Media Literacy: Deconstructing and Constructing
Sunday, March 28th, 2010 | | No Comments
Here, we are breaking media literacy into two components, deconstruction and construction of media.
Deconstructing media
Students will analyze existing media to see how a message is composed. Because advertisements are fairly short and blatant, we will use those for now.
What is the goal of the advertisement? (To sell.) How is that goal conveyed? What propaganda techniques are used? How does each production decision influence the overall message? What is the message of each production decision?
An example analysis is here:
Media Literacy Project Deconstruction Gallery
PBS Kids Don’t Buy It Advertising Tricks
Here is some source material students might use:
Magazine ads (Or use a real magazine to cut out)
TV Commercials: The Clapper and other 80’s stuff
TV Public Service Announcements
Propaganda techniques are here:
Institute of Propaganda Analysis
Sourcewatch has a more extensive list
Constructing media
By creating their own ads, counter-ads, or public service announcements, students gain an intimate understanding of the many decisions that go into creating media.
Video basics (storyboarding, etc) are at kids vid. Overview of video is at video101.
Counter ads are at adbusters and student work is at the Media Literacy Project Counter Ad Gallery or see Dove’s Evolution.
How this media should be constructed is important also. Students could cut and paste on ads in a magazine, create their own original print ads by hand, or use an image editing program, or create a one-minute advertisement skit, or actually shoot and edit the video, or use flash or powerpoint.
Resources
Here’s some of the best resources I found on Media Literacy
A great guide with lesson plans and 5 core concepts and 5 key questions is in the practice section of the Media Lit Kit at the Center for Media Literacy.
Media Literacy Online Project has a huge number of links and resources.
As does the edselect site.
Evaluating software and online resources
Sunday, March 28th, 2010 | | No Comments
To make an evaluation of whether or not to use, and how to use, educational software and online resources, we must have an educational context and purpose in mind first.
To avoid merely discussing this as theory, let’s learn by doing.
Take a look at the media literacy post. We will look for online resources we could use for a lesson on deconstructing media using advertisements.
As we look for these resources, we will start developing a rubric of things to look for when evaluating software and online resources.
Rubric:
User interface: Easy to navigate.
Example products
Stimulating
Visual: fonts, colors, navigation, graphics, sound
Age appropriate
Does it work? Or what I have to do to make it work?
Engaging content
Accessible content
What else is on the website?
Cost
Appropriate advertisements
What technology is available?
What does this allow to do that we couldnät do otherwise
Of course, there are others who have come up with ways to evaluate educational software, so let’s compare their way to ours to see if there’s something we should add to ours.
Check out Dr. Justus Randolph’s rubric for show-and-tell (bottom of page), they might make a good rubric for evaluating software also!
Try the Buyers’ Worksheet
Or the Guide for Evaluating Software
The ISTE NETS standards have some good ideas for performance indicators.
Michigan Teaching Standards 7c and 7d address evaluating software.
School Funding
Tuesday, August 26th, 2008 | | No Comments
Why are thousands of students not going to their school today?
http://www.chicagoreporter.com/index.php/c/Web%20Exclusive/d/Wildly_Disparate_Funding
All of these numbers use ratio in order to make comparisons. Some use unit rate – a comparison based on one unit. Some use percentage – a comparison based on one hundred units.
