Re: [xmca] the Chicago Miracle

[ERIC.RAMBERG@spps.org]

I have great trust that the theories, methodologies and practices 
discussed on XMCA have profound impact upon those instructer/student 
relationships impacted by such.  I for one have grown more as a 
practitioner because of what I learn from XMCA.

My comment wasn't snide towards XMCA but rather a statement against the 
oxymoronic market based slogans that politicians throw about regarding 
education.

I do what I do in my small position based upon the benefit for the 
students that I am humbled to get to know.  That is it.  The race to the 
top will not improve their lives just as no child left behind did not 
improve the lives of those who came before them.

eric




mike cole <lchcmike@gmail.com>
Sent by: xmca-bounces@weber.ucsd.edu
01/22/2010 10:33 AM
Please respond to lchcmike; Please respond to "eXtended Mind, Culture, 
Activity"

 
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We are discussing deep, structural, ideologically fortified, practices.
mike

On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 8:18 AM, Peter Smagorinsky <smago@uga.edu> wrote:

> The reason I pasted in these excerpts is they show that it's clear the
> program isn't working as planned, and yet, they choose to believe it's
> working nonetheless. So much for the infallibility of data in efforts 
like
> this.
>
> Peter Smagorinsky
> Professor of English Education
> Department of Language and Literacy Education
> The University of Georgia
> 125 Aderhold Hall
> Athens, GA 30602
> smago@uga.edu
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: xmca-bounces@weber.ucsd.edu [mailto:xmca-bounces@weber.ucsd.edu] 
On
> Behalf Of ERIC.RAMBERG@spps.org
> Sent: Friday, January 22, 2010 10:59 AM
> To: eXtended Mind, Culture, Activity
> Subject: Re: [xmca] the Chicago Miracle
>
> Peter:
>
> It would in fact appear that Duncan's "Race to the Top"  may indeed 
leave
> some children behind.
>
> eric
>
>
>
>
> "Peter Smagorinsky" <smago@uga.edu>
> Sent by: xmca-bounces@weber.ucsd.edu
> 01/21/2010 04:24 PM
> Please respond to "eXtended Mind, Culture, Activity"
>
>
>        To:     "'eXtended Mind, Culture,       Activity'"
> <xmca@weber.ucsd.edu>
>        cc:
>        Subject:        [xmca] the Chicago Miracle
>
>
> Six years after Mayor Richard Daley
> <
> http://www.chicagotribune.com/topic/politics/government/richard-m.-daley-PE
> PLT007475.topic>  launched a bold initiative to close down and remake
> failing schools, Renaissance 2010 has done little to improve the
> educational
> performance of the city's school system, according to a Tribune analysis
> of
> 2009 state test data.
>
> The moribund test scores follow other less than enthusiastic findings
> about
> Renaissance 2010 -- that displaced students ended up mostly in other
> low-performing schools and that mass closings led to youth violence as
> rival
> gang members ended up in the same classrooms. Together, they suggest the
> initiative hasn't lived up to its promise by this, its target year.
>
> "We haven't looked at all the data, but our belief is that Renaissance
> 2010
> dramatically improved the educational options in communities across
> Chicago," said Peter Cunningham, Duncan's spokesman, who followed him 
from
> Chicago to Washington
> <
> http://www.chicagotribune.com/topic/us/washington-PLGEO100104900000000.topi
> c> . "We believe that it is contributing to Chicago's overall success.
> Renaissance 2010 and Race to the Top both reflect a willingness to be
> bold,
> hold yourself to higher standards and push for dramatic change, not
> incremental change."
>
>
> http://www.chicagotribune.com:80/news/education/chi-renaissance-2010-17-jan1
> 7,0,3877012.story<http://www.chicagotribune.com:80/news/education/chi-renaissance-2010-17-jan1%0A7,0,3877012.story>
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