[IAEP] Annie E. Casey Foundation USA report: Race for Results: Building a Path to Opportunity for All Children (Kids Count project)
Report PR / executive summary:
http://www.aecf.org/Newsroom/NewsReleases/HTML/2014/RaceforResults.aspx
Report page:
http://www.aecf.org/KnowledgeCenter/Publications.aspx?pubguid=%7B5B863B11-62C7-41EC-9F7F-6D12125C4DC2%7D
Report PDF :
http://www.aecf.org/~/media/Pubs/Initiatives/KIDS%20COUNT/R/RaceforResults/RaceforResults.pdf
Methodology PDF:
http://www.aecf.org/KnowledgeCenter/~/media/Pubs/Initiatives/KIDS%20COUNT/R/RaceforResults/RaceforResultsMethodology.pdf
Data tables / maps / graphs:
http://datacenter.kidscount.org/data#USA/2/2702/2704
YouTube briefing:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0AxLWNMpwgY
Unfortunately, this report does not reference childrens' exposure to IT or
digital divide issues (there are 12 metrics). This is also the case for
another recent report, Early Reading Proficiency in the United States:
http://www.aecf.org/KnowledgeCenter/Publications.aspx?pubguid={35DCA3B7-3C03-4992-9320-A5A10A5AD6C9}
However, the reading and math proficiency data are well worth a look.
As is often the case in US studies, Hispanic and white are considered
separate ethnicities.
This is a first-time index which the foundation will update in future to
measure trends.
Sean.
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Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Sugar Digest 2014-04-01
The background contest doesn't specify the deadline for submitting a background, what's the deadline? On Apr 2, 2014 3:36 AM, Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.com wrote: ==Sugar Digest== 1. Daniel Narvaez just released Sugar 0.101.6 (unstable). See [1] for detailed notes on changes since Sugar 0.100. The tarfiles are available at [2-4] and new test builds are being prepared (keep an eye on [5]). We've entered Feature Freeze (which had been extended by three weeks to enable us to land a few more features). Time to chase down bugs. Tip-of-the-hat to Gonzalo Odiard, Martin Abente, and Manuel Quiñones, who put so much effort into getting the last few features over the hump. Also, an extraordinary number of new features were contributed by our Google Code-in students: special kudos to Emil Dudev, Ignacio Rodriguez, and Sam Parkinson. Finally, it was really nice to see so many first-time contributors. 2. Gonzalo has made some videos demonstrating the new features in both Sugar 100 [6] and Sugar 102 [7]. 3. We are reviewing Google Summer of Code applications. We had 35 applicants this year. We'll know in a few weeks how many slots we get from Google. 4. I traveled to Colombia a few weeks ago with Claudia Urrea to visit a wonderful ANSPE project in Chia being run by Aura Mora [8]. Saw some old friends (Sebastian Silva, Laura Vargas, and Sandra Barragán) and made many new friends. The highlights for me were the two Turtle Art workshops: one at the National University in Bogota and the other with the children in Chia. 5. Claudia and Erik Blankinship joined me on a panel discussuion at LibrePlanet 2014 [9]. The panel, which will be available online, was No more mouse: saving elementary education. :The lack of a mouse and the presence of the mouse are having a detrimental impact on global elementary education. The rush to adopt tablets is putting passive tools of consumption into the hands of young learners at a time in their development when making is paramount. The Disneyification of media further erodes the opportunity for personal expression by young learners. In this panel we will characterize these threats and discuss strategies for combating them. === In the community === 6. Sugar Camp #3 - Paris, hosted by Bastien Guerry, will be held from 12-13 April in Carrefour Numérique - Cité des Sciences. For more information, see [10]. 7. Claudia will be hosting a Learning Chat on Wednesday, 2 April, at 10AM EST, 15 GMT. The guest speaker will be Gonzalo. Please join us at irc.freenode.net #sugar-meeting. (These meetings will be held regularly on the first Wednesday of each month.) 8. The Sugar Background Image Contest has begun. See [11] for details. === Tech Talk === 9. I wrote a new activity while I was in Colombia: Word Cloud [12] is a simple activity for generating word clouds from text. 10. Another new activity worth mentioning is Flappy [13] by Alan Aguiar. Enjoy. (I cannot get past the first gate.) === Sugar Labs === 9. Please visit our planet [14]. [1] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/0.102/Notes [2] http://download.sugarlabs.org/sources/sucrose/glucose/sugar/sugar-0.101.6.tar.xz [3] http://download.sugarlabs.org/sources/sucrose/glucose/sugar-artwork/sugar-artwork-0.101.4.tar.xz [4] http://download.sugarlabs.org/sources/sucrose/glucose/sugar-toolkit-gtk3/sugar-toolkit-gtk3-0.101.4.tar.xz [5] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/0.102/Testing [6] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ot_T9impkNw [7] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10ljkueuBU0 [8] http://www.anspe.gov.co/es/sala-de-prensa/noticia/convenio-entre-la-anspe-one-laptop-child-olpc-y-la-alcaldia-de-chia [9] http://libreplanet.org/2014/ [10] http://fr.amiando.com/sugarcamp3.html [11] http://contest.sugarlabs.org [12] http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/addon/4734 [13] http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/addon/4731 [14] http://planet.sugarlabs.org -walter -- Walter Bender Sugar Labs http://www.sugarlabs.org ___ Sugar-devel mailing list sugar-de...@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] Sugar Digest 2014-04-01
