Recent Events in Education News:

Since we discussed a lot of the portraits done by Riva in Kristin’s writing seminar, I have been keeping an eye on this exhibition since last semester. I stopped by for a little while a couple times last semester to try to find a peace of mind in between all the academic pressure. But last Tuesday was the first time I actually looked into all the portraits carefully and examined the texts next to the portraits.

I first saw Riva Lehrer's work in the spring of 2016. I was reading Eli Clare's Exile and Pride, and to supplement the ideas in the book, we also studied Riva's portrait of Eli. I then spent a lot of time looking at the portrait, as I had to put up dozens of posters for Eli Clare's talk at Swarthmore that I organized. Needless to say, seeing the portrait of Eli, the portrait, was truly amazing. Studying a piece of art from a laptop screen or projected onto the wall is nothing like seeing it inches away from you. I loved how we were able to tie artwork into Disability Studies. Artwork that was of disabled people, by a disabled person. 

What does this suggest about curriculum--who creates and implements it?  the role of teachers here?

http://www.philly.com/philly/education/20170122_Phila__teachers_plan_Black_Lives_Matter_week_-_not_all_are_happy.html?photo_3

Check out these Black Lives Matter education events for the coming week, including a showing of 13th:

http://thenotebook.org/articles/2017/01/19/black-lives-matter-week-of-action-campaign-comes-to-philly-schools

Check out these events for the coming week:

http://thenotebook.org/articles/2017/01/19/black-lives-matter-week-of-action-campaign-comes-to-philly-schools

Here's the article about lead poisoning that Alisha mentioned in class on Thurs.:

http://www.philly.com/philly/news/Philadelphia_ignores_thousands_of_kids_poisoned_by_lead_paint.html