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Are_grits_groceries Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-30-09 07:05 AM
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The Science Indoctrination Inoculation Project: Support Real Math & Science in Red State Schools
From Daily Kos:

hyperbolic pants explosion's diary ::

Solid science education is the best inoculation against lasting indoctrination.

The objective of this project is to combat the anti-science push in conservative America by providing direct funding each week to math and science projects in red state classrooms.

Fortunately, a conduit organization for achieving this direct funding already exists: DonorsChoose.org. If the name sounds familiar to you, it's probably because Stephen Colbert has partnered with them in the past to fund schools with high percentages of military kids. DonorsChoose.org allows you to make direct contributions to specific classroom projects (all vetted), resulting in tremendous and immediate impacts from small dollar donations.

Each week, I will compile a list of the most urgent DonorsChoose.org math and science projects from red state (as defined here) classrooms. These will be projects whose funding requests are expiring within the next 7 days. If the projects are not funded by their expiration date, they die.

We're not going to be able to rescue all these projects, but we can make a dent. You give, you save the projects, and you help protect our future.

DonorsChoose.org: http://www.donorschoose.org/

From DonorsChoose.org: How It Works page: http://www.donorschoose.org/about/how_it_works.html

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/9/29/787471/-The-Indoctrination-Inoculation-Project:-MathScience-in-Red-State-Schools

I donated to a project in SC. It is sad that teachers have to rely on a method like this.
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