The page will be updated soon. The deadline is May 31th Gonzalo On Wed, Apr 2, 2014 at 7:55 AM, Sai Vineet saivinee...@gmail.com wrote: The background contest doesn't specify the deadline for submitting a background, what's the deadline? On Apr 2, 2014 3:36 AM, Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.com wrote: ==Sugar Digest== 1. Daniel Narvaez just released Sugar 0.101.6 (unstable). See [1] for detailed notes on changes since Sugar 0.100. The tarfiles are available at [2-4] and new test builds are being prepared (keep an eye on [5]). We've entered Feature Freeze (which had been extended by three weeks to enable us to land a few more features). Time to chase down bugs. Tip-of-the-hat to Gonzalo Odiard, Martin Abente, and Manuel Quiñones, who put so much effort into getting the last few features over the hump. Also, an extraordinary number of new features were contributed by our Google Code-in students: special kudos to Emil Dudev, Ignacio Rodriguez, and Sam Parkinson. Finally, it was really nice to see so many first-time contributors. 2. Gonzalo has made some videos demonstrating the new features in both Sugar 100 [6] and Sugar 102 [7]. 3. We are reviewing Google Summer of Code applications. We had 35 applicants this year. We'll know in a few weeks how many slots we get from Google. 4. I traveled to Colombia a few weeks ago with Claudia Urrea to visit a wonderful ANSPE project in Chia being run by Aura Mora [8]. Saw some old friends (Sebastian Silva, Laura Vargas, and Sandra Barragán) and made many new friends. The highlights for me were the two Turtle Art workshops: one at the National University in Bogota and the other with the children in Chia. 5. Claudia and Erik Blankinship joined me on a panel discussuion at LibrePlanet 2014 [9]. The panel, which will be available online, was No more mouse: saving elementary education. :The lack of a mouse and the presence of the mouse are having a detrimental impact on global elementary education. The rush to adopt tablets is putting passive tools of consumption into the hands of young learners at a time in their development when making is paramount. The Disneyification of media further erodes the opportunity for personal expression by young learners. In this panel we will characterize these threats and discuss strategies for combating them. === In the community === 6. Sugar Camp #3 - Paris, hosted by Bastien Guerry, will be held from 12-13 April in Carrefour Numérique - Cité des Sciences. For more information, see [10]. 7. Claudia will be hosting a Learning Chat on Wednesday, 2 April, at 10AM EST, 15 GMT. The guest speaker will be Gonzalo. Please join us at irc.freenode.net #sugar-meeting. (These meetings will be held regularly on the first Wednesday of each month.) 8. The Sugar Background Image Contest has begun. See [11] for details. === Tech Talk === 9. I wrote a new activity while I was in Colombia: Word Cloud [12] is a simple activity for generating word clouds from text. 10. Another new activity worth mentioning is Flappy [13] by Alan Aguiar. Enjoy. (I cannot get past the first gate.) === Sugar Labs === 9. Please visit our planet [14]. [1] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/0.102/Notes [2] http://download.sugarlabs.org/sources/sucrose/glucose/sugar/sugar-0.101.6.tar.xz [3] http://download.sugarlabs.org/sources/sucrose/glucose/sugar-artwork/sugar-artwork-0.101.4.tar.xz [4] http://download.sugarlabs.org/sources/sucrose/glucose/sugar-toolkit-gtk3/sugar-toolkit-gtk3-0.101.4.tar.xz [5] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/0.102/Testing [6] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ot_T9impkNw [7] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10ljkueuBU0 [8] http://www.anspe.gov.co/es/sala-de-prensa/noticia/convenio-entre-la-anspe-one-laptop-child-olpc-y-la-alcaldia-de-chia [9] http://libreplanet.org/2014/ [10] http://fr.amiando.com/sugarcamp3.html [11] http://contest.sugarlabs.org [12] http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/addon/4734 [13] http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/addon/4731 [14] http://planet.sugarlabs.org -walter -- Walter Bender Sugar Labs http://www.sugarlabs.org ___ Sugar-devel mailing list sugar-de...@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep -- Gonzalo Odiard SugarLabs - Learning Software for children ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
[IAEP] Sugarlabs invite to participate in Wallpapers Contest
SugarLabs invite to participate in the contest to create wallpapers. Now that Sugar can change the wallpaper, would be great to go with a collection of the best art made by our users. We believe it is a way to stimulate artistic skills ant to engage children in the project creatively. You can create images with any activity, Paint, Record, TurtleArt, and even with other programs. The contest begins today and ends on May 31. We invite you to spread this invitation to as much children as possible The contest site is http://contest.sugarlabs.org/ Thanks! -- Gonzalo Odiard SugarLabs Oversight Board ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
