Category Archives: Media Link

Sexual Violence on Campus

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Since President Obama established the White House Task Force to Protect Students from Sexual Assault several news stories have been published about issues of rape on college campuses.  One of the most recent was published in the Washington Post on June 29.  Just the day before that, NPR had a story about Tackling Sexual Assault On Campus with Comedy, featuring a recent segment of the Daily Show with Jon Stewart.

So what is OSU doing to prevent and respond to sexual assault?  Check out http://oregonstate.edu/sexualassault/.  There’s a link there to Get Involved in solutions.

Brown v. Board Anniversary

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With the 60th anniversary of the Supreme Court’s Brown v. Board of Education ruling this month, several informative stories have come up out about the re-segregation of American schools.

Secretary Duncan wrote a U.S. Department of Education blog: Progress and Challenges 60 Years After Brown v. Board.  I found it particularly interesting in juxtaposition to their March Civil Rights Data Snapshot showing racial bias in school discipline.  The very first statistic of that snapshot is a startling one: “Black children represent 18% of preschool enrollment, but 48% of preschool children receiving more than one out-of-school suspension.”  [Oregon Public Broadcasting (OPB) aired a short piece about Oregon suspension rates following the national trend.]

The latest NEA Today magazine’s cover article, Still Separate, Still Unequal?, also includes several video clips online that are worth a look.

Perhaps the most provocative story is Alexandra Pelosi and Dorian Warren’s discussion of how public schools have become re-segregated since the 1980s in their The Re-Segregation of America’s Schools online video, taken from a Now with Alex Wagner segment on MSNBC.

American Promise

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We are making progress in bringing American Promise‘s filmmakers to campus for a screening.  The tentative date is April 15.  Pencil in the date, and check back here for more information.

The film follows two middle-class African-American boys for 13 years, as they make their way through a prestigious private school.  Joe Brewster and Michèle Stephenson are the filmmakers and parents of one of the boys.  It has won several awards and will be showing on PBS’s POV program on February 3 (11 PM PST on OPB).  Here is the trailer:

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knFReWtLkgc]

http://www.americanpromise.org/#/trailer

The Classroom Closet

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Teaching Tolerance posted an anonymous blog entry from a gay elementary school teacher:  The Classroom Closet .  He is responding to a district’s screening of the Teaching Tolerance movie Bullied.  (We do have a copy in the College of Education if you want to see it.)  The blog entry is a moving read with several personal stories in the comments from readers.  I highly recommend taking a look at this and following some of the “You might also like” links on their side menu, especially in light of our upcoming panel discussion event.

Do you have your calendars marked yet?  We’ll be posting more information soon, but the date is now set:  Tuesday, January 21, 2014 at 5 PM on the 4th floor of Furman Hall.  We are hosting this panel discussion in partnership with OSU’s Pride Center.  Our goal is to discuss gender and sexual identity issues in education from both a student and teacher perspective.  This is part of our professional development efforts, and we hope everyone leaves with some new resources/ideas for continued professional development.