On Thursday, October 18th, about 60 teachers, administrators, parents, government officials, and youth gathered at Reagan High School in Austin, TX for a series of three forums on “Too Many Children Left Behind: Closing the Achievement Gap in Central Texas.” The diverse group is gathering on behalf of a diverse Austin Independent School District. Other [...]
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Posted in Citizen Journalism, Commentary, Democracy's Challenge, Evaluation, Get Involved, Idea Exchange, LBJ Library, PBS All-American Presidential Forums, Texas Forums Events, deliberate, social networking on June 29, 2007 | No Comments »
It would be interesting if they said something we hadn’t heard. Barack makes a joke about “No Child Left Behind” and talks about the money left behind but doesn’t get a big response here. Bonnie observes that most of the people here are taking it all blandly and no one is getting up [...]
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Posted in Citizen Journalism, Commentary, Democracy's Challenge, Dialogue and Deliberation Models, Facing Racism, Get Involved, Guest Bloggers, LBJ Library, PBS All-American Presidential Forums, Texas Forums Events, deliberate on June 29, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Tavis’s show at PBS is now begining and it’s talking about the “Covenant with Black America.” The G21 team here, Allaina and I are Blogging on the event. It turns our that Yours Unruly is a celeb because I’m the only working journalist at the event. I was interviewed by a [...]
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Posted in Citizen Journalism, Civic Entrepreneurship, Commentary, Democracy's Challenge, Dialogue and Deliberation Models, Facing Racism, Idea Exchange, LBJ Library, PBS All-American Presidential Forums, Texas Forums Events, deliberate on June 29, 2007 | No Comments »
28 June 2007: This evening I’m reporting from the LBJ Library at the University of Texas (UT) on Tavis Smiley’s Public Broadcasting System (PBS) forum with the candidates for the Democratic Party nomination for President of the United States. Like many other Bloggers here tonight, I’m suppose to be an ear to what our community [...]
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Steve Long (Long’s Graphics in Dayton, OH) provided me with the graphics he created for the Kettering Foundation framing, “Too Many Children Left Behind“. As noted in an earlier posting, Texas Forums will be assisting with the community engagement initiative to close the achievement gap in Central Texas. Partners on this project thus far include [...]
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I’ve discovered a cool tool for embedding comments and links that allow you to jump to a particular place in a podcast. This is one way to create a discussion about pieces in a podcast or to quickly find specific references within a podcast.
If I’ve done this right, this link will take you to a [...]
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Posted in Forums, NIF on February 5, 2007 | 1 Comment »
The following is a summary of the new National Issues Forums discusion guide on Energy posted in the Kettering Foundation’s Friday Letter from Home produced by KF resident journalist, Bob Daley. Texas Forums will have a limited number of these issue books available for free to organizers of these forums. You MUST use a trained [...]
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Study Circles Resource Center (SCRC) has been developing outstanding materials for study circles on issues like racism, poverty, education, immigration and police-community relations for fifteen years. Study circles can help people from a variety of racial, ethnic and cultural backgrounds examine the gaps among racial and ethnic groups where they live, explore approaches to creating [...]
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In 2006, Time named “You” the person of the year. The web, “a tool for bringing together the small contributions of million of people and making them matter” made it possible for us to collaborate and build community in new, dynamic and scalable ways.
Power is no longer held by the few. it is possible [...]
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Posted in Forums on January 26, 2007 | 4 Comments »
Two nights ago, my parents received the top award given to citizens of the Village of Salado by the Salado Chamber of Commerce - citizens of the year. We’re still waiting to see when and if mom will ever get some sleep. Winning the raffle for the grand prize prize did not help.
I’m very proud [...]
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