Entries tagged 'Right To Learn'
Tuesday, June 17th, 2008
350: The World’s Most Important Number
350.org is a new grassroots organizing campaign that launched today, focused on educating the world about the dangers of climate change and launching ordinary citizens worldwide into action.
Why 350? It represents the safe amount of carbon (in parts per million) our atmosphere–and our planet–can sustain.
Right now, we’re hovering at just shy of 400 and beginning to experience some of the beginning effects of global warming. No one’s sure how much more the earth’s fragile ecosystem can take, so it’s time to commit to action.
Need a better explanation? The animated video above makes it pretty easy to understand, without a single spoken word.
If you want to join in, head over to the 350.org site and sign up! While you’re at it, hit up the Alliance for Climate Protection’s We Can Solve It Campaign.
For Jon Warnow, Bill McKibben and the rest of the Step it Up 2007 team–who also advised us on the Right To Learn Campaign–congratulations! Keep up the great work!
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Right to Learn Picks Five Best Stories
As many of you know, I work with an organization called YouthNoise and direct a campaign called Right To Learn. Last fall, Right To Learn set out to ask students throughout California what they thought most needed to change in their schools.
The response was overwhelming and we compiled their tremendous stories in to a report called “Our Schools, Our Stories” and a YouTube video.
Today, we finally were able to announce the five stories voted most compelling by users on the Right To Learn site and an outside panel of judges. I’ve had the great opportunity to get to know these five students over the past couple of weeks and have found them to be tremendously bright and capable.
I encourage you to take a look at their winning stories, and the rest of the stories submitted to Right To Learn, for some inspiration:
- Jean Teodoro, “Free“
- Lauren Grubaugh, “Governor’s cuts will hurt students“
- Eric Seidman, “On Standardizing Education“
- Thomas Bruce, “WHY SHOULD WE CARE?!!!“
- Haiyun Weng, “Psychology“
Tuesday, January 8th, 2008
Students Want Better Teachers, More Funding
As part of my work with YouthNoise, I direct a program called Right To Learn, which works to engage young people in education reform in the state of California.
After hearing from more than 750 young people throughout the state of California, Right To Learn today announced the release of a report summarizing what youth had to say. “Our Schools. Our Stories.” clearly outlines the reasons young people identified that California’s education system so desperately needs to be fixed.
At the top of the list? Students were most concerned about quality of teaching in their schools and the harmful effects of inadequate funding.
They also spoke about schools that don’t care, threats to your safety, unhealthy conditions, inadequate information about graduation and college entrance requirements and poor access to books, computers, college advice and preparation.
In addition to the printed report, we created a video that captures some of the most compelling stories. Take a look at it below:
This report is only the first step. Right To Learn will continue this spring by organizing students statewide to work hold Day of Action rallies on their school campuses this spring.
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