Most Read This Week In Poverty

[close] Join author Richard Biggs as he discusses his new book There Is No Hope Here, a story about poverty in the Appalachian Mountains of eastern Kentucky and a woman's remarkable effort to help.

[close] Did you ever wonder what it was like to live in district 12. The poorest district in Panem where if you even so much as look at a peacekeeper funny you might be killed. After the mocking jay rebellion the Peacekeepers have gotten much stricter. The fence is patrolled daily from the outside which makes it much harder to get in and supplies are becoming harder to get so prices are raising. Resulting in many starving Seam children. Can you survive life in District 12? HUNGER GAMES MAY BE INCLUDED LATER

[close] I'm very interested in learning about education in the US. I've been reading about charter schools, school reform, Montessori schools, local and national standards, issues of teacher unions and tenure, alternate-certification methods for teachers, issues of race and culture in schooling, issues of poverty in schooling, etc. I'm hoping to find others interested in some or all of these topics!

[close] “If you have come to help me, you are wasting your time. If you have come because your liberation is bound up with mine, then let us work together.” - Lilla Watson Peace Corps and International Development is problematic, and as a returned volunteer, I have been wanting for some time to critically re-examine my overseas experience, to think through its explicit and implicit power dynamics. How do issues of race, class, gender, colonialism, and geopolitics inform the "do-gooder" mentality of volunteer and paid international development work, and what does that mean for its impact on volunteers, host communities, and others? Change begins with learning, and that is why I wanted to start this group where we could read, discuss, and share centered on thought-provoking books that bring a more critical perspective to Peace Corps and ID organizations. One goal is to create a syllabus to be shared with future or returned Peace Corps Volunteers as well as others, something akin to Ibram X. Kendi's anti-racist syllabus for Ralph Northam. What would we imagine for Peace Corps and ID organizations if we incorporated a true grappling with our place in the world, this work, its dynamics, and discourses of improvement?