Thank you for the reminder not to do the sort of generalizing that
views with currency, those that circulate in popular
literature on education and the media, invite. I really do know better.
I am reminded of Angel's frequent references to what is scary about
e-mail. In talking we can self-correct, retrospectively or interactively,
in a way that allows for/contains/minimizes the _effects of_ contradictions,
inconsistencies, and adjustments in the
interrelations of our thinking/speaking. The _effects_ are the
result of our habitual mis-take of "what is said" for
"what a person thinks" in some more global terms - who that person IS, as
it were. As if we were coherent, self-knowing selves behind our
doings/sayings. On e-mail, adjustments are foregrounded and public.
Judy
> There highly effective schools and teachers of the former and
>some very bas examples of the latter. Lots of bad curriculum and teaching is
>covered up in high SES schools by the advantages of the pupils. See Mike
>Rose's book Possible Lives for some magnificient examples of successful
>teachers in low SES situations.
>Ken Goodman
Judy Diamondstone
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Rutgers University