History Fair: Triumph and Tragedy
Wednesday, December 20th, 2006 | | No Comments
chicago historical society resources (great place to find primary sources)
try the encyclopedia
http://www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org
also, if 1902-1933 try the daily news photos
http://www.chicagohistory.org/research/resources/online-resources/online
links to chicago historical collections, from the chicago history fair website:
http://chicagohistoryfair.org/2_historicalcollections.html
check out http://wikipedia.org or brittanica (from school computer) for basic information
Maps of Chicago:
http://earlychicago.com/maps.php
http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/e/su/maps/chisoc/
Pullman
listen:
npr 1 or
npr 2
this is hell from this is hell 2004
for primary source information check on the links here:
historic pullman foundation links
Jazz
MUST check this:
chicago jazz bibliography
see resources section here
primary sources at resources section here:
http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/e/su/cja/greatmigration.html
http://www.robotwisdom.com/jorn/jazz.html
http://chicago.urban-history.org/mainmenu.shtml
you MUST listen to some jazz
also you can listen to oral histories from links here:
http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/e/su/cja/oralhist.html
go here for a great jazz record store:
http://www.jazzmart.com/jrm.home.htm
other books/articles on jazz
Thomas L Morgan and William Barlow, From Cakewalks to Concert Halls : An Illustrated History of African American Popular Music, From 1895-1930, (Washington, D.C.: Elliott and Clark, 1992)
Samuel B. Charters and Leonard Kundstadt, Jazz: A History of the New York Scene,, (New York: Da Capo, 1981)
Gunther Schuller, Early Jazz : Its Roots and Musical Development, (New York: Oxford, 1986)
The Illinois Entertainer, June 1985 “History of Chicago Jazz” by Robert Wolf
Native Americans and Chicago
Fort Dearborn Massacre
http://www.harpers.org/TheMassacreOfFortDearbornAtChicago.html
http://www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/477.html
http://www.prairieghosts.com/dearborn.html
Pictures of Fort Dearborn:
http://www.chipublib.org/004chicago/timeline/ftdearborn.html
Or see the Black Hawk War
general kid-friendly overview of Chicago History at:
http://library.thinkquest.org/CR0215480/index.htm
or primary sources listed at
http://lincoln.lib.niu.edu/blackhawk/bibliography.html
Chicago area Native American Treaties:
http://www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/1270.html
Native Americans historically in Chicago area:
http://www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/874.html
http://www.pbpindiantribe.com/timeline1.htm
http://www.tolatsga.org/pota.html
have to go to the library for this one:
http://eric.ed.gov/ERICWebPortal/Home.portal?_nfpb=true&_pageLabel=RecordDetails&ERICExtSearch_SearchValue_0=ED149886&ERICExtSearch_SearchType_0=eric_accno&objectId=0900000b8010b631
Indian Removal Act: (search wikipedia, etc.)
Lucy Maddox, Removals: Nineteenth-Century American Literature and the Politics of Indian Affairs (New York : Oxford University Press, 1991).
Germs and Chicago (search for disease chicago history or chicago sanitation history)
http://www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/300017.html
http://www.chipublib.org/004chicago/disasters/early_cholera.html
http://www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/432.html
see “The Jungle” by Upton Sinclair
http://www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/679.html
I & M Canal
http://www.chipublib.org/digital/sewers/canal.html
http://www.chipublib.org/digital/sewers/history.html
White Flight
http://www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/880.html
http://eh.net/Clio/Publications/flight.shtml
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austin,_Chicago
and its still happening:
http://www.chicagoreporter.com/1997/12-97/1297main.htm
Blockbusting
http://www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/147.html
School Desegregation / Busing
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,912178,00.html?promoid=googlep
Media Literacy
Tuesday, November 14th, 2006 | | No Comments
http://www.frankwbaker.com/social_studies_resources.htm
http://www.mediawatch.com/
http://www.mediastudies.rutgers.edu/cmsyme.html
http://interact.uoregon.edu/MediaLit/mlr/resources/resources.html
http://www.animaction.com/gallery.htm
http://www.retrojunk.com/
Hey, YOU! What are you doing (or NOT doing) to STAY HEALTHY?
Sunday, November 5th, 2006 | | No Comments
These three Chicago Dept. of Public Health clinics offer free condoms and free, confidential (that means private) HIV testing to anyone age 12 and up. Be sure to call first to confirm that someone is available for the services that you need.
West Town Adolescent Specialty Clinic
2418 W. Division
Phone: (312) 742-4092
Tue.: 10 a.m.– 6 p.m.
Fri.: 8 a.m.– 4 p.m.
South Austin Specialty Clinic
4958 W. Madison
Phone: (312) 746-4871
Mon., Wed., Fri.: 8:00 a.m.– 4:00 p.m.
Tue., Thu.: 10 a.m.– 6 p.m.
31st Street Specialty
530 E. 31st St., 1st Floor
Phone: (312) 745-1493/1496
Mon., Wed., Fri.: 8:00 a.m.– 4:00 p.m.
Tue., Thu.: 10 a.m.– 6 p.m.
Chicago Recovery Alliance offers clean needles and counseling to help people struggling with addiction to stop abusing drugs and lower their risk of HIV. To learn more about them, check out their website www.anypositivechange.org or call Cheryl at 773-860-1804 or Hector at 847-830-9255.
If you want to volunteer, request someone to speak about HIV, or if you have questions, you can reach Better Existence with HIV (BEHIV) at www.behiv.org or 773-293-4740.
