#calling the bluff

[indizombie]

In 2009, researchers Kanchi Kohli and Manju Menon combed through environmental compliance reports submitted by 223 projects, a sample selected out of some 4,000 large projects approved till then, such as coal mines, dams, irrigation, big industries, real estate and township projects. Aptly titled Calling The Bluff, their study found over 90% of the projects had not complied with conditions that came with the clearance, like planting forests, for example. "The government believes it is not its role to enforce compliance. They just try to nudge projects into doing the right thing," says Dr Menon, a senior fellow at the Delhi-based think tank Centre for Policy Research. "The system isn't working."

Soutik Biswas, ‘The environment law that mobilised two million Indians’, BBC

[setsu-sama]

Playing Cards

I am enslaved to a man who does not love me, at least, he professed that he did not. But people change, so I'm laying my cards down and calling his bluff. We're playing for keeps and our hearts are on the line. Who will win?

[angwe-blog]

As soon as the data shows that the average black student has the same opportunity to live and learn and hope and dream in America as the average white student, and as soon as the data shows that the average poor kid drinks water just as clean and breathes air just as pure as the average rich kid, then educators like me will no longer cry foul when this society sends us children and says: Get them all over the same hurdle.

And so I as an educator now say to a nation exactly what it has said to me for years: No excuses! Just get results.

Disaggregating data forced me to pay attention to minority students. Let’s force society to agonize over equality like teachers now agonize over test scores!

Sh** just got real.