American Journal of Sociology review of "Schools as Imagined Communities"
I just found online the book review of Schools as Imagined Communities that Scott Davies wrote in the American Journal of Sociology. It’s positive, and it includes the following in the conclusion: As a whole, the book offers sociologists several themes to ponder, such as the uneasy relation between ideals of school community and formal equality, […]
Social annotation for teaching how to read difficult material
A few days ago, I raved about the possibilities of social annotation. What I barely touched were the teaching purposes of social annotation. Let me provide an example from my masters course in social foundations of education. Below is the root to a discussion thread over the past week on the Seattle and Louisville desegregation […]
The curse of system transitions
In several cases I’m aware of, an academic library’s transition to a new website has forgotten to include a link to an acquisition-request form, or the location of the form was incredibly obscure. This is true at USF in the last transition and in a few other cases. I’m sure that the omission/usability flub is […]
Diane Ravitch’s disillusionment
From Diane Ravitch’s latest entry in Bridging Differences: Now that the president and the U.S. Department of Education have made it their business to show that federal legislation can and will raise test scores, every release of NAEP data is accompanied by a press statement from the U.S. Secretary of Education that magnifies slight gains […]
"Man in Black" (Halloween version)
By Sherman Dorn on October 31, 2007
After the series of photoshopped education “costumes” on Eduwonkette, I should confess that I didn’t put on any costume, or so I thought when I went into work. An undergrad work-study student showed up as a flower child, and another coworker came in orange and black. I thought for a second, looked down at my […]
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