Week Two

Tuesday:

1.3.Defining the Problem: Part One--- Children and Families Losing Ground

• Children First for Oregon, Download and read "Report Card 2006," [http://www.cffo.org/]
• Children's Defense Fund, Read "Latest News," [http://www.childrensdefense.org/]
• Oregon Center for Public Policy [http://www.ocpp.org/] Read news releases for "Who's Getting Ahead This Labor Day?" and "Economic Growth Failing to Improve Incomes for Typical Households, Health Coverage, or Poverty," August 29, 2006. Also be able to explain Measures 48 and 41. Who is funding them?
• "America's younger workers losing ground on income," The Christian Science Monitor, February 27, 2006. [http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0227/p01s04-usec.html]
• "Blacks losing ground financially, study finds," USA TODAY, 3/28/2006. [http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2006-03-28-blacks-finance_x.htm]
• Fact and Figures on Wealth and Income from Inequality.org [http://inequality.org/factsfr.html]
• "Life on the Edge: Hunger Stories," documentary produced by Bill Moyers for Now, a PBS series, air date 3-29-2002 [http://www.pbs.org/now/politics/hungerstories.html]
• NOW with Bill Moyers, PBS, March 29, 2002 [http://www.pbs.org/now/transcript/transcript111_full.html]

Thursday:

1.4 Education for what?

"What kind of education do we have? What kind do we need? How do we get from one to the other?"

• Ira Shor, Empowering Education, Chicago: University of Chicago, 1992. See Chapter One "Education is Politics" See class Blackboard documents.
• "Still Separate, Still Unequal: America's Educational Apartheid," by Jonathon Kozol, Harper's Magazine, September 1, 2005. See class Blackboard site documents.
• "Class Dismised," by David Goodman, Mother Jones, May/June 2004; 29, 3. See class Blackboard documents.
• Benjamin Barber, "The Civic Mission of the University," from Higher Education and the Practice of Democratic Politics, Bernard Murchland, ed., Kettering Foundation, 1991. See class Blackboard documents.