Gettysburg Address: On Nov. 19, 1863

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Gettysburg Address

Lincoln rose, adjusted his spectacles, and began: "Four score and seven years ago." The first two words rhyme, setting in motion a symphony of sounds. The biblical ring of his opening was rooted in lines from Psalm 90. Lincoln never mentioned the Bible, but the whole of his speech was suffused with both biblical content and cadence.

He first placed the dedication of the battlefield in the larger context of American history. In appealing to "our fathers," Lincoln invoked a common heritage. The trajectory of that sentence underscored the American ideal that "all men are created equal." Lincoln at Gettysburg asserted that the meaning of the Civil War was about both liberty and union.

Editorial: Arne Duncan speaks the truth about Common Core

Arne Duncan didn't say it correctly, but what he said was correct, and nowhere is it truer than on Long Island.

Last Friday, addressing state school superintendents, the U.S. secretary of education discussed the outcry against the new Common Core standards. "It's fascinating to me that some of the pushback is coming from, sort of, white suburban moms who -- all of a sudden -- their child isn't as brilliant as they thought they were and their school isn't quite as good as they thought they were, and that's pretty scary," he said. "You've bet your house and where you live and everything on 'My child's going to be prepared.' That can be a punch in the gut."

Duncan's gender, racial and geographic specificity -- as if dads or black suburban moms or white moms in cities don't exist or share these feelings, or the feelings of white suburban moms aren't valid -- was thoughtless and wrongheaded. Imagine the firestorm if he'd marginalized pushback against an education initiative by arguing it was only coming from "black inner-city moms." But at the core, he made a valid point, one he stated more clearly on Monday in an attempt to clarify his remarks.

In New York, pass rates on standardized tests dropped by more than a quarter last year, after the state overhauled them to be in line with the new Common Core standards. That means nearly 70 percent of New York students failed the reading and math standardized tests.

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College- and Career-Ready Standards

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Social Networking Use - Pew Research Center

As of May 2013, 72% of online adults use social networking sites. Young adults are the most likely to say they use social media sites, while women and urban dwellers are more likely than men or rural users to be on the sites. Women, African-Americans, and Latinos show high interest in sites like Twitter, Instagram and Pinterest. Read more

The Demographics of Social Media Users — 2012

Reference

Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project

    

Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project

Tablet and E-reader Ownership Update  Oct 18, 2013

OVERVIEW

The number of Americans ages 16 and older who own tablet computers has grown to 35%, and the share who have e-reading devices like Kindles and Nooks has grown to 24%. Overall, the number of people who have a tablet or an e-book reader among those 16 and older now stands at 43%.

Five Video Games Your Middle Schooler Should Be Playing (Plus a Bonus One)

New Tech City: Five Video Games Your Middle Schooler Should Be Playing (Plus a Bonus One) - WNYC http://www.wnyc.org/story/five-video-games-your-middle-schooler-should-be-playing/

Ed Note: To go with our New Tech City episode on games that help your brain, we asked gaming expert Liza Stark at the Institute of Play to give a few suggestions about educational learning games for kids. if you don't know them, the folks at Institute of Play design games and game-like experiences to be used in schools. They recently published the PLAY List for the World Innovation Summit for Education. Working her fellow expertsh, here's her list.

Made With Play: Game-Based Learning Resources
Institute of Play; visit their website for many more resources around game-based learning for both educators andparents, including a comprehensive games and learning reading list (PDF).

PLAY Library

NYCHA Releases Reports Demonstrating Public Housing’s Significant Economic Impact

New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) Chairman John Rhea today presented findings from two economic impact studies to a Ford Foundation audience.  The first report demonstrates that NYCHA is an economic engine that sustains 30,000 jobs in New York City and State and contributes $6 billion annually through all of its spending activities to the local economies

WiFi on Wheels Rolls Into Public Housing

NYCHA’s Community Centers

In areas of the city where New Yorkers don't have easy access to broadband, it can be difficult to find a job – or even a build a resume to get started. The New York City Housing Authority is trying to help some of its residents by rolling in WiFi on wheels.

Digital Vans 

Bernard Williams and Joshua Stevenson run one of NYCHA's digital vans, which are fitted with computers with WiFi as well as a printer/scanner. The vans alserves as mobile community center, and the two men are its directors. They let visitors know about job and education opportunities and help them with their resumes

Need help using a computer or getting online? Digital Vans– essentially computer labs on wheels are available for NYCHA residents and community members to link to the Internet, search for job opportunities, touch-up your resume and much more.Digital Vans

Monday – Friday, 10 am – 4 pm

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