October 28, 2019
by Judith Kilborn
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Check out this article from the St. Cloud Times. It’s the first of a series of four articles, and it’s available in our D2L course via this link: https://stcloudstate.learn.minnstate.edu/d2l/le/content/4584580/viewContent/40546601/View
October 16, 2019
by Judith Kilborn
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Here’s a link to an article responding to Webster’s addition of they as a gender-neutral pronoun that I thought you might find useful. https://www.adl.org/education/resources/tools-and-strategies/gender-neutral-pronouns-make-headlines And here’s the article lead: Pronouns matter. There has been a cascade of recent news about … Continue reading
October 15, 2019
by Judith Kilborn
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Neil Gaiman came up with the name of one of his characters, Coraline, by mistake, when he mistyped 'Caroline'. He preferred ‘Coraline’ and kept it. — Literary Interest (@InterestingLit) October 15, 2019
October 14, 2019
by Judith Kilborn
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Camel Case means that #YouCapitalizeEachWord in a hashtag. Do this for clarity, and to help the blind and visually impaired. https://t.co/wGxv20Vw6Q — George Takei (@GeorgeTakei) October 10, 2019
October 13, 2019
by Judith Kilborn
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This St. Cloud Times article describes an event sponsored yesterday by Pathways 4 Youth to raise awareness of youth homelessness in St. Cloud and the services available to these youth through the organization. Here’s the lead of the article, which … Continue reading
October 13, 2019
by Judith Kilborn
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A young girl prays at her bedside at a boarding school. A new book by an Ojibwe author tells the stories life for American Indian children in boarding schools designed to purge their language and culture. Here’s the lead for … Continue reading
October 12, 2019
by Judith Kilborn
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View this post on Instagram Each of us has the right to say #IBelong. (My grandfather came to England before WW1 but was stateless, all his life.) I’m proud to support UNHCR as they continue to fight for … Continue reading
October 12, 2019
by Judith Kilborn
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In this Washington Post podcast, “Laura Meckler goes back to her hometown of Shaker Heights, Ohio, to try to understand why integration efforts in schools there are still not closing the achievement gap” (https://www.washingtonpost.com/podcasts/post-reports/why-a-suburbs-integrated-schools-are-still-failing-black-students/).
October 12, 2019
by Judith Kilborn
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According to the Washington Post (http://(https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2019/10/11/latina-novelist-spoke-about-white-privilege-students-burned-her-book-response/), here’s how students in Georgia responded to a book reading of Make Your Home among Strangers: A Latina novelist spoke about white privilege. Students burned her book in response. In response to Jennine Capó … Continue reading
October 12, 2019
by Judith Kilborn
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View this post on Instagram @gretathunberg 😊🌎✊❤️ A post shared by @climatebriefings (@climatebriefings) on Oct 11, 2019 at 7:10pm PDT