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Litchfield Elementary School District works to curb school bullying

February 23, 2012
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A group of teens in the Litchfield Elementary School District is crusading to stop bullying in their schools. The district serves Avondale, Goodyear and Litchfield communities and has tackled the bullying issue since last year, when a former student criticized the district for failing to protect him when he was targeted for being gay....

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Welcome to the new phenomena of tweens using youtube to ask random strangers …

February 23, 2012
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Welcome to the new phenomena of tweens using youtube to ask random strangers …

In a disparaging sign of the times, tweens, children aged between 11 and 13 are taken to the internet via youtube to find out once and for all if they are pretty or ugly? The videos made predominantly by females (does that surprise anyone given the context of society’s valuation of women?) seek to...

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"This Means War"…on the audience’s patience

February 23, 2012
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This Means War (2012) Directed by McG Starring Reese Witherspoon, Chris Pine, Tom Hardy “Oh my God – I’m Yoko!” Reese Witherspoon’s character, Lauren, exclaims as she realizes she has come between two best friends in this rolling cheeseball of a chick flick that happens to involve spies. February must be the month for...

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Oscar Snubs: Tilda Swinton, Project Nim, and Parenting Worst-Case Scenarios

February 22, 2012
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Seen and Unseen

February 22, 2012
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Last semester, when I had to write an educational curriculum for an elementary school tutoring program, I picked the topic of color. I bought a prism for the occasion to show the kids that rainbow-wedge Dark-Side-of-the-Moon effect—how a single, pure beam of white light is dispersed into a wide rainbow of color when shown...

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