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FOCUS ON EDUCATION
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Wednesday, July 19, 2017
Denton Record-Chronicle
Ex-schools chief: Arizona
program taught by radicals
UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS
technology trade association in
Texas.
more Hispanic students inter-
ested in science.
Ladys Contreras and Jesus
Sanchez Ontiveros from Fort
Worth ISD and Mary Batalla
from
Branch ISD worked with profes-
sors from the College of Science
and College of Engineering for
the institute.
With the professors, the
teachers learned more about
current research they can bring
back into their classrooms to
help students.
Professor finalist for
technology award
Ram Dantu, director of
UNTs Center for Information
and Computer Security, is a fi-
nalist for a Tech Titans Award.
He was nominated in the
technology inventor category for
his work on software for cell-
phones to help people properly
perform chest compressions on
heart attack victims.
Tech Titans is the largest
Winners will be announced
at the group's annual awards
ceremony in August.
Carrollton-Farmers
By Astrid Galvan
Associated Press
PHOENIX — Former Arizo-
na schools chief Tom Home
spent Tuesday morning defend-
ing his yearslong battle against a
popular Mexican-American
Studies program in Tucson that
was shuttered when the state
Legislature passed a law target-
ing ethnic studies.
Horne — who was the super-
intendent of public schools
when the bill he drafted passed
and who later defended the
2010 law7 as the state’s attorney
general — said he was troubled
by the program and was in gen-
eral targeting all ethnic studies
programs, not just the one for
Mexican Americans.
Plaintiffs’ attorney Jim
Quinn questioned Horne all
morning. The questioning is ex-
pected to continue the rest of the
day in the trial that will deter-
mine whether the law7 w7as en-
acted with discriminatory in-
tent.
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Carlos Galindo protests outside the Arizona Department of
Education in Phoenix, along with other supporters of an eth-
nic studies program in the Tucson school district in 2011
sions about the program if he
never visited a classroom. “I
didn’t wrant them to put on a
show for me and then make it
seem innocuous,” Home said.
The Tucson program began
in 1998 and focused on Mexi-
can-American history, literature
and art in an effort to keep Mex-
ican-American students in
school and engaged. The Tucson
Unified School District board
dismantled the program in Jan-
uary 2012, a month after the law
took effect, to keep from losing
state funding. Program advo-
cates say students who partici-
pated in the program outper-
formed their peers in grades.
TWU.
Andrea
earned a 2017 Melanie Founda-
tion scholarship to help fund her ed Wierzchowski $1,500.
led by radical teachers who
taught students to be rude and
disruptive. He said the battle
against the program began in
part when Home and an aide
visited a Tucson high school to
rebut prior statements made by
guest speaker Dolores Huerta, a
well-known national labor and
civil rights activist, that Repub-
licans "hate Latinos.”
Some students taped their
mouths and turned their back
on Home’s aide, later walking
out of the event with their fists in
the air, “which is a pretty extrem-
ist thing to do,” Home said.
Home was questioned about
how he could come to conclu-
NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS COLLEGE
are all part of a manufacturing
consortium.
The employees will leam
North Central Texas College Workforce Commission will specialized new7 technology for
train employees for Bowie In- blue print reading, computer
dustries, Empire Countertops, numeric control systems and
MFG Texas, Team Fishel and other types of jobs within the
Tri-Tex Cabinets. The businesses manufacturing companies.
to a $490,741 Skills Develop-
ment Fund grant.
The grant from the Texas
NCTC lands workforce
development grant
The courts have upheld most
parts of the law that prohibits
courses if they promote resent-
ment toward a race or a class of
people, are designed primarily
for peoples of a particular ethnic
group, or advocate ethnic soli-
darity instead of the treatment
of peoples as individuals.
Home said the program was
will help train 244 new7 and cur-
rent workers about new manu-
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child, leading to bad luck, even
death.
By Russell Contreras
Associated Press
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -
Laughter can combat trauma.
Spiritual cleansings could be
used to fight an opioid addic-
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These insights are from cu-
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professor Eliseo “Cheo” Torres’
has included these thoughts in a
new, unique textbook connected
to his internationally known an-
nual course on curanderismo.
“Curanderismo: The Art of
Traditional Medicine Without
Borders,” released last w7eek, co-
incides with Torres’ annual gath-
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healers around the world at the
University of New Mexico.
For nearly 20 years, healers
and their students have come to
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change ideas on traditional heal-
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ten ignored and ridiculed.
Torres, who is also the uni-
versity’s vice president for stu-
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of the annual course and a simi-
lar online class he teaches con-
vinced him that there needed to
be a textbook on curanderismo.
“This textbook came out of
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the ideas that have been shared
through the years,” Torres said
during a special morning cere-
mony with Aztec dancers on
campus. “From healers in Mex-
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long traditions of healing that
are being rediscovered by a new
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Curanderismo is the art of
“I believe people are disen-
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Torres said. “Some people can’t
afford it now, and they are
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of medicinal plants used to help
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