Related to the earlier article about Sweden, essentially accusing US charter schools like KIPP of "teaching to the test" at the expense of more substantive learning.
"With few exceptions, the curriculum was characterized by a narrow interpretation of state standards at the expense of all other material. Students rarely learned local history or current events. Instead, science and social studies were relegated to ancillary classes in the elementary school and reduced to the accumulation of vocabulary and lists of facts at the middle school. Teachers stopped introducing new material a month prior to state assessments in order to begin review." Jacobin
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"New research published in the Lancet found decriminalising sex work would have the greatest effect on the course of the HIV epidemic of all the interventions modelled, averting between a third and 46% of HIV infections among sex workers and their clients in the next 10 years." Business Day
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"With few exceptions, the curriculum was characterized by a narrow interpretation of state standards at the expense of all other material. Students rarely learned local history or current events. Instead, science and social studies were relegated to ancillary classes in the elementary school and reduced to the accumulation of vocabulary and lists of facts at the middle school. Teachers stopped introducing new material a month prior to state assessments in order to begin review." Jacobin
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"New research published in the Lancet found decriminalising sex work would have the greatest effect on the course of the HIV epidemic of all the interventions modelled, averting between a third and 46% of HIV infections among sex workers and their clients in the next 10 years." Business Day
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A good 101 about public sexual harassment. Robot Hugs
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Some shocking statistics about gender-based violence in Africa (and elsewhere)
"A 2013 report developed by the World Health Organization, the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and the South African Medical Research Council, presents further data on violence by an intimate partner. In terms of a lifetime prevalence of physical and/or sexual violence among women in a relationship, sub-Saharan Africa was third with 36.6% of women abused, just behind South East Asia with 37.7% and the Eastern Meditteranean region with 37% - the Eastern Meditteranean includes Africa’s northern countries." M&G Africa
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"big companies are good at recruiting the best workers from all demographic cohorts and that's part of the reason they pay more. But a lot of the wage increases remain. The exact same worker can earn an approximately 10 percent raise (11 percent for high school graduates, 9 percent for those with at least some college) by moving from a small company to a large one.
Moving from a small store to a big store has an even bigger effect — 19 percent for high school graduates and 28 percent for those with some college." Vox
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A really great resource for sex and relationship education, aimed at high school level. UCT
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A kind of obvious point, but worth making - emotional intelligence is also a prerequisite for effective emotional manipulation.
"Recognizing the power of emotions, another one of the most influential leaders of the 20th century spent years studying the emotional effects of his body language. Practicing his hand gestures and analyzing images of his movements allowed him to become “an absolutely spellbinding public speaker,” says the historian Roger Moorhouse—“it was something he worked very hard on.” His name was Adolf Hitler." Atlantic
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