damaged reactors at its Fukushima nuclear station [...]

“The Christianist Infiltration of America’s Public Schools” (MUST-SEE)

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Food Navigator assesses the Food Safety Modernization Act

I am a daily reader of FoodNavigator-USA.com, a newsletter aimed at the food industry.  Occasionally the site collects posts on one subject.   This collection deals with food safety since Congress passed the new law more than a year ago.  The Interactive Timeline is particularly useful. Interactive timeline: The Food Safety Modernization Act:  A year [...]

Pepsi cuts 8,700 jobs; 4th quarter profits rise

Pepsi is about to put 8,700 of its worldwide employees out of work.   This might make you think the company is in trouble. Let’s have some fun with the numbers reported by Reuters in today’s New York Times.  Pepsi reports increases in: Annual dividends: 4% Expenditures on advertising: an additional $500 million Expenditures on display [...]

4th of 50 Plays: Another Kind of Opera Quiz

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3rd of 50 Plays: How Do You Say “Window” in Italian?

How Do You Say “Window” in Italian? With thanks to Chekhov’s Olga, Masha, and Irina for the inspiration. A dining room table with four chairs.  The tabletop is in disarray covered with photographs.  It’s evening, and the light in the small room comes from an overhead fixture.  The room itself is dusty, but not dirty.  [...]

New Pew study on tone of social network sites

Pew Internet & American Life Project just released a new study called “The tone of life on social networking sites” where they examine adult meanness and cruelty. This complements their piece on “Teens, kindness, and cruelty on social network sites.” Like teens, most adults find people on social network sites to be kind. But what [...]

World Economic Forum: More than Meets the Eye

I spent the last week at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. When my friends (y’all) learned I was going, some were supportive while others were horrified. A few called me an outright traitor. Given how much mythology there is around this event, I want to take a moment and briefly share my own [...]

MUSB Freshman Raises $1 Million: Her Startup Stores Passwords in the Cloud

Stacey Ferreira (UG '15) had always been fascinated with business and technology. From a young age, as she would pretend to own her own restaurant in her living room, it was clear that entrepreneurship was in Ferreira's future. Last summer,...

Grad Student Report: The Orchard Co-Founder Richard Gottehrer speaks about Embracing Changes in the Music Industry

(MUBG students with Richard Gottehrer, center.)Music Business grad student Maressa Levy writes this guest post for VELOCITY.Richard Gottehrer spoke to MUBG students during the final Professional Development Sequence event of the fall semester, urging listeners to "keep your eye on...

Joe Salvatore and Pedro Noguera Awarded NYU’s MLK Faculty Award

Joe Salvatore and Pedro Noguera have been awarded NYU’s Martin Luther King, Jr. Faculty Award. The award is presented annually to five faculty members at NYU who exemplify King’s spirit through their teaching, public service, leadership, and community-building activities. Salvatore, … Continue reading →

Gran Fury’s AIDS Activist Art Opens at Steinhardt’s 80WSE Galleries

NYU Steinhardt is proud to announce the opening of “Gran Fury: Read My Lips,” the first comprehensive exhibition documenting the work of Gran Fury, the influential AIDS activist arts collective. Gran Fury’s work raised public awareness of AIDS, put pressure … Continue reading →

Voice of Witness

Warning: even if this post doesn’t seem to be about education, it sort of really is.

Last night NYU’s Institute of Public Knowledge hosted a book discussion. The book was In this Place, Not of it: Narratives from Women’s Prisons. The discussants were editors Robin Levi and Ayelet Waldman, and narrator Francesca Salavieri. The co-sponsor was Voice of Witness, which is a nonprofit book series that gives voice to victims of injustice.

The discussion itself was pretty harrowing. Francesca spoke of life on the inside, of the routine abuses, of the deaths of friends, of the sense of utter hopelessness. The editors provided an overview of the prison system, based on the oral histories of women currently and formerly incarcerated, and on their own experiences working in the legal system.

