by David Safier
I keep on meaning to write about these, and other, articles that have come my way, but something always seems to come up. So here is a list of interesting articles, most of them positive, that you can read yourself if you’re interested.
(Note: I find myself complaining on this blog most of the time, talking about what’s wrong with education. Yet every day, thousands of gifted teachers, and sometimes less gifted but very hard working teachers, are doing wonderful things with their students all around the Tucson area, changing lives for the better one day, and one student, at a time. Some day I should write about the implied “Goodness of your heart” clause all good teachers add to their contracts, which says they will spend their own money, work into the night and on weekends and go home exhausted at the end of the school day so their students, who they think of as “my children,” will benefit from the time they spend in school.)
- The Arizona Justice Project, a nonprofit organization dedicated to exonerating those wrongfully convicted and correcting other manifest injustices, is moving to ASU’s Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law. This is one of those wonderful projects that have freed innocent people from prison and have taught law students and lawyers the true meaning of their profession — to further justice.
- Northern Arizona’s Applied Research and Development building received a platinum certification in the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design program, That’s the highest rating a building can get.
- An op ed in the Star argues that the best time to implement a $1.4 billion building plan for our 3 state universities is right now, when we can benefit from the economic stimulus to the building industry and other sectors of our economy. This is using government funds to benefit us right now, and for decades to come.
- The $1.4 billion building plan has been backed by more than two dozen groups and individuals, from Phoenix Mayor Phil Gordon to the Flagstaff Forty, a group of business leaders. (Doesn’t sound like your usual ragtag assortment of Tax-And-Spend-Liberal hippies, does it?)
- “The M.F.A. is the new M.B.A.”, claims a New York Times article. The argument is, we need innovators as much as we need button-down business people, and a background in the fine arts, with the right-brain thinking it encourages, will help us grow the all-important creative sector of our economy by allowing us to create new ways of approaching old problems and coming up with possibly revolutionary solutions.
- And if you’re looking for some art education activities, the city of Tempe Cultural Division announced today the addition of two new, free online art education programs for teachers and students.
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