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WireTap Magazine - Tools for Activists: Turning Privilege Disparities into Just and Sustainable Action

This new exercise can help organizers determine who in our community should be guiding the strategies and action for social justice work.

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What People Say When They Tweet - ReadWriteWeb

a discourse analysis of twitter talk

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The CEA Blog » Blog Archive » Leo Casey: A Nation At Risk

The relationship between education and the economy is far more complex and far more mediated than claimed by A Nation At Risk.

Tags: ANAR, economy, education on 2008-05-07 -All Annotations (0) -About

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The Myth of the "Culture of Poverty"

The most destructive tool of the culture of classism is deficit theory. In education, we often talk about the deficit perspective—defining students by their weaknesses rather than their strengths.

Tags: culture, class, poverty, achievement, Gorski on 2008-05-03 -All Annotations (0) -About

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Cato Unbound » Blog Archive » “A Nation at Risk” Twenty-Five Years Later

A belief in decline has led to irresponsibility in school reform.

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Gunnar Myrdal - Prize Lecture

awareness of the poverty in underdeveloped countries was bound to be morally disturbing in the Western world, where the ideal of greater equality has had an honored place in social philosophy.

Tags: poverty, colonialism, equality, Myrdal, history on 2008-04-27 -All Annotations (0) -About

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Against Competitiveness

Lending an even more noxious twist to the habit of seeing education in purely economic terms is the use of the word “competitiveness”

Tags: achievement, globalization, competition, capitalism, Kohn on 2008-04-24 and saved by2 people -All Annotations (0) -About

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» The Art of Changing the Brain: Interview with Dr. James Zull « Brain Fitness Revolution at SharpBrains

Learning is physical. Learning means the modification, growth, and pruning of our neurons, connections–called synapses– and neuronal networks, through experience.

Tags: brain, science, cognition, learning on 2008-04-24 and saved by2 people -All Annotations (0) -About

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Neil Postman: Five Things We Need to Know About Technological Change

Neil Postman passes along advice "from people we can trust" (Thoreau, Goethe, Socrates, Rabbi Hillel, Micah) and offers some of his own ideas about the "effects of technology on religious faith."

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Schools Matter: A Pre-K Test for Giftedness and Other Crimes Against Nature

test mania is no small thing

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What Does Test Prep Really Require? More Deep Curriculum Alignment Discoveries « In Service

list of reading skills/strategies that also serve as "test prep."

Tags: testing, curriculum, reading, skills, strategies, metacognition, blogs on 2008-04-12 -All Annotations (0) -About

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Beyond NCLB - Volume 22 No. 3 - Spring 2008 - Rethinking Schools Online

In addition to pushing for more funding, educators, civil rights groups, parents and communities must unite on a few key principles for structuring the version of ESEA that will replace NCLB.

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India: Disappearing the Poor

In the perpetual artificial sunshine of the technosphere, within the global gated community in which all the inhabitants are rich, the poor have already ceased to exist.

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TESL-EJ 11.4 -- Blogging in the Language Classroom: It Doesn't "Simply Happen"

...challenge due to schedule constraints, overflow of information, resistance from students, and constraints on educators and their institutions.

Tags: blogging, teacher_research, writing on 2008-04-08 and saved by6 people -All Annotations (0) -About

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HIgh Standards | Ohanian

Alignment: The battle cry of the corporate-politico-Standardisto alliance that makes its rounds under the banner of education reform.

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The Craftsman - Richard Sennett - Book Review - New York Times

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Kurt Vonnegut | Salon Books

This is what makes "Armageddon in Retrospect" such a gripping read: The volume demonstrates Vonnegut's mind-boggling evolution as a writer, the manner in which he learned how to cloak his rage in hilarity, to cop to his immense despair without surrendering to it.

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Marian Wright Edelman: Honoring King is Not Enough - Politics on The Huffington Post

Too many of us would rather celebrate than follow Dr. King. Some of us have enshrined Dr. King the dreamer, but have ignored Dr. King the disturber of all unjust peace.

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The Games Teachers Play - Education Articles

...great teachers continue to create environments where their students want to be and to learn. The answer to bad teaching is better teaching, not another worksheet, get tough movement or quick fix.

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