What makes this relevant to an education blog is not the content itself - although more people should definitely be educated about the shit going on in American prisons - but the form of its presentation. Voice of Witness is expanding rapidly - volumes on North Korea, Colombia and the DRC are in the works - but what really sets it apart is that it considers the experience not just of the narrator, but also the reader. It does this through educational (there it is) resources and networks, which work to promote and discuss the books, spreading their field of influence. If the goal is to get the voices of victims of injustice heard, then education is of crucial importance. 

You can read more about what Voice of Witness is all about here: http://www.voiceofwitness.org/

It should come as not surprise that it is an initiative of Dave Eggers, the literary-activist juggernaut.

Also, the Institute of Public Knowledge is a pretty awesome set-up. Not that NYU needs another tuition-funded institute, but still, they run a tight ship, and there was free wine and cheese (which I suppose I technically paid for). Something about the building - 20 Cooper Square - makes it seem like important shit happens there. Makes me want to drop International Education for Journalism.

This is teacher-librarian Luis Soriano and his 2 burros, Alfa...

This is teacher-librarian Luis Soriano and his 2 burros, Alfa and Beto, working the Caribbean end of Colombia.

Now let’s talk about fair teacher pay and incentive schemes.

Walmart and food labels

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a new form of greenwashing?

Yesterday’s dotearth blog in the NY Times has a discussion of the ethical problems associated with confined animal operations. Like many others, I have serious qualms about how our meat is raised and slaughtered. While the adoption of factory farming … Continue reading →

Bolder, Broader Strategy to Ending Poverty's Influence on Education

American policy makers and reformers must be willing to accept the obvious: School reform efforts can't ignore the effects of poverty on children's lives or on the performance of schools.

We Must Do More Than Merely Avoid the NCLB Train Wreck

The Obama administration's decision to allow states to request waivers from No Child Left Behind was a step in the right direction, but only a baby step. Four in five schools will be deemed "failing" if nothing stops the "train wreck" that NCLB will inflict.

Spring 2012 Colloquium Schedule

The following is the colloquium schedule for Spring 2012 for the NYU Department of Communicative Sciences and Disorders. All talks are held on Tuesdays from 1:50pm-3:20pm in the 9th floor conference room of 665 Broadway. Feb. 7: Dr. Giulia Bencini,...

Dr Sidtis and Dr Kreiman talk about their new book "Foundations of voice studies"

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Penn State and the Crisis of Masculinity

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Standing by Our Boys

One reason for the popularity of Rob Reiner's coming-of-age classic "Stand by Me," as suggested by studies of boys, is that the film's depiction of friendships during adolescence is hauntingly familiar.

Music Tech's "DIY Audio Mixer" Featured on Instructables' Homepage

Shortly after having been uploaded, our Instructable entitled "DIY Audio Mixer," created by Professor Langdon Crawford, and put together in collaboration with undergraduates Nicholas Dooley and Sarah Streit, was fortunate enough to land a featured spot on Instructables' Home Page,...

Undergraduate James Neely named one of NYU's 15 Most Influential Students

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The Best of NYC

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Occupy São Paulo Under Threat

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Occupy Climate Change!

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The Force of Law #OWS

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Help Support ADA

Hello all! If you're involved in the nutrition world at all, you may have heard about the CMS statement on pediatric counseling for obesity. If you're not familiar, fear not. I am here to educate. Esentially, CMS determined it will...

Quantum Leap Delicious

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Too Much Going On!

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Fridays Are Fun!

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Chilean Students Show the Way

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Egypt and Wisconsin: Democracy is Alive and Well

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Welcome to Food Matters! Come join the conversation

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We Are all Norwegians Now

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Anti-Anti Immigration: Principles to Make Migration Work

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Re-Centering Science in the Fight Against AIDS

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PirateBox on German TV

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PirateBox

Inspired by pirate radio and the free culture movment, PirateBox is a self-contained mobile communication and file sharing device. PirateBox utilizes Free, Libre and Open Source software (FLOSS) to create mobile wireless file sharing networks where users can anonymously chat and share images, video, audio, documents, and other digital content. PirateBox is designed to be [...]