Re: [xmca] Someone Has to Fail: The Zero-Sum Game of Public Schooling

[Patrick Jaki <patrick.jaki@gmail.com>]

Sounds like Darwins process of natural selection.

On 18 December 2010 07:45, Andy Blunden <ablunden@mira.net> wrote:

> I'd be interested in talking about this on xmca:
> Someone Has to Fail: The Zero-Sum Game of Public Schooling
> http://www.tcrecord.org/Content.asp?ContentID=16229
>
> It is stating the obvious that social inequality is not within the power of
> the public school system to solve, or even mitigate, but it is worth
> thinking what strategy progressive teachers /can/ follow. Let us agree that
> putting a safety net under the most disadvantaged is something everyone
> would agree with, what else? I would have thought de-coupling educational
> quaification and appreciation of culture is something worth looking at. What
> do others on the list think about this issue?
>
> Andy
> mike cole wrote:
>
>> Several of the articles on show below appear of interest to various
>> xmcaonaughts.
>> mike
>>
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>> From: Teachers College Record <no-reply@tcrecord.org>
>> Date: Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 12:01 PM
>> Subject: Transitioning From an Innovative Elementary to a Conventional
>> High
>> School
>> To: Recipient <mcole@ucsd.edu>
>>
>>
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>>  [image: Subscribe Today] <http://www.tcrecord.org/Subscriptions.asp>
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>>    Freely-Available This Week
>> Articles
>>  Smuggling Authentic Learning Into the School Context: Transitioning From
>> an
>> Innovative Elementary to a Conventional High
>> School<http://www.tcrecord.org/Content.asp?ContentID=15227>
>> by Renée DePalma, Eugene Matusov & Mark Smith
>>  Analyzing the discourse of eighth-grade graduates from an innovative
>> elementary school as they transition to conventional high schools revealed
>> distinct response patterns characterizing concurrent projects of
>> self-actualization and institutional achievement. Our analysis suggests
>> that
>> a certain critical ambivalence toward credentialism and competition can be
>> part of a healthy strategy for school success, particularly for those from
>> marginalized groups who do not wholly buy into the (predominantly White
>> and
>> middle-class) historically rooted traditions of conventional schooling.
>>
>>  Designing Transparent Teacher Evaluation: The Role of Oversight Panels
>> for
>> Professional Accountability<
>> http://www.tcrecord.org/Content.asp?ContentID=15053>
>> by Jennifer Goldstein
>>  This article explores a policy intended to improve the quality of
>> teaching
>> by improving the quality of teacher evaluation. It examines a Peer
>> Assistance and Review (PAR) program, and specifically one aspect of the
>> program-its oversight panel-asking how an oversight panel alters the
>> practice of teacher evaluation. The core argument of the article is that
>> oversight panels have the potential to fundamentally alter the
>> transparency
>> of the teacher evaluation process and, in turn, the nature of
>> accountability.
>>
>>
>>  Book Reviews
>>  Multiliteracies in Motion: Current Theory and
>> Practice<http://www.tcrecord.org/Content.asp?ContentID=16226>
>>  by David R. Cole and Darren Lee Pullen (eds.)
>> reviewed by William Kist
>>  ------------------------------
>>  Citizenship Education and Social Development in
>> Zambia<http://www.tcrecord.org/Content.asp?ContentID=16227>
>>  by Ali A. Abdi, Edward Shizha, and Lee Ellis (eds.)
>> reviewed by Monisha Bajaj
>> ------------------------------
>>  Persuading Fred: An essay review of recent books by Stanley Fish, Louis
>> Menand, and Martha
>> Nussbaum<http://www.tcrecord.org/Content.asp?ContentID=16228>
>>  by
>> reviewed by James Donald
>> ------------------------------
>>  Someone Has to Fail: The Zero-Sum Game of Public
>> Schooling<http://www.tcrecord.org/Content.asp?ContentID=16229>
>>  by David F. Labaree
>> reviewed by Floyd M. Hammack
>>
>>  <http://www.tcrecord.org/voice.asp>
>>  Henry Braun discusses his paper, co-authored with Irwin Kirsch and
>> Kentaro
>> Yamamoto, "An Experimental Study of the Effects of Monetary Incentives on
>> Performance on the 12th-Grade NAEP Reading
>> Assessment."<http://www.tcrecord.org/content.asp?contentid=16008>
>> Commentaries
>>  In Praise of Slow Reading<
>> http://www.tcrecord.org/Content.asp?ContentID=16238>
>> by Thomas Newkirk
>> This commentary argues against the high valuation schools place on reading
>> speed, particularly on high sakes tests like the SAT. In penalizing slower
>> readers, these and other tests put at a disadvantage students who approach
>> their reading in a deliberate and thorough way. The ideal should not be
>> speed but the *tiempo guisto*, the pace at which we are most attentive and
>> effective-and this pace will vary depending on the individual and the
>> task.
>>  2010 NSSE Yearbooks and Call for Proposals for Future
>> Yearbooks<http://www.tcrecord.org/Content.asp?ContentID=16120>
>> by
>> The editors of the Teachers College Record announce the yearbook topics
>> for
>> 2010 and issue a call for new proposals.
>>
>>
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