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That is an elicit school if vermont like another teacher from washington i wish i had ethnic studies i feel very strongly that students are not prepared for Higher Education unless theyve gone to ethnic studies it takes a lot through a person of color to enter into an institution to hold our own you need the language to defend yourself and your people you need young folks need to have that voice before you go to college thank you. clapping. thank you. Next speaker, please. Hi theres a saying tha...

The education Nation Student town hall. Education nation is now in its fourth year, and i am thrilled that for the second year in a row, we will be focused on what matters most to the students, the problems they face, and their ideas for how to solve them. Now, joining me on stage and in the audience today are students from across the country, ranging in age from about 13 to 25. And for the next two hours, we will hear from many of them. To help with that task, two of my colleagues are in the ho...

Host how do you define feminism . Guest in the best sense feminism is a philosophy that says that men and women are equal before long, deserve the same rights, the same liberties, the equal dignity, and basically a philosophy of basic fairness. Host in your book, who stole feminism how women have betrayed women, you talk about the new feminism. What is the new feminism . Guest yes, well, the new feminism emerged especially in the 80s and 90s and is a rather hardline version. I became a feminist ...

American Enterprise Institute is the author or coauthor of four nonfiction books including who stole feminism . how women have betrayed women, Mcnerney King and the revised war against boys how misguided policies are harming our young men. Christina hoff summers, how do you define feminism . In the best sense feminism is the philosophy is that says the plant women are equal before the law. They deserve the same rights, the same liberties, equal dignity end basically a philosophy of basic fairnes...

A lot of it sank, but the rest started floating across the pacific, carried by currents and wind. These types of debris items, these large debris items that float, are starting to show up on our coastline on the west coast. Asma is with noaa, the National Oceanic and atmospheric administration. Its a Scientific Agency that works on everything from weather to coastal and Resource Management to fisheries, really taking a look at how we have an impact on the oceans and what we can do to restore the...

Youre talking about the adapt bus actions and contrast that with the montgomery in alabama bus boycott. Yes. You know, you already spoke about the connection between the Africanamerican Community or people of color and disability and there is still a movement, from what i understand, in the Disability Community with people of color to kind of start bringing those voices into the movement. Yes, and the movement has been very, very wide in terms of its public face and the way that its been present...

Consider different from you. And we thought its best to, you know, implement a curriculum that will educate them and actually met with derek wednesday. And i got a lot of great feedback from him. And, you know, at first i even made a mistake. We were so used to in high school to learning that these young people are called special education, and derek, you know, corrected me. I was so happy he did because we want to make sure were making everything correct in our draft once we present it to the b...

That we start thinking about a discussion of some kind of citywide initiative, citywide activities about this. Maybe we think about announcing it as a very special day. Maybe its a very special week. Theres a lot to talk about. I think all ages would be interested in this, as cathy mentioned, a lot of us dont know about this. Even people who are living here in spite of how high profile all the activities were. We were thinking that we can involve many other, you know, activists and artists in th...

Knew there were a secular regime and natural enemies. The irony is that uc what is happening. We go in and focus of so bad that we create something that makes al qaeda look like a tea party. People see that the beach so when you say, well, would you have the same standards and practices, you know, if that is the Gold Standard of, you know, everyone was marred by that. Everyone knew what was happening. That is the Gold Standard of integrity, you can have it. I think thats a great point. [applause...

In the fight of her life right now against that virus. Good evening, im lucy noland. Im he yann page. Were learning much more about that young nurse tonight. Nina familiar was one of 70 establish members at Presbyterian Health hospital who treated Thomas Duncan. He was the first person to be diagnosed with ebola in the u. S. He died last week. To night familiar got a tran fusion of blood plaza from a doctor who survived ebola. Hazmat crews dragged waste from her dallas apartment and removed all ...