by Christopher Paslay
Last spring, as part of my master’s degree in education at Eastern University, I took a course called Multicultural Education. I enrolled because I wanted to learn new methodologies that would broaden my teaching repertoire and help me better educate students from a wide variety of cultural backgrounds. Granted, I grew up in [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘Free Speech’
August 25, 2009
Advocacy group that promotes terrorist William Ayers will train Miss. school teachers on Civil Rights Movement
August 19, 2009
Chalk and Talk celebrates 100th post
by Christopher Paslay
Today’s blog post is a special one—it’s the 100th on Chalk and Talk since this site was launched on September 28th, 2008.
In just under 11 months on the internet, this site has received 20,650 views. The exposure and reach of this blog is steadily growing. In June, Chalk and Talk generated 2,995 views—an [...]
February 14, 2009
Joey Vento, multicultural ideology, and the ‘speak English’ sign
by Christopher Paslay
“This is America. When ordering, speak English.”
By now we know the story. Joey Vento, owner of the famous Geno’s Steaks in South Philadelphia, placed a small sign in the window of his restaurant asking customers to order in English. Although the Philadelphia Commission on Human Relations filed a discrimination complaint against Geno’s [...]
January 21, 2009
Robert Frost and the debate over Intelligent Design
by Christopher Paslay
Last week, as a supplemental activity to the Philadelphia School District’s 11th grade English curriculum, I had my students read and analyze the Robert Frost poem Design. This poem is about a white spider that camouflages itself on the petal of a white flower, and by doing so, manages to catch and kill [...]
December 11, 2008
Does a student have the right to make fun of his principal on the internet?
On Wednesday, KYW News Radio reported a very interesting free speech case involving a high school senior and his principal:
A federal appeals court in Philadelphia is pondering whether a high school was right to suspend and threaten other punishment against a senior in the western Pennsylvania town of Hermitage in the Mercer County school [...]
