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ParentsAssociation.com
is a resource for parents and guardians of children, adolescent
and college-age young adults. ParentsAssociation.com provides
substantive information on matters of interest and issues both
common and uncommon that affect our children, ourselves and our
communities.
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Recruiting,
Retention and Advancement of Women in Athletics
This
is a very different time with a very different feeling.
There is a tension between men and women in the workplace
that has never existed before. There is, according to Susan
Faludi in her book, a "backlash" against the invasion
of women into the workplace and women who seek equal rights
and privileges (Faludi, 1991). At the start of the 1980's,
it was the first time white men became less than 50% of
the workforce. It was the first time that no new manufacturing
jobs were created. It was the first time that more women
than men enrolled in college.
by Donna Lopiano, Ph.D.
Women's
Sports Foundation
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here for article
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Essay
by a Black Girl by IHaveANightmareToo, 18, female
..."I have a nightmare," she writes, "that the black family
in America has disappeared. While 80 percent of black children
lived in a family with a father and a mother under the same
roof when I [King] grew up, fewer than 30 percent do today.
Why have we allowed this to happen? Neither the Klan nor
Jim Crow did this to us. We have done it to ourselves."
In these few sentences, she identifies the single greatest
problem facing black Americans today; and in so doing, she
articulates what our most prominent civil rights leaders
– who focus almost exclusively on white society’s allegedly
racist transgressions – dare not say....
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Arab
American Students in Public Schools
Arab
Americans in U.S. schools represent more than 20 countries
in the Middle East and Northern Africa. They share many similarities
with other immigrant groups seeking to establish an ethnic
identity in a heterogeneous country, but they also face additional
challenges. These result especially from negative stereotyping;
racism and discrimination; widespread misinformation about
their history and culture; and, for the majority who are Muslim,
the need to find ways to practice their religion in a predominantly
Judeo-Christian country (Jackson, 1995).
by Wendy Schwartz
Teachers College, Columbia University
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I
Promise Program - An injury/loss prevention program targeted
to new teen drivers
Teen car crashes the single greatest cause of teen deaths
and permanent injuries in North America. How do you make
the roads safer for your teen driver? Until recently there
was little a parent could do to reduce the risk of their
teen being involved in a car crash. Now there is the "I
PromiseProgram".
by
Gary Direnfeld,
Executive Director, I Promise Program
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The
Most Important People
Happy
children have one characteristic in common: they know, without
doubt, that they are loved, that they are the most important
people in the world to someone else. Helping our children
feel this is not always easy. It requires diligence, perseverance,
and vigilance.
From
National Association of Independent Schools (NAIS 2001)
by Dane L. Peters
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Reducing
Injury and Death in Teen Drivers
Given
that automobile crashes are the leading cause of injury and
death in teens, you can pretty much say that teens drive themselves
to trauma centers. And, they do this in record numbers.
from
the Journal of Trauma Nursing
by Gary Direnfeld,
Executive Director, I Promise Program
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