You can learn more about how HIV and AIDS can affect you, your health, and your world at www.thebody.org, www.data.org, www.cdc.gov, and www.unaids.org.
Remember: To lower the risk of HIV, a person can postpone sex, use a latex condom if he or she chooses to have sex, not share needles, get tested, talk to his or her partners and friends about HIV and AIDS, not abuse drugs and alcohol, and/or have one faithful, HIV-negative partner.
Video Reflection #2
Thursday, October 26th, 2006 | | No Comments
1. HOW have we come up with the list of ideas?
2. Do you feel that we have adequately explored the options and ideas?
3. How can we make sure everyone is heard?
4. How should we proceed? Give concrete solutions.
Sept 11, 2001 – Comparing Numbers
Sunday, September 10th, 2006 | | No Comments
Compare numbers from the following two articles about 9-11-01. One article was written a day after 9-11-02, while the second was written much later. Which numbers are probably very accurate? Which are probably only rough estimates? How do you know? Why are the articles’ numbers different?
(Above is in conjunction with CMP Data Around Us Inv. 1.1)
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http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/12/nyregion/12PLAN.html?ei=5070&en=205be39483c916b2&ex=1158033600&pagewanted=print
SEP 12, 2001
Hijacked Jets Destroy Twin Towers and Hit Pentagon
By SERGE SCHMEMANN
Hijackers rammed jetliners into each of New York’s World Trade Center towers yesterday, toppling both in a hellish storm of ash, glass, smoke and leaping victims, while a third jetliner crashed into the Pentagon in Virginia. There was no official count, but President Bush said thousands had perished, and in the immediate aftermath the calamity was already being ranked the worst and most audacious terror attack in American history.
The attacks seemed carefully coordinated. The hijacked planes were all en route to California, and therefore gorged with fuel, and their departures were spaced within an hour and 40 minutes. The first, American Airlines Flight 11, a Boeing 767 out of Boston for Los Angeles, crashed into the north tower at 8:48 a.m. Eighteen minutes later, United Airlines Flight 175, also headed from Boston to Los Angeles, plowed into the south tower.
Then an American Airlines Boeing 757 left Washington’s Dulles International Airport bound for Los Angeles, but instead hit the western part of the Pentagon, the military headquarters where 24,000 people work, at 9:40 a.m. Finally, United Airlines Flight 93, a Boeing 757 flying from Newark to San Francisco, crashed near Pittsburgh, raising the possibility that its hijackers had failed in whatever their mission was.
In all, 266 people perished in the four planes and several score more were known dead elsewhere. Numerous firefighters, police officers and other rescue workers who responded to the initial disaster in Lower Manhattan were killed or injured when the buildings collapsed. Hundreds were treated for cuts, broken bones, burns and smoke inhalation.
By 8 p.m., police officer volunteers using dogs had found four bodies in the smoldering, stories-high pile of rubble where the towers had once stood and had taken them to a makeshift morgue in the lobby of an office building at Vesey and West Streets.
But the real carnage was concealed for now by the twisted, smoking, ash-choked carcasses of the twin towers, in which tens of thousands of people used to work on a weekday. The collapse of the towers caused another World Trade Center building to fall 10 hours later, and several other buildings in the area were damaged or aflame.
“I have a sense it’s a horrendous number of lives lost,” said Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani. “Right now we have to focus on saving as many lives as possible.”
The Mayor warned that “the numbers are going to be very, very high.”
He added that the medical examiner’s office will be ready “to deal with thousands and thousands of bodies if they have to.”
Within an hour, the United States was on a war footing. The military was put on the highest state of alert, National Guard units were called out in Washington and New York and two aircraft carriers were dispatched to New York harbor. President Bush remained aloft in Air Force One, following a secretive route and making only brief stopovers at Air Force bases in Louisiana and Nebraska. His wife and daughters were evacuated to a secure, unidentified location. The White House, the Pentagon and the Capitol were evacuated, except for the Situation Room in the White House where Vice President Cheney remained in charge, giving the eerie impression of a national capital virtually stripped of its key institutions.
Nobody immediately claimed responsibility for the attacks. But the scale and sophistication of the operation, the extraordinary planning required for concerted hijackings by terrorists who had to be familiar with modern jetliners, and the history of major attacks on American targets in recent years led many officials and experts to point to Osama bin Laden, the Islamic militant believed to operate out of Afghanistan. Afghanistan’s hard-line Taliban rulers rejected such suggestions, but officials took that as a defensive measure.
