RE: [xmca] James Banks' talk / LIFE Center

Thanks (again), Lois. The challenge, I think is to find foundations that --
at this dubious moment in history -- are in any way interested in arts and
culture! From long, first-hand experience I know that the W.T. Grant
Foundation is not . . . And as an unfortunate example of the shift in
priorities over the past few years, the Rockefeller Foundation has totally
eliminated arts-culture from its 'portfolio' (after being engaged in one way
or another for many years/decades). But there surely are still some
(private) sources to be 'hunted' . . . Frank

-----Original Message-----
From: xmca-bounces@weber.ucsd.edu [mailto:xmca-bounces@weber.ucsd.edu] On
Behalf Of Lois Holzman
Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2008 6:18 PM
To: eXtended Mind, Culture, Activity
Subject: Re: [xmca] James Banks' talk / LIFE Center

Frank asked for some examples of private funders of other than (or in
addition to) science/math youth/afterschool funding.
The best thing is to check t Philanthropy News Digest, which lists,
RFPs daily.
http://foundationcenter.org/pnd/rfp/

Here are just a few examples of foundations, from large to small.

W. T. GRant Foundation
http://www.wtgrantfoundation.org/

The Wallace Foundation
http://www.wallacefoundation.org

W. K. Kellogg Foundation
http://www.wkkf.org/

The Robert Bowne Foundation
http://www.robertbownefoundation.org/

Nellie Mae Education Foundation
http://www.nmefdn.org/

Sundance Family Foundation
http://www.sundancefamilyfoundation.org/

Happy hunting!
Lois

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On Apr 2, 2008, at 3:41 PM, Frank Kessel wrote:

> LOIS: Would you give some e.g.s of such (private) funders?
> Thanks. FRANK
> (KESSEL)
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: xmca-bounces@weber.ucsd.edu [mailto:xmca-
> bounces@weber.ucsd.edu] On
> Behalf Of Lois Holzman
> Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2008 12:54 PM
> To: mcole@weber.ucsd.edu; eXtended Mind, Culture, Activity
> Subject: Re: [xmca] James Banks' talk / LIFE Center
>
> For sure. and yet there are private funders that focus heavily on the
> arts and culture.
> Lois
>
> On Apr 1, 2008, at 8:04 PM, Mike Cole wrote:
>
>> That informal learning settings deserve a lot more attention is easy
>> to be
>> me to agree with, Lois, But NSF appears to concentrate its money in
>> the
>> informal math/science program
>> almost entirely in such places as museums, exploratoria, etc. Maybe
>> some of
>> the high tech web based approach are better funded, I am not sure.
>> Community
>> centers under
>> community control do not appear attractive venues for research money
>> and,
>> for the most part, for researchers.
>>
>> Note. This issue may be related to the "evidence based research"
>> problem
>> discussed in other threads.
>> mike
>>
>> On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 9:38 AM, David Shaenfield <dshaen@yahoo.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> I was at the Banks' talk and got the same message. The panel spoke
>>> on the
>>> consensus report recently released by the Learning in Informal and
>>> Formal
>>> Environments (LIFE) center.
>>> Principles:
>>> http://life-slc.org/?p=613
>>> Details:
>>> http://life-slc.org/?p=498
>>>
>>> take care,
>>> David
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message ----
>>> From: Lois Holzman <lholzman@eastsideinstitute.org>
>>> To: "eXtended Mind, Culture, Activity" <xmca@weber.ucsd.edu>
>>> Sent: Monday, March 31, 2008 11:54:09 AM
>>> Subject: Re: [xmca] What new and interesting?
>>>
>>> I don't know if it qualifies as a model, but there is also what is
>>> referred to as supplemental education by Gordon and his colleagues,
>>> and complementary learning by the Harvard Family Research Group-the
>>> basic idea being that it is outside of school opportunities that
>>> make
>>> the difference. The range is pretty big-quality structured programs
>>> like The Fifth Dimension, museum going, family trips, camps,
>>> cultural
>>> and sports events and lessons, etc. The philosophical writings on
>>> identity and race and cosmopolitanism by Appiah (which I like very
>>> much) also resonate here.
>>> I wasn't there, but I heard that James Banks' talk at AERA suggested
>>> that if kids are learning outside of school more than in school
>>> maybe
>>> ed researchers should pay attention. Can someone who heard his talk
>>> fill in (and correct me if I got it wrong)?
>>> Lois
>>>
>>> On Mar 31, 2008, at 10:45 AM, ERIC.RAMBERG@spps.org wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> The big push in american public schools is to "close the
>>>> achievement
>>>> gap."
>>>> This means that there is a discrepancy in achievement when test
>>>> scores of
>>>> one racial group are compared with another racial group. What is
>>>> it
>>>> that
>>>> we know about the cause of this and how many different answers have
>>>> been
>>>> given in trying to explain it? Are we using the correct tool for
>>>> measuring
>>>> the achievement gap? We have Feuerstein's model, we have Freier's
>>>> model
>>>> and then we have the NCLB model. Seeing as the first two models
>>>> are
>>>> outside the circle of funding it is obvious what model will be
>>>> provided the
>>>> public schools in the U.S. My new and interesting thought is that
>>>> given
>>>> the reality of how public schools are funded and that NCLB will not
>>>> go away
>>>> any time soon, how can the 5th dimension research be expanded so it
>>>> can
>>>> have influence on closing the achievement gap?
>>>>
>>>> respectfully,
>>>>
>>>> eric
>>>>
>>>> P.S. Paula I hope you choose to introduce your new research soon.
>>>>
>>>>
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