- NYTimes.com. A job that has not been all that alluring to college graduates is in resurgence, according to leading community organizers and educators. Once thought of as a destination for lefty radicals committed to living lives of low pay, frustration and bitter burnout, community organizing is now seen by many young people an exciting career.

via A Career in Community Organizing Becomes an Enviable Option – NYTimes.com.

 On Friday, Good Morning America ran an inaccurate and unbalanced story, painting public pre-kindergarten as a “scam” and a “waste of money.” 

The three-minute segment did not have a single word about the four decades of research proving that quality pre-k benefits all children or that it returns $2 or more for every dollar we invest.

Add your name to the petition to GMA producers and help make sure our children don’t pay the price for news stories that omit the facts about pre-k!

Take Action: Stand up to media attacks on pre-k

The revision and update of the resource “Graduate Programs in Peace Psychology” is now available on the PsySR Web site.  This resource would be useful for any students interested in pursuing graduate work in Peace Psychology.

Lawmakers in Georgia and Florida are beginning to use ‘budget cuts’ as an excuse for targeting programs and courses on sexuality, queer and women’s studies. Georgia State University is being forced to testify TODAY in front of the state senate about ‘questionable’ faculty research and course offerings on sexuality. At Florida Atlantic University, the administration is trying to suspend the Women’s Studies program.

Please help by signing the petition below, and forwarding this to anyone else who may be interested in signing on. We have the support of several hundred academics so far, we need more.

McCarthyism is alive and well in these states. Your state could be next.

http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/savesexualitystudiesnow

The Critical Educator Network is entered into a contest with a website called ideablob.com , an organization that gives money to non-profits. Once a month, the organizations that garners the most votes from people over the Internet wins $10,000 in startup funds. We won our round of the competition with many of your votes and now we are headed to the finals to see who is going to win the $10,000. Voting starts Friday, August 22nd and ends Sunday, August 31st. There is a problem with the vote setup, so please read the PS below to make sure you vote for us!

We also NEED more than just your vote! If ALL of you get 5 people you know to vote, then we will win this for sure. Please please please ask others.

If you have already voted for us, YOU DO NOT NEED TO RE-REGISTER, JUST VOTE AGAIN. You can just go HERE>>

If you are a new voter, please follow these steps:
1.)Go to www.ideablob.com/signup
2.)Click on the register button at the top of the page and follow the instructions.
3.)After you have registered activate your account by following the instructions given in the confirmation e-mail you will receive.
4.)Once you have activated your account you will be free to search for our idea
5.)Enter “Critical Educator Network” into the search box at the top right of the page.
6.)Click on our name which will appear in red.
7.)Click on the green VOTE button to vote for our idea.

Recent research has highlighted the important role of teachers in fostering student achievement. However, the United States lags significantly behind other countries in teacher compensation, which adversely impacts efforts to recruit high-quality teachers. In South Korea and Germany, starting salaries for teachers are about 141% of per capita GDP, while the figure for the United States is only 81%. In fact, all countries in this sample pay their teachers a significantly higher relative wage as a starting salary compared to the United States. Compared to other countries, U.S. flunks in teacher pay