Die Zeit: “Die EU wird einfach die Uhr anhalten”. “Je eher Theresa May geht, desto besser, sagt der britische Politiker Nick Clegg. Er hat eine Idee, wie Großbritannien in der Europäischen Union bleiben könnte.”
“Laut einer aktuellen Umfrage sind mittlerweile 59 Prozent für einen Verbleib in der EU. Gerade unter den jungen Wählern spricht sich eine überwältigende Mehrheit für eine EU-Mitgliedschaft Großbritanniens aus. Und diesmal würden wahrscheinlich auch mehr von ihnen ihre Stimme abgeben.”
Vox: Read the full transcript of Obama’s fiery anti-Trump speech. “This is not normal.”
“People ask me, what are you going to do for the election? No, the question is what are you going to do? You’re the antidote. Your participation and your spirit and your determination, not just in this election, but in every subsequent election and in the days between elections. Because in the end, the threat to our democracy doesn’t just come from Donald Trump or the current batch of Republicans in Congress or the Koch brothers and their lobbyists or too much compromise from Democrats or Russian hacking. The biggest threat to our democracy is indifference. The biggest threat to our democracy is cynicism.
Cynicism led too many people to turn away from politics and stay home on Election Day. To all the young people who are here today, there are now more eligible voters in your generation than in any other, which means your generation now has more power than anybody to change things. If you want it, you can make sure America gets out of its current funk. If you actually care about it, you have the power to make sure what we see is a brighter future. But to exercise that clout, to exercise that power, you have to show up. […] This whole project of self-government only works if everybody’s doing their part. Don’t tell me your vote doesn’t matter. “
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Die Zeit: Im Leererzimmer. So kann es nicht weitergehen: Deutschland braucht viel mehr Pädagogen, als man sich heute vorstellen kann.” Ein Kommentar von Manuel J. Hartung.
“Zwischen Euphorie und Ernüchterung liegen oft nur wenige Tage. Erst feiern Hunderttausende Erstklässler in ganz Deutschland ihre Einschulung, sie zelebrieren den Anfang, den Aufbruch, die Neugier. Dann beginnt der Unterricht in Schulen, in denen Stunden ausfallen, Quereinsteiger ohne pädagogische Ausbildung vor der Tafel stehen oder aber Studenten aus dem Sofortprogramm “Unterrichten statt Kellnern” plötzlich Deutsch oder Sachkunde servieren.
“Einen derart dramatischen Lehrermangel hatten wir seit drei Jahrzehnten nicht mehr”, sagt der Präsident des Lehrerverbands. Die Chefin der Gewerkschaft GEW spricht gar von “Bildungsnotstand”.”
Deutsche Welle: Dringend Lehrer gesucht! “Deutschen Schulen fehlen insgesamt fast 40.000 Lehrer, sagt der Deutsche Lehrerverband. Nun sollen verstärkt Menschen Lehrer werden, die ihre Karrieren in einem anderen Bereich begonnen haben. Wie realistisch ist das?”
“”Einen derart dramatischen Lehrermangel hatten wir in Deutschland seit drei Jahrzehnten nicht mehr“, klagt Heinz-Peter Meidinger, Präsident des Deutschen Lehrerverbandes (DL). “Insgesamt fehlen 40.000 Lehrer“. Volker Kauder, Fraktionsvorsitzender der Union, pflichtet ihm bei: “Der Beginn des Schuljahres in vielen Bundesländern hat gezeigt, dass unser Land in Gefahr ist, langsam in einen Bildungsnotstand hineinzulaufen“. Das Problem ist das Ergebnis vieler Faktoren: Ein Anstieg der Geburtenrate, ein großer Zuzug von Flüchtlingen, eine ganze Generation an pensionierten Lehrern, ein Mangel an Bildungsinvestitionen und hohe Hürden bei der Zulassung zu Lehramtsstudiengängen.”
The Washington Post: U.S. is denying passports to Americans along the border, throwing their citizenship into question.
“Juan is one of a growing number of people whose official birth records show they were born in the United States but who are now being denied passports — their citizenship suddenly thrown into question. The Trump administration is accusing hundreds, and possibly thousands, of Hispanics along the border of using fraudulent birth certificates since they were babies, and it is undertaking a widespread crackdown on their citizenship.”
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The Atlantic: The Education of Bill Oliver. “How a letter to Barack Obama tells the story of two strangers who became family, and one lifelong Republican’s journey to a new kind of patriotism.” By Jeanne Marie Laskas.
“Word came that President Barack Obama wanted to see some of the mail just the day after he took office. Mike Kelleher was the director of the Office of Presidential Correspondence (OPC). He got the call from the Oval saying the president wanted to see five letters. Then they called back with a correction. The president wanted to see 15 letters. They called back one more time. He wanted to see 10 that day, and every day.
“It was a small gesture, I thought, at least to resist the bubble,“ Obama later told me. “It was a way for me to, every day, remember that what I was doing was not about me. It wasn’t about the Washington calculus. It wasn’t about the political scoreboard. It was about the people who were out there living their lives, who were either looking for some help or angry about how I was screwing something up.“
And why should the president be the only one reading 10 letters a day? What about everyone else in the West Wing? Surely Obama’s advisers and senior staff could benefit from seeing this material.
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Fiona Reeves, an OPC staffer who soon became the office’s director, developed a distribution list, kept adding to it. Letters to the president, dozens of them, just popping into people’s inboxes. Why not? And not just the 10LADs—the president’s 10 letters a day—but also others from the sample piles. “We send out batches of letters we think are striking,“ she said. At first she worried about being an annoyance, but then she got bold. “I hope people read them; that’s why I spam them. But I mean, they don’t have to read them.“They did. Soon people started asking why they weren’t on the distribution list. The people in OPC came to know which people in the West Wing were particularly tuned in to the letters. The OPC staff came to regard these people as special agents, ambassadors, and they had a name for them: Friends of the Mail.”
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