The end? Well, not exactly. Scratch that - not at all. I thought I was going to be writing about the amazing time I had in Atlanta, Georgia the at the NYLC National Service-Learning Conference. I mean, how pumped up can a person in my line or work feel surrounded by thousands of others who are as excited or even more crazy about service-learning? But there was something in the air the whole time we were celebrating.

Below is a link to an op-ed piece by Diane Ravitch, a well known educational historian and former assistant secretary of education under President Ronald Reagan, the misperception of whose legacy has made him a darling of the right (see here).

Recently the College of Education Inclusion Committee hosted an event centered on the movie Bullied.  This movie, available for free to educators here, was produced by the Southern Poverty Law Center.

A new report created by the Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD), an organization created by 30 countries including the U.S. that focuses on providing data for governments, indicates that the U.S. has fallen behind most other industrialized countries in social mobility.

It is commonly known that some professions - like those in STEM (science, technology, engineering, mathematics) fields - have traditionally been typecast as 'masculine,' with women often being socialized away from these areas in our patriarchic, male-dominated society. Likewise, some careers - like nursing and K-12 education - have been viewed as traditonally 'female' work.

As an educational technologist whose specific area of interest lies in the attitudes and experiences of minority learners with educational and communications technologies (ECT), the concept of the "Digital Divide" - with all of its dimensions: the haves and the have-nots, the knowers and the know-nots, the doers and the do-nots (Tapscott, 2000) - has drawn much of my scholarly and professional attention over the years.