Voila! Article attached. mike On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 6:03 AM, mike cole <lchcmike@gmail.com> wrote: > I have lots of questions, too, Nacho and Peter. Including the general > endorsement attributed to Eugene Garcia who is well known in his > championship of bilingual education and development of Latino kids. > Lets see if we can find the published papers. > mike > > > On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 3:16 AM, Peter Smagorinsky <smago@uga.edu> wrote: > >> So, I'm wondering, by what measure are these kids determined to be >> cognitively behind? The author of the study sounds Anglo, and Luis Moll >> has >> argued for decades that conventional US school measurements overlook the >> sophisticated cognitive work accomplished in Mexican-American community >> life, e.g., distilling medicine from crickets, repairing machinery, and >> otherwise spinning straw into gold in the face of poverty. Might there be >> the sort of mismatch between cultural knowledge and research measurement >> that Mike Cole has brought to my attention for many years? One lesson I've >> learned from Mike is that if kids are doing poorly on tasks, then change >> the >> task and see what happens. Is the mismeasurement of man and woman at work >> here? >> >> 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 mike cole >> Sent: Wednesday, October 21, 2009 10:14 PM >> To: eXtended Mind, Culture, Activity; Bud Mehan; Olga vasquez >> Subject: [xmca] Fwd: NYTimes.com: Hispanic Immigrants' Children Fall >> Behind >> Peers Early, Study Finds >> >> NY Times story with implications for many of us. >> mike >> >> --- >> >> [image: The New York Times] <http://www.nytimes.com/> [image: >> E-mail >> This] >> < >> http://www.nytimes.com/adx/bin/adx_click.html?type=goto&opzn&page=www.nytim >> >> es.com/yr/mo/day/us&pos=TopRight-EmailThis&sn2=32a8c8f0/d3af15b2&sn1=ff06f61 >> >> 2/a3286cd9&camp=foxsearch2009_emailtools_1011078b_nyt5&ad=amelia_88x31_b_v2& >> goto=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Efoxsearchlight%2Ecom%2Famelia<http://es.com/yr/mo/day/us&pos=TopRight-EmailThis&sn2=32a8c8f0/d3af15b2&sn1=ff06f61%0A2/a3286cd9&camp=foxsearch2009_emailtools_1011078b_nyt5&ad=amelia_88x31_b_v2&%0Agoto=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Efoxsearchlight%2Ecom%2Famelia> >> > >> *This page was sent to you by: * mcole@ucsd.edu >> >> * US * | October 21, 2009 >> * Hispanic Immigrants' Children Fall Behind Peers Early, Study Finds >> <http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/21/us/21latina.html?emc=eta1> * >> By JAMES C. McKINLEY Jr. >> The children tend to start life on intellectual par with other American >> children, but by age 2 they begin to lag in linguistic and cognitive >> skills, >> a U.C. Berkeley study shows. >> Advertisement >> *Gentlemen Broncos* Starring Michael Angarano, Jemaine Clement, Sam >> Rockwell, Mike White, and Jennifer Coolidge. In Theaters 10/30 >> Click here to view >> trailer< >> http://www.nytimes.com/adx/bin/adx_click.html?type=goto&opzn&page=ww >> >> w.nytimes.com/yr/mo/day/us&pos=Center1&sn2=127d678e/ffa80c15&sn1=3e5e623f/81 >> >> ba537&camp=foxsearch2009_emailtools_1011078g-nyt5&ad=GentlemenBroncos_120x60 >> _g&goto=http://www.foxsearchlight.com/gentlemenbroncos<http://w.nytimes.com/yr/mo/day/us&pos=Center1&sn2=127d678e/ffa80c15&sn1=3e5e623f/81%0Aba537&camp=foxsearch2009_emailtools_1011078g-nyt5&ad=GentlemenBroncos_120x60%0A_g&goto=http://www.foxsearchlight.com/gentlemenbroncos> >> > >> < >> http://www.nytimes.com/adx/bin/adx_click.html?type=goto&opzn&page=www.nytim >> >> es.com/yr/mo/day/us&pos=Center1&sn2=127d678e/ffa80c15&sn1=3e5e623f/81ba537&c >> >> amp=foxsearch2009_emailtools_1011078g-nyt5&ad=GentlemenBroncos_120x60_g&goto >> =http://www.foxsearchlight.com/gentlemenbroncos<http://es.com/yr/mo/day/us&pos=Center1&sn2=127d678e/ffa80c15&sn1=3e5e623f/81ba537&c%0Aamp=foxsearch2009_emailtools_1011078g-nyt5&ad=GentlemenBroncos_120x60_g&goto%0A=http://www.foxsearchlight.com/gentlemenbroncos> >> > >> >> Copyright 2009 >> <http://www.nytimes.com/ref/membercenter/help/copyright.html> The New >> York >> Times Company <http://www.nytco.com/> | Privacy >> Policy<http://www.nytimes.com/ref/membercenter/help/privacy.html> >> _______________________________________________ >> xmca mailing list >> xmca@weber.ucsd.edu >> http://dss.ucsd.edu/mailman/listinfo/xmca >> >> _______________________________________________ >> xmca mailing list >> xmca@weber.ucsd.edu >> http://dss.ucsd.edu/mailman/listinfo/xmca >> > >
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