You may or may not know that I’m one of two contributing editors for Research, Academia, and Education at BlogHer. Recently I posted two articles that may be of interest to U.S. voters:
McCain’s education plan: interesting ideas and tired rhetoric
and
Obama’s education plan: visionary or delusional?
I favor the Obama plan. Click through to each [...]

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Check out my latest post at Museum Blogging for tips on visiting museums with girls (and boys as well!).

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There’s been a lot of hubbub in the news lately–thanks to the movie based on the Bratz dolls–about the differences between Barbie and Bratz, and how the Bratz dolls are finally unsettling Barbie from her lofty perch in the toy world. (The Mirror reports that Bratz dolls are outselling Barbie 2 to 1.)
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Clem Richardson of the New York Daily News shares the story of a program in Harlem that teaches kids to make their own multicultural dolls. About toymaker Kara Lesondak, Richardson writes,
[S]he taught the mostly African-American and Hispanic students to make and market dolls that looked like them.”Kara created a very unique doll-making program [...]

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UNICEF is running a series of German-language blackface ads:

Click the link above for a gallery of all the ads.
Of the ads, Black Woman in Europe writes,
Besides claiming that every single person in “Africa” isn’t educated, and doing so in an extremely patronising way, it is also disturbing that this organisation thinks blackfacing kids with [...]

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