September’s Crucial Vote: Unified Negotiation vs. UNilateralism

By: Cee Marie Hinkle (Diary)  |  August 15th at 10:07 AM  | 

August 14, 2011, the Sunday after the straws aligned in the Iowa cornfields and a Texan two stepped into the 2012 race at the South Carolina Red State gathering, a shofar horn quieted a massive gathering for proactive support of Israel at Atlanta’s Georgia World Congress Center. A few months before, on May 31st, Americans United With Israel started a Facebook account that would organize | Read More »

Teaching to the Tests: Parents’ Lessons From a Scandal That Left Children Behind

By: Cee Marie Hinkle (Diary)  |  July 6th at 12:29 PM  | 

Given to children in the third to eighth grade, the Criterion-Referenced Competency Tests (CRCT) were meant to gauge each student’s abilities in reading, mathematics, English/Language Arts, Social studies, and Science. In the Atlanta Georgia School District, hours after the students handed in these tests, an alleged 140 teachers feverishly erased wrong answers and penciled in correct answers. An alleged thirty-eight principals were equally busy. Later, | Read More »