Social Network and Politics

Can Twitter Lead People to the Streets?

What are the limitations of social media in inciting political activism?

By Evgeny Morozov 

In this article, the writer Morozov points out that Internet is a media to inform people about politics and to reveals its ability to reach and involve millions of people. In this article, the writer includes social network like Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, etc and their use for political purposes and that people are paying attention too. Social network affects our life conventionally, or unconventionally.  He uses Obama's electoral juggernaut as a good example of how a rigid and highly centralized campaign manages to leverage the highly decentralized nature of the Internet to its great advantage.

Further, Morozov argues about mobilization with organization. He tells readers about the new ability of the web world to mobilize the public around certain issues. This does not necessarily automatically enhance democratic life, but however, non-democratic states have risks as well. I do agree upon his opinions about effective social change, and that it can’t succeed without getting citizen to participate in old school political processes. Signing online petitions and retweeting links to news article might give wrong impression to the young people.

      I found this article informative as it talks about Hillary Clinton, “civil society 2.0”; grassroots organizations around the world to use digital technology to tell their stories, build their memberships and support bases, and connect to their community of peers around the world. In this statement, I strongly agree with Hillary Clinton, “civil society 2.0”;  its remind me about 1^st amendment of the Bill of Rights,  “ Freedom Of Speech.” It is now time for public to decide on what they want to do. Do we want to push traditional organizations on which our forefather so extensively relied on or make better use of the digital tools convenient to us today? 

No Child Left Behind

As I was going through couple of topics, I found an article about No child left behind (NCLB). After I read this article, I found its interesting and worth reading it. First of all, what is No child left behind, what are its benefits, and how it will affects student, schools and teachers. Since the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) law took effect in 2002, it has had a sweeping impact on U.S. public school classrooms.  No child left Behind attempts to improve performance of American K-12 schools by increasing the standards of accountability for states, school districts, and schools, as well as providing parents more flexibility in choosing which schools their children will attend.

NCLB supports standards-based education reform, which is based on the belief that setting high standards and establishing measurable goals can improve individual outcomes in education. It affects what students are taught, the tests they take, and the training of their teachers and the way money is spent on education.

According to supporters, these goals help teachers and schools realize the significance and importance of the educational system and how it affects the nation. Opponents to this law base their objections to the accountability by stating that the punishments only hurt the schools more and do not contribute to the improvement of the students. If the schools and teachers do not live up to the accountability standards, they may choose to move their children to different schools in the area.

Reading this article tells us about the government being concern about improvement of Education system of United State of America? Even though, it sounds better for future of student but What about the schools which failure to meet NCLB's inflexible goals, and literally that school will be publicly labeled as failure.

No Child Left Behind