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Sounds like Darwins process of natural selection. On 18 December 2010 07:45, Andy Blunden <ablunden@mira.net> wrote: > I'd be interested in talking about this on xmca: > Someone Has to Fail: The Zero-Sum Game of Public Schooling > http://www.tcrecord.org/Content.asp?ContentID=16229 > > It is stating the obvious that social inequality is not within the power of > the public school system to solve, or even mitigate, but it is worth > thinking what strategy progressive teachers /can/ follow. Let us agree that > putting a safety net under the most disadvantaged is something everyone > would agree with, what else? I would have thought de-coupling educational > quaification and appreciation of culture is something worth looking at. What > do others on the list think about this issue? > > Andy > mike cole wrote: > >> Several of the articles on show below appear of interest to various >> xmcaonaughts. >> mike >> >> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- >> From: Teachers College Record <no-reply@tcrecord.org> >> Date: Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 12:01 PM >> Subject: Transitioning From an Innovative Elementary to a Conventional >> High >> School >> To: Recipient <mcole@ucsd.edu> >> >> >> [image: Title] >> [image: Subscribe Today] <http://www.tcrecord.org/Subscriptions.asp> >> [image: transparent 13] >> Freely-Available This Week >> Articles >> Smuggling Authentic Learning Into the School Context: Transitioning From >> an >> Innovative Elementary to a Conventional High >> School<http://www.tcrecord.org/Content.asp?ContentID=15227> >> by Renée DePalma, Eugene Matusov & Mark Smith >> Analyzing the discourse of eighth-grade graduates from an innovative >> elementary school as they transition to conventional high schools revealed >> distinct response patterns characterizing concurrent projects of >> self-actualization and institutional achievement. Our analysis suggests >> that >> a certain critical ambivalence toward credentialism and competition can be >> part of a healthy strategy for school success, particularly for those from >> marginalized groups who do not wholly buy into the (predominantly White >> and >> middle-class) historically rooted traditions of conventional schooling. >> >> Designing Transparent Teacher Evaluation: The Role of Oversight Panels >> for >> Professional Accountability< >> http://www.tcrecord.org/Content.asp?ContentID=15053> >> by Jennifer Goldstein >> This article explores a policy intended to improve the quality of >> teaching >> by improving the quality of teacher evaluation. It examines a Peer >> Assistance and Review (PAR) program, and specifically one aspect of the >> program-its oversight panel-asking how an oversight panel alters the >> practice of teacher evaluation. The core argument of the article is that >> oversight panels have the potential to fundamentally alter the >> transparency >> of the teacher evaluation process and, in turn, the nature of >> accountability. >> >> >> Book Reviews >> Multiliteracies in Motion: Current Theory and >> Practice<http://www.tcrecord.org/Content.asp?ContentID=16226> >> by David R. Cole and Darren Lee Pullen (eds.) >> reviewed by William Kist >> ------------------------------ >> Citizenship Education and Social Development in >> Zambia<http://www.tcrecord.org/Content.asp?ContentID=16227> >> by Ali A. Abdi, Edward Shizha, and Lee Ellis (eds.) >> reviewed by Monisha Bajaj >> ------------------------------ >> Persuading Fred: An essay review of recent books by Stanley Fish, Louis >> Menand, and Martha >> Nussbaum<http://www.tcrecord.org/Content.asp?ContentID=16228> >> by >> reviewed by James Donald >> ------------------------------ >> Someone Has to Fail: The Zero-Sum Game of Public >> Schooling<http://www.tcrecord.org/Content.asp?ContentID=16229> >> by David F. Labaree >> reviewed by Floyd M. Hammack >> >> <http://www.tcrecord.org/voice.asp> >> Henry Braun discusses his paper, co-authored with Irwin Kirsch and >> Kentaro >> Yamamoto, "An Experimental Study of the Effects of Monetary Incentives on >> Performance on the 12th-Grade NAEP Reading >> Assessment."<http://www.tcrecord.org/content.asp?contentid=16008> >> Commentaries >> In Praise of Slow Reading< >> http://www.tcrecord.org/Content.asp?ContentID=16238> >> by Thomas Newkirk >> This commentary argues against the high valuation schools place on reading >> speed, particularly on high sakes tests like the SAT. In penalizing slower >> readers, these and other tests put at a disadvantage students who approach >> their reading in a deliberate and thorough way. The ideal should not be >> speed but the *tiempo guisto*, the pace at which we are most attentive and >> effective-and this pace will vary depending on the individual and the >> task. >> 2010 NSSE Yearbooks and Call for Proposals for Future >> Yearbooks<http://www.tcrecord.org/Content.asp?ContentID=16120> >> by >> The editors of the Teachers College Record announce the yearbook topics >> for >> 2010 and issue a call for new proposals. >> >> >> >> ------------------------------ >> To unsubscribe from this newsletter, please browse to: >> https://www.tcrecord.org/MyAccount.asp?uid=100293&pwd=1384520 >> __________________________________________ >> _____ >> xmca mailing list >> xmca@weber.ucsd.edu >> http://dss.ucsd.edu/mailman/listinfo/xmca >> >> >> >> > > -- > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > *Andy Blunden* > Joint Editor MCA: http://lchc.ucsd.edu/MCA/Journal/ > Home Page: http://home.mira.net/~andy/ <http://home.mira.net/%7Eandy/> > Videos: http://vimeo.com/user3478333/videos > Book: http://www.brill.nl/default.aspx?partid=227&pid=34857 > MIA: http://www.marxists.org > > __________________________________________ > _____ > xmca mailing list > xmca@weber.ucsd.edu > http://dss.ucsd.edu/mailman/listinfo/xmca > -- Patrick Jaki Forced Migration Studies Programme University of The Witwatersrand. 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