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State Department blogs, Synablogs, OH education, open records


No time to comment but worth reading:

State Department Tries Blog Diplomacy – I’m pretty sure I’ve blogged about the effort before but I can’t come up with the prior post.

Psychohorsey comments on the recent spate of media attention to Governor Strickland’s approach to school funding

Pho with some good perspective on just how different – and not in the “different is good” way – Ohio’s charter school record is.

I serve on the board of my synagogue and cannot quantify what I’ve learned beyond “infinite.” Last week, this study on synagogues and social justice was released. I haven’t read it yet but here’s the basic background:

In May 2007, the S3K Synagogue Studies Institute and Jewish Funds for Justice (JFSJ) convened a consultation on synagogue engagement with social justice. Participants included fifty clergy, lay leaders, activists, and funders from around the United States who are interested and involved in doing justice work within and beyond synagogues.

S3K and JFSJ invited three widely recognized scholars of congregations and social engagement: Professors Nancy Ammerman (Boston University), Mark Chaves (Duke University), and Richard L. Wood (University of New Mexico).

The S3K-JFSJ gathering sought to begin to address these issues. We asked, “How are synagogues engaging in justice work? How can we determine if this engagement is transforming not only the world, but also the synagogues and congregants themselves? And what does that transformation look like?”

This S3K Report, a product of our partnership with JFSJ, offers reflective commentaries about social justice and congregational transformation, as well as a set of questions for use by synagogue leaders who wish to pursue these issues in their home communities.

Good bedtime reading maybe. Here’s the group’s Synablog.

Florida’s governor is injecting more openness into open records law. How does Ohio compare?

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By Jill Miller Zimon at 10:34 am November 19th, 2007 in Blogging, Education, Foreign Affairs, Government, Jewish, Judaism, Ohio, Politics, Religion 

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