Education
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Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
Human Rights Day Observance, 1984-12-10
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Identifier: RC10A1984
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Jimmy Carter Holdings include videos of a question and answer session with Jimmy Carter (topics include corporal punishment in schools, equal opportunity quotas in higher education, energy conservation, disparities between rich and poor nations, Nicaragua human rights, civil disobedience when God's law contradicts government's law, Iran, immigration, third world debt)
Dates:
Event: 1984-12-10
The Fight for Public Education, 2013-10-17
File — Shelf 31, Box: 94, Folder: 53
Identifier: 31.94.53
Abstract
Brian Jones with Hany Khalil, moderated by Juliet Stipeche
Suggested donation $10 Public education in the United States is undergoing a profound transformation, driven by privatization and high-stakes testing. There is considerable concern that these reforms may deepen educational inequalities, including racial inequalities, narrow the scope of teaching and learning, and diminish resources for the neediest students, such art and physical education. Houston Independent School...
Dates:
2013-10-17
The Rededication of the Broken Obelisk, 2006-02-26
File — Shelf 29, Box: 87, Folder: 12
Identifier: 29.87.12
Abstract
The Broken Obelisk Thirty four years ago Annalee Newman wrote “[Dominique and John de Menil] have given the people of Houston a glorious gift -- the Rothko Chapel with its penetrating, self-searching beauty and the Broken Obelisk, standing majestically in its pool of golden shadows.” Both dedicated in 1971, Barnett Newman's sculpture and the Rothko Chapel have become increasingly intertwined over the years.
The “Broken Obelisk” came to Houston as part of a 1967 government...
Dates:
Event: 2006-02-26
Two Americas: Two Educations, 2007-11-15
File — Shelf 29, Box: 88, Folder: 35
Identifier: 29.88.35
Abstract
Presented by Paul Cummins
Dates:
Event: 2007-11-15