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Dec 18, 2024 | 
thebeliever.net | Pepper Stetler
Pepper Stetler On a Monday morning in early June, Nicole Storm arrived at the Creative Growth Art Center in downtown Oakland, California. Light poured in through broad windows that faced the street. Nicole put her jacket and lunch away in the closet and then selected a large piece of cardboard from a stack in a hallway.
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Sep 21, 2024 | 
bookoftheday.nextbigideaclub.com | Pepper Stetler |Shalinee Sharma |Jennifer Berkshire |Jack Schneider
School is back in session, and students are facing a fresh set of challenges—assignments, tests, and the ever-present pressure to perform. For parents and educators, the question is not just how to keep up but how to help students truly thrive. To navigate this landscape and unlock each child’s potential, check out these six insightful books that offer fresh perspectives on education, intelligence, and success.
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Sep 6, 2024 | 
advisorstream.com | Pepper Stetler |Ron Phillips
By Pepper Stetler Sept. 6, 2024 Soon after my daughter Louisa was born, a doctor visited my hospital room and told me and my husband Andy that she wanted to point out some features of our baby. At first, this struck me as quaint. In my daze of exhaustion and happiness, I somehow thought it a celebratory routine for a doctor to identify features of a baby like a salesperson going over the bells and whistles of a new car.
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Sep 5, 2024 | 
wsj.com | Pepper Stetler
Soon after my daughter Louisa was born, a doctor visited my hospital room and told me and my husband Andy that she wanted to point out some features of our baby. At first, this struck me as quaint. In my daze of exhaustion and happiness, I somehow thought it a celebratory routine for a doctor to identify features of a baby like a salesperson going over the bells and whistles of a new car.
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Aug 23, 2024 | 
lithub.com | Pepper Stetler
In the fourteen years since I earned my Ph.D. and became an art history professor, I have witnessed a rapid reorganization of the purpose and values of higher education that has left me wondering about my place in it. I have a career that I am proud of, and I believe that what I teach improves my students’ lives in intangible and pragmatic ways.
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Aug 19, 2024 | 
insidehighered.com | Pepper Stetler
You have /5 articles left. Sign up for a free account or log in. zimmytws/iStock/Getty Images PlusLast spring, a number of elite colleges and universities announced a return to requiring standardized test scores as part of admissions applications. At the beginning of the pandemic, universities like Brown, Harvard and Dartmouth suspended their standardized testing requirements, making entrance exams optional for aspiring attendees.
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May 12, 2024 | 
nytimes.com | Pepper Stetler
In 2004 Heather Hancock and Craig Blackburn were set up on a blind date while attending a Down syndrome advocacy conference. "I knew right away Craig was who I wanted to marry," Ms. Hancock told me. But Mr. Blackburn lived in Metairie, La., and Ms. Hancock in Oklahoma City. They visited each other when they could and talked on the phone constantly. The relationship grew over the next three years, and eventually Mr. Blackburn proposed.
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Aug 1, 2023 | 
portside.org | Wen Stephenson |Carrie Baker |John Knefel |Pepper Stetler
What Do We Talk About When We Talk About Revolution? ERA Centennial ConventionThe New Fascist Order for KidsA Bakery Challenges AbleismRightist Leaders Out of the ShadowsPrisoner-Led Organizing Saved My LifeGOP: Slavery Was a Jobs Skills ProgramMcDonald’s Walkout in LACop City Referendum in AtlantaDemocracy Denied in an Alabama TownWhat Do We Talk About When We Talk About Revolution? By Wen StephensonThe Baffler If you like this article, please sign up for Snapshot, Portside's daily summary.
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Jul 27, 2023 | 
slate.com | Pepper Stetler
From music to color-coded measuring cups, the environment plays to the strengths of people with intellectual disabilities. The frames around the large windows of Invictus Bakery in Brooklyn remind me of saccharine pink frosting. When I arrive on a rainy Friday morning, the smell of chocolate greets me at the door. The bakers arrange a pop-up store outside when the weather cooperates, but today neighbors with their dogs peek their heads in to buy a few dog treats, or a dozen cookies.
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Jan 30, 2023 | 
progressive.org | Pepper Stetler
When Jan Dougherty’s son, Ryan, graduated from high school in Canton, Ohio, in 2002, school counselors and vocational rehabilitation providers told her that the only place he belonged was a sheltered workshop.
“We were told Ryan didn’t belong in the community,” Dougherty says. Ryan, who is autistic, was considered “too disabled” to work.
When it was passed in 1938, the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) established a federal minimum wage, guidelines for overtime pay, and child labor restrictions.
