A twofer on Delaware student program and social justice, or "Let’s not confuse institutional prerogatives with students’ propensity to make mistakes"
I normally don’t waste bytes just to point to someone else’s blog and say, “What (s)he said!” In this case, though, Timothy Burke’s engagingly garrulous entry on the University of Delaware student orientation controversy serves double-duty to describe the obvious about the University of Delaware program and also help explain my discomfort with official statements by […]
NCLB reauthorization dead until 2008
One Nevada newspaper is report that the Senate Won’t Take Up NCLB this year (hat tip: Michele McLaughlin). This wasn’t hard to predict, to be honest. Once we get into 2008, the legislative calendar will become increasingly bogged down with other matters, and while individual legislators (including chairs) may have an incentive to move bills, […]
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 […]