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President Obama Expands Social Media Reach
(The Root) — The White House started a Tumblr account last week, stepping up its effort to be accessible to the American public. According to the blog’s first post, it will feature a variety of material, like “the best quotes from President Obama, or video of young scientists visiting the White House for the science…
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Fed Up With Schools, Chicago Kids Boycott State Tests
A group of Chicago students protesting the city’s planned school closings and what they see as overreliance on standardized testing boycotted Wednesday’s Prairie State Achievement Exam and demonstrated outside a school board meeting, Yahoo News reports. “Today we are boycotting the second day of PSAE to show that standardized testing should not decide the future…
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Chicago Teen's Journey to the White House
(The Root) — When President Obama announced the first-ever White House Science Fair back in 2009, he said, “If you win the NCAA championship, you come to the White House. Well, if you’re a young person and you’ve produced the best experiment or design, the best hardware or software, you ought to be recognized for that achievement,…
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No, Neither Asians nor Blacks All Look Alike
(The Root) — “I work in pharmaceutical sales in a territory that doesn’t have much racial diversity. Recently I greeted a young lady who works at one doctor’s office I visited with the wrong name. I’d confused her with the other Asian receptionist. She replied, ‘Oh, so we all look alike?’ or something to that…
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Does a High School's Size Matter?
(Special to The Root) — “Is it better to have my son in a small school with fewer resources and supportive teachers, or a larger school with more resources but administrators who aren’t exactly nurturing?” —Monica Blakely Thank you for your question. It is a good one that many parents ask themselves when thinking about…
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Kermit Gosnell: Crime, Class and Race
Two years ago, a headline writer wrote this over a story by Lynette Holloway for The Root: “Abortion doctor Kermit Gosnell has been charged with eight counts of murder. Both sides of the abortion debate are having a field day with this case. But what happens to poor women of color facing unwanted pregnancies?” Holloway…
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Easier Access to Plan B: Bad for Black Girls?
(The Root) — If Susannah Baruch were in charge of the nation’s biggest chain pharmacy stores, she’d issue orders today. They would read: Make room on store shelves, somewhere between the pregnancy tests and the condoms, for another form of effective, over-the-counter birth control. “That’s exactly where emergency contraception should be, between the condoms and the…
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TED Fellow Alum Launches New Startup 'MetaLayer'
Jonathan Gosier, a TED senior fellow alum, founded MetaLayer with business partner Matthew Griffiths in 2011 to help non-technical users perform data-driven research such as trend spotting in big data sets, protective analytics, and visualization using drag and drop data science technology. As an open-source product, the Philadelphia-based company works seamlessly with other data management…