Attorney General John Ashcroft told reporters in the evening that the suspects on the first flight were armed with knives.
Senator Orrin Hatch, Republican of Utah, told reporters that the United States had some evidence that people associated with Mr. bin Laden had sent out messages “actually saying over the airwaves, private airwaves at that, that they had hit two targets.”
In the evening, explosions were reported in Kabul, the Afghan capital. But officials at the Pentagon denied that the United States had attacked that city.
President Bush, facing his first major crisis in office, vowed that the United States would hunt down and punish those responsible for the “evil, despicable acts of terror” which, he said, took thousands of American lives. He said the United States would make no distinction between those who carried out the hijackings and those who harbored and supported them
“These acts of mass murder were intended to frighten our nation into chaos and retreat, but they have failed,” a somber president told the nation in an address from the Oval Office shortly after 8:30 p.m.
Earlier, landing at Barksdale, Air Force One was accompanied by fighter jets on both wings, and surrounded on the ground by Air Force personnel in full combat gear. Mr. Bush returned to Washington at 7 p.m.
The repercussions of the attack swiftly spread across the nation. Air traffic across the United States was halted at least until today and international flights were diverted to Canada. Borders with Canada and Mexico were closed. Most federal buildings across the country were shut down. Major skyscrapers and a variety of other sites, ranging from Disney theme parks to the Golden Gate Bridge and United Nations headquarters in New York, were evacuated.
But it was in New York that the calamity achieved levels of horror and destruction known only in war.
The largest city in the United States, the financial capital of the world, was virtually closed down. Transportation into Manhattan was halted, as was much of public transport within the city. Parts of Lower Manhattan were without power. Major stock exchanges closed. Primary elections for mayor and other city offices were cancelled. Thousands of workers, released from their offices in Lower Manhattan but with no way to get home except by foot, set off in vast streams, down the avenues and across the bridges under a beautiful, clear sky, accompanied by the unceasing serenade of sirens.
While doctors and nurses at hospitals across the city tended to hundreds of damaged people, a disquieting sense grew throughout the day at other triage centers and emergency rooms that there would, actually, be less work: the morgues were going to be busiest.
A sense of shock, grief and solidarity spread rapidly through the city. There was the expectation that friends and relatives would be revealed among the victims. Schools prepared to let students stay overnight if they could not get home, or if it emerged that there was no one to go home to.
There was also the fear that it was not over: stores reported a run on basic goods. And there was the urge to help. Thousands of New Yorkers lined up outside hospitals to donate blood.
As in great crises past, people exchanged stories of where they were when they heard the news.
“There is a controlled professionalism, but also a sense of shock,” said Mark G. Ackerman, an official at the St. Vincent Medical Center. “Obviously New York and all of us have experienced a trauma that is unparalleled.”
“I invite New Yorkers to join in prayer,” said Cardinal Edward M. Egan as he emerged from the emergency room of St. Vincent’s in blue hospital garb. “This is a tragedy that this great city can handle. I am amazed at the goodness of our police and our firefighters and our hospital people.”
All communications creaked under the load of the sudden emergency. Mobile phones became all but useless, intercity lines were clogged and major Internet servers reported overloads.
The area around the World Trade Center resembled a desert after a terrible sandstorm. Parts of buildings, crushed vehicles and the shoes, purses, umbrellas and baby carriages of those who fled lay covered with thick, gray ash, through which weeping people wandered in search of safety, each with a story of pure horror.
Imez Graham, 40, and Dee Howard, 37, both of whom worked on the 61st floor of the north tower, were walking up Chambers Street, covered in soot to their gracefully woven dreadlocks caked in soot, barefoot. They had spent an hour walking down the stairs after the first explosion. They were taken to an ambulance, when the building collapsed. They jumped out and began to walk home. “They need me; I’ve got to get home,” Ms. Howard said. Where was that? “As far away from here as possible.”
In Chinatown, a woman offered them a pair of dainty Chinese sandals. Nearby, construction workers offered to hose the soot off passing people.
The twin pillars of the World Trade Center were among the best known landmarks in New York, 110- floor unadorned blocks that dominated any approach to Manhattan. It is probable that renown, and the thousands of people who normally work there each weekday, that led Islamic militants to target the towers for destruction already in 1993, then by parking vans loaded with explosives in the basement.
