Judy and Bill-- I am responding on mca, but I assume this note will
leak through to the AERA sig list.
1. The proposal to let exec committee members submit papers when they
are not at an unfair advantage seems totally justifiable. Exec com
members are the most committed folks in AERA, so why shouldnt their
voice be heard, subject to the review criteria you specify.
2. With respect to the issue of mentoring, I would deeply regret restricting
the suggestions to AERA. Education is O-N-E (as in odin, uno, etc) form
of activity we need to understand and which we should be mentoring junior
and,,,,,,, ahem senior, participants... but, despite W's strong committment
(right?) to leaving no kid behind (why leave them when it is so much easier
just to give a timely push?) from the xmca perspective it is extraordinarily
unhelpful to substitute the part for the whole. AERA is only one of the venues
in which our members are active. So why restrict tutoring measures to that
one organization (other than the fact that you folks are carrying this particular load)?? Too much work to open up to human development, which, so far as
I can tell, is not restricted to those activities which are the focus of
AERA?
Note. I have offered to start organizing an international course. I have
received no response to that offer. Its a mistake? People are worried about
their electic bills? Its summer? Killing each other comes more natrurally
than cultivating each other?
Perplexed in so california where the fog is there in the morning and evening
to save us against global warming. But where warm feelings surive (how?).
mie
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