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I am so glad you published this Andy. The topic if crucial in any discussion about educating for social justice in a culture that relegates vocational education to the "loser track". My son is a member of the IBEW and a lineman for Georgia Power Co. and he sent this link to me to share with my colleagues in education. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0NwEFVUb-u0v Robert Lake On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 11:49 PM, Andy Blunden <ablunden@mira.net> wrote: > The issue of MCA 19(1) about to be published has a Featured Article by > Mike Rose: "Rethinking Remedial Education and the Academic-Vocational > Divide." If all goes as promised, Taylor & Francis should be offering it > for free download as of today. But a PDF is attached just in case! The > issue also contains commentaries on Mike Rose's article by Norton Grubb, > Kris Gutierrez, Sara Goldrick-Rab. > > The article is a scathing criticism of the US public education system, but > one which makes very specific suggestions for improvement based on a life > time of experience. It is also written in popularly accessible language > rather than the usual academic genre. Rather than the usual practice of > putting to a vote the article for discussion on xmca, it seemed crazy not > to simply nominate this one. So please see attachment. > > Andy > -- > ------------------------------**------------------------------** > ------------ > *Andy Blunden* > Joint Editor MCA: http://www.tandfonline.com/**toc/hmca20/18/1<http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/hmca20/18/1> > Home Page: http://home.mira.net/~andy/ > Book: http://www.brill.nl/default.**aspx?partid=227&pid=34857<http://www.brill.nl/default.aspx?partid=227&pid=34857> > > __________________________________________ > _____ > xmca mailing list > xmca@weber.ucsd.edu > http://dss.ucsd.edu/mailman/listinfo/xmca > > -- *Robert Lake Ed.D. *Assistant Professor Social Foundations of Education Dept. of Curriculum, Foundations, and Reading Georgia Southern University P. O. Box 8144 Phone: (912) 478-5125 Fax: (912) 478-5382 Statesboro, GA 30460 *Democracy must be born anew in every generation, and education is its midwife.* *-*John Dewey. __________________________________________ _____ xmca mailing list xmca@weber.ucsd.edu http://dss.ucsd.edu/mailman/listinfo/xmca