There is no way to know how many people were at work shortly before 9 a.m. when the first jetliners sliced into the north tower, also known as 1 World Trade Center. CNN and other television networks were quick to focus their cameras on the disaster, enabling untold numbers of viewers to witness the second jetliner as it banked into the south tower 18 minutes later, blowing a cloud of flame and debris out the other side.
Even more viewers were tuned in by 9:50 a.m. when the south tower suddenly vanished in swirling billows of ash, collapsing in on itself. Then at 10:29 a.m. the north tower followed. A choking grey cloud billowed out, blocking out the bright sunshine and chasing thousands of panicked workers through the canyons of Lower Manhattan. Plumes continued to rise high over the city late into the night.
“The screaming was just horrendous,” recalled Carol Webster, an official of the Nyack College Alliance Seminary who had just emerged from the PATH trains when the carnage began. “Every time there would be another explosion, people would start screaming and thronging again.”
The scenes of horror were indelible; people who left from the broken towers, people who fought for pay phones, people white with soot and red with blood. “We saw people jumping from the tower as the fire was going on,” said Steve Baker, 27. “The sky went black, all this stuff came onto us, we ran.”
The timing was murderous for the armada of rescue vehicles that gathered after the planes crashed, and were caught under the collapsing buildings. Many rescue workers were reported killed or injured, and the anticipation that Building 7 would soon follow led to a suspension of operatios. The firefighters union said that at least 200 of its members had died.
Mayor Giuliani, along with the police and fire commissioners and the director of emergency management, was forced to abandon a temporary command center at 75 Barclay Street, a block from the World Trade Center, and the mayor emerged with his gray suit covered with ash.
In the evening, officials reported that buildings 5 and 7 of the World Trade Center had also collapsed, and buildings all around the complex had their windows blown out. The Rector Street subway station collapsed, and the walkway at West Street was gone.
World leaders hastened to condemn the attacks, including Palestinian leader Yasir Arafat and Libya’s Muammar al-Qhaddafy.
European leaders began quiet discussions last night about how they might assist the United States in striking back, and Russia’s president, Vladimir Putin, joined in expressing support for a retaliatory strike.
But in the West Bank city of Nablus, rejoicing Palestinians, who have been locked in a bitter struggle with Israel for almost a year, went into the streets to chant, “God is great!” and to distribute candies to celebrate the attacks.
Many governments took their own precautions against attack. Israel evacuated many of its embassies abroad, and non-essential staffers at NATO headquarters in Brussels were ordered home.
In Afghanistan, the ruling Taliban argued that Mr. bin Laden could not have been responsible for the attacks. “What happened in the United States was not a job of ordinary people,” an official, Abdul Hai Mutmaen, told Reuters. “It could have been the work of governments. Osama bin Laden cannot do this work.”
Apart from the major question of who was responsible, a host of other questions were certain to be at the forefront in coming days and weeks. One was the timing — why Sept. 11?
The date seemed to have no obvious meaning. One of the men convicted in the bombing of the United States Embassy in Nairobi in 1998, in which 213 were killed, was originally scheduled for sentencing on Sept. 12. But the sentencing of the man, Mohamed Rasheed Daoud al-’Owhali, had been put off to mid-October.
It was possible that Mr. Al-’Owhali and the others convicted with him were close witnesses to the bombings, since terror suspects typically await sentencing at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Lower Manhattan. Officials have not confirmed that the convicted Nairobi bombers are there.
Many questions would also be raised about how hijackers managed to seize four jets with all the modern safeguards in place. Initial information was sketchy, although a passenger on the United Airlines jetliner that crashed in Pennsylvania managed to make a cellular phone call from the toilet. “We are being hijacked, we are being hijacked,” the man shouted at 9:58 a.m. As he was speaking, the plane crashed about eight miles east of Jennerstown, killing all 45 aboard.
For all the questions, what was clear was that the World Trade Center would take its place among the great calamities of American history, a day of infamy like Pearl Harbor, Oklahoma City, Lockerbie.
The very absence of the towers would become a symbol after their domination of the New York skyline for 25 years. Though initial reviews were mixed when the towers were dedicated in 1976, they came into their own as landmarks with passing years. King Kong climbed one tower in a remake of the movie classic.
In April, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which ran the World Trade Center through its first 30 years, leased the complex for $3.2 billion to a group led by Larry A. Silverstein, a developer, and Westfield America Inc.
