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Sheryl Gay Stolberg is a White House correspondent for the New York Times. From 2002 to 2006 she was a congressional correspondent for the Times. She has been a reporter for the Los Angeles Times, where she was part of two Pulitzer Prize-winning teams. She is a graduate of the University of Virginia.
Kathie Olsen is deputy director and chief operating officer of the National Science Foundation and former deputy director for science of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. Previously she was chief scientist at NASA. She spoke at the Miller Center for Public Affairs at the University of Virginia about the need to create a national science policy to guide the country through the next hundred years.
“Today the global economy is tightly linked to science, mathematics and engineering,” Olsen says. “Wise federal spending on science and technology is good economic policy.”
Jordan Lorence of the Alliance Defense Fund and UVA law professor Robert Neil discussed the “Bong Hits 4 Jesus” case recently heard by the Supreme Court, during an event sponsored by the Federalist Society April 3. Lorence is senior counsel for the Alliance Defense Fund and has litigated First Amendment cases since 1984 in courts across the United States. Robert O’Neil, an authority on the First Amendment, is the director of the Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of Free Expression and a law professor and former president of the University of Virginia.
After the United States acquired Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines during the Spanish-American War in 1898, Americans weren’t sure whether they wanted constitutional rights to “follow the flag.” A series of five Supreme Court rulings from 1901 to 1922, known as the Insular Cases, reflected this ambiguity, as a combination of racist and populist reasoning in the decisions ensured Puerto Rico – relationship with the United States would remain unclear to this day, explained panelists at the Latin American Law Organization spring colloquium March 28.
“The Insular Cases display some of the most notable examples in the history of the Supreme Court in which its decisions interpreting the Constitution evidence an unabashed reflection of contemporaneous politics,”kj said Judge Juan Torruella of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit. Torruella is the first Puerto Rican appointed to a federal appellate court. “The Insular Cases in effect translated the political dispute about the acquisition of foreign territories into the vocabulary of the Constitution, with the Supreme Court eventually echoing the popular sentiment of the day.”
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Originalism is a highly effective political strategy, rather than simply a jurisprudential philosophy of adhering to the exact text
of the Constitution and the original intent of the framers, said Robert Post at the biennial McCorkle Lecture March 29.
Post, the David Boies Professor of Law at Yale Law School, explained to an audience in Caplin Pavilion that originalism is effective because it mobilizes conservative organizations to pressure the president to appoint judges who claim originalism as a philosophy for judicial interpretation, or who say they will be faithful to the original meaning of the Constitution.
“Originalism becomes a means of arousing voters on the right who then come out and vote for a president who appoint the right sort of justices who will create the right sort of law,”kj Post said.
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In this field report, Mark chats with Instructional Technology Resource Teacher, Pattie Bowen, about a recent project she implemented in a fifth grade class.
| Violence, political criticism, budget cuts, impeachment, and legislation designed to constrain the judiciary are some of the threats that have existed for judges since the formation of the United States. Recently, several leaders in the legal community have voiced concerns that judicial independence is in jeopardy because these threats could influence judges to make biased decisions. The chorus, led in part by former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, is pointing out problems that are non-issues, suggested Judge William H. Pryor Jr. of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit at the Ola B. Smith Lecture March 19. Thanks to Americans recognition of the importance of an independent judiciary, now and throughout history, judicial independence is safe, he said. Pryor’s talk was sponsored by the Student Legal Forum and the Virginia Law Review. |  |
In this show, Michael and Steve introduce the first 5 of 10 tools that are easy to use and which yield some phenomenal results:
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Edublogs was designed with educators and students in mind and is rapidly becoming the free blog hosting service of choice. In this Field Report, Michael presents a screencast showing you how to sign up and start blogging with an “edublog.”
Click on the image to view/download the original QuckTime screencast – 21.9 MB.
Download mp4 – 9.2 MB.
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Susan Carkeek is the new director of human resources at the University of Virginia. She had her first radio interview in Charlottesville on WINA’s Charlottesville–Right Now with Coy Barefoot. Carkeek talks about the challenges of managing 14,000 salaried employees across the academic and medical departments.
“It’s like a city within a city,” Carkeek says. “We have everything from police officers, food service, grounds, computer technicians, every kind of occupation that you can imagine.”
Meg McEvoy interviewed Carkeek in December for C-Ville Weekly.
When two students perform the same academic task, the patterns of activity in their brains are as unique as their fingerprints.
– CAST, 2002
One way to approach technology integration is to begin with an educational problem and explore how different tools might contribute to a solution. No greater challenge today facing classroom teachers than the increasing diversity of learners in the classroom. Neuroscience increasingly illuminates how students differ in their learning styles and preferences at the neurological level – and this difference at the individual level is a daunting hurtle to face.
In this show, the GenTech boys consider the three main principles of Universal Design for Learning (UDL), and how technology might address them.
Links:
Center for Applied Special Technology (CAST)
Teaching Every Student in the Digital Age (online book)
Teaching Every Student (links to resources)
The Machine is Us/ing Us – video
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The green building movement has taken Central Virginia by storm, perhaps in part because of the local presence of former U.Va Architecture Dean William McDonough. On the February 18th edition of WNRN’s Sunday Morning Wake-Up Call, Rick Moore explores the environmental architecture with a panel of guests and why you should consider going green for your next home.
Bob Pineo is local architect and developer. Betsy Roettger, is professor of architecture at the University of Virginia. Deb Brown is the account manager for Amvic Building Systems, which makes something called insulated concrete forms. Mark Greenfield is a subcontractor who specializes in using ICFs in his work.
The panel discusses what makes a building green, how green U.Va is, ways to increase energy efficiency in your home, and the financial costs of green methods. There’s also a definition of LEED, a building standard run by a group called the U.S. Green Building Council.
