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Girls Learn International is Building Global Partnerships

13 February 2012

Castilleja’s GLI Chapter is getting off the ground, and we are thinking about our various partner schools. GLI is designed to teach students about human rights concerns around the world, and it also supports chapters as they support girls learning around the world. Their latest partnership in Tanzania with Project Rhotia was facilitated by eduWeavers.org, [...]

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Proposition 8 Overturned

08 February 2012

The United States 9th Circuit Court of appeals ruled Proposition 8, the California ballot proposition that defined marriage as a union of a man and a woman, was overturned today, although the stay continuing the ban on gay marriage remains. If the Supreme Court upholds the 9th Court’s ruling, California will become the 7th state [...]

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Susan G Komen

06 February 2012

With all of the recent press about the Susan G. Komen Foundation’s decision to stop funding Planned Parenthood and subsequent reversal of the decision, here are two opinion articles aboutthe decision you should read. A Painful Betrayal–New York Times Editorial Komen, Catholics and the cost of conscience– Kathleen Park, Washington Post Opinion Writer

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Gender quotas lead to higher female achievement.

06 February 2012

Harvard professor Rohini Pandi has researched the impact of reserving at least one spot on village councils in India for women. In villages where at least one woman had to serve on village councils, girls in the village were more likely to have high goals, achieve more in school, and score higher on tests. [...]

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Romney wins in Florida

02 February 2012

Romney won the Republican primary in Florida yesterday with 46% of the vote. Runner-up Newt Gingrich receive 32% of the votes, Santorum 13%. and Romney 7%. Click this link to see a breakdown of the votes by county and demographic from the Miami Herald.

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Twitter

30 January 2012

Twitter announced on January 26th that it would reactively withhold tweets from specific countries while keeping them available for users in other countries. In a post on its blog, Twitter said there were some countries it would not work with if their views of freedom of expression are too different from the company’s values, but said [...]

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Privacy and the Courts

30 January 2012

The Supreme court recently voted 9-0 in United States v. Jones that GPS surveillance of cars violates the 4th Amendment to the Constitution which outlaws unreasonable search and seizure. NYU law professor Barry Friedman says the wording of the decision and previous decisions are leading to a narrower definition of privacy and a country where [...]

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Strides for Life Crab Feed

27 January 2012

Strides for Life is having their annual Crab Feed on Saturday, March 3rd at Serra HS and is looking for High School volunteers to fill the following spots: Time Shift 1: 10 AM – 12 PM Job: Setup tables, chairs, decorations Dress: Any Time Shift 2: 4 PM – 10 PM Job: Sell tickets, Bus Tables, Clean-up [...]

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Drones and war

26 January 2012

When American citizens no longer have to go fight to attack other countries and drones, unmanned (robotic) aerial attack systems, can be used without any declaration of war, are the attacks acceptable? With less the 0.5% of Americans over 18 on active duty, a smaller portion of adults are serving in the military than in [...]

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