In recent years, the complex has filled up with tenants and revenues have increased. In addition to the towers the complex included four other buildings, two of which were also gone, for a total of 12 million square feet of rentable office space.
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9/11 by the Numbers
Death, destruction, charity, salvation, war, money, real estate, spouses, babies, and other September 11 statistics.
The initial numbers are indelible: 8:46 a.m. and 9:02 a.m. Time the burning towers stood: 56 minutes and 102 minutes. Time they took to fall: 12 seconds. From there, they ripple out.
* Total number killed in attacks (official figure as of 9/5/02): 2,819 * Number of firefighters and paramedics killed: 343 * Number of NYPD officers: 23 * Number of Port Authority police officers: 37 * Number of WTC companies that lost people: 60 * Number of employees who died in Tower One: 1,402 * Number of employees who died in Tower Two: 614 * Number of employees lost at Cantor Fitzgerald: 658 * Number of U.S. troops killed in Operation Enduring Freedom: 22 * Number of nations whose citizens were killed in attacks: 115 * Ratio of men to women who died: 3:1 * Age of the greatest number who died: between 35 and 39 * Bodies found “intact”: 289 * Body parts found: 19,858 * Number of families who got no remains: 1,717 * Estimated units of blood donated to the New York Blood Center: 36,000 * Total units of donated blood actually used: 258 * Number of people who lost a spouse or partner in the attacks: 1,609 * Estimated number of children who lost a parent: 3,051 * Percentage of Americans who knew someone hurt or killed in the attacks: 20 * FDNY retirements, January–July 2001: 274 * FDNY retirements, January–July 2002: 661 * Number of firefighters on leave for respiratory problems by January 2002: 300 * Number of funerals attended by Rudy Giuliani in 2001: 200 * Number of FDNY vehicles destroyed: 98 * Tons of debris removed from site: 1,506,124 * Days fires continued to burn after the attack: 99 * Jobs lost in New York owing to the attacks: 146,100 * Days the New York Stock Exchange was closed: 6 * Point drop in the Dow Jones industrial average when the NYSE reopened: 684.81 * Days after 9/11 that the U.S. began bombing Afghanistan: 26 * Total number of hate crimes reported to the Council on American-Islamic Relations nationwide since 9/11: 1,714 * Economic loss to New York in month following the attacks: $105 billion * Estimated cost of cleanup: $600 million * Total FEMA money spent on the emergency: $970 million * Estimated amount donated to 9/11 charities: $1.4 billion * Estimated amount of insurance paid worldwide related to 9/11: $40.2 billion * Estimated amount of money needed to overhaul lower-Manhattan subways: $7.5 billion * Amount of money recently granted by U.S. government to overhaul lower-Manhattan subways: $4.55 billion * Estimated amount of money raised for funds dedicated to NYPD and FDNY families: $500 million * Percentage of total charity money raised going to FDNY and NYPD families: 25 * Average benefit already received by each FDNY and NYPD widow: $1 million * Percentage increase in law-school applications from 2001 to 2002: 17.9 * Percentage increase in Peace Corps applications from 2001 to 2002: 40 * Percentage increase in CIA applications from 2001 to 2002: 50 * Number of songs Clear Channel Radio considered “inappropriate” to play after 9/11: 150 * Number of mentions of 9/11 at the Oscars: 26 * Apartments in lower Manhattan eligible for asbestos cleanup: 30,000 * Number of apartments whose residents have requested cleanup and testing: 4,110 * Number of Americans who changed their 2001 holiday-travel plans from plane to train or car: 1.4 million * Estimated number of New Yorkers suffering from post-traumatic-stress disorder as a result of 9/11: 422,000Jail
Monday, February 6th, 2006 | | No Comments
More Blacks in JailMinority overrepresentation in the criminal and juvenile justice system
Activity:
Draw 10 people and label them by ethnicity according to the juvenile population of Cook County (p. 4).
Draw 10 people and label them by ethnicity according to the arrested juvenile population of Cook County (p. 4).
Draw 10 people and label them by ethnicity according to the confined (jailed) juvenile population of Cook County (p. 5).
Draw 10 people and label them by ethnicity according to the juvenile population of Cook County transferred to adult court (top left, p. 6).
What do you notice?
Why do you think this occurs?
In “Minding the Gap” there are statistics that say that whites are more likely to use drugs than blacks, yet the statistics above seem to imply the opposite. What’s going on?
Minding the Gap: An Assessment of Racial Disparity in Metropolitan Chicago