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Richard Harwood

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100 Days Citizen Test

April 29, 2009

On President Obama’s hundredth day: five questions for citizens.

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Tagged With: Barack Obama, Citizenship, Dialog, Politics, Richard Harwood
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Dashed Hopes (or, Nonsense in Nashville)

October 8, 2008

Richard Harwood: “When this campaign started, many people, including myself, thought it was a golden opportunity for a real debate between competing visions for the nation’s future. Remember that?”

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Tagged With: Barack Obama, Debate, Fact Checking, John McCain, Nashville, Politics, Presidents, Richard Harwood
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So, Mrs. Palin, how does it feel to be a Problem?

September 3, 2008

W.E.B. DuBois has said, “being a problem is a strange experience…a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one’s self through the eyes of others, of measuring one’s soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity…” Problems change, but race is still a problem. And […]

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Tagged With: Alaska, Civility, Election 2008, Gender, John McCain, Politics, Race, Republicans, Richard Harwood, Sarah Palin, W.E.B. Du Bois, Women
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Blog Day 2008–Reading, Learning, Hoping, Blogging, Being

August 31, 2008

Blog Day is a linkfest initiated by Nir Ofir in 2005, in the belief that bloggers should have one day which will be dedicated to discover new blogs and expose them to the world. We all have a small number of people and sources of information with which we interact of a regular basis, and that social and informational context is part of what shapes who we are in the world. Blog Day is a chance to expand those social and informational horizons by forging new links into new networks, bridging the divides between people and communities and enlarging our own experience.

The basic rules for Blog Day ask bloggers to post about five blogs that they would like to share with the world. I’ve decided to do a little more…

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Tagged With: 22q11 Deletion Syndrome, Barack Obama, Bible, Blogging, Bob Dylan, Bookstores, Byron Borger, Community of Practice, DiGeorge Syndrome, Digital Literacy, Ian Stewart, Jon Boyd, Justin Tadlock, Lifelong Learning, Literacy, media ethics, Memes, Milton Gaither, Open-Books, Richard Harwood, Rick Warren, Shanta Rohse, social media, WordPress
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On Manifestoes

May 24, 2008

So here are some manifestos of the present day on books, education, faith, and civic life. Though their weight for good or ill, for much or little, is as yet unknown, these are some of the words that will shepherd us into our shared future.

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Shelved with: Civic Life|| Community & Time|| Education|| Hearts & Minds|| Mind & Society|| Reading the Word|| The Reading Life
Tagged With: Aristotle, Barack Obama, Book Publishing, Civil Rights, Classics, Clay Shirkey, Danielle Allen, Democracy, Education, Faith, History, Homeschooling, John Taylor Gatto, Manifesto, Michael Pollan, Politics, Race, Ralph Ellison, Religion, Richard Harwood, Sara Lloyd, Writing
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