A lens on the week in Ed: July 2011, iss. 1 -
Another week's re-cap of ed-related content via symphily:
- Largest teachers' union endorses Obama (w/ some grumbling from rank & file...) - t.co/QZpsvg6 [ #edchat #unions / @NEAToday ]
- Renting access: E-phemeral e-books - t.co/hhpE63G [ #edtech #loveHE #highered ]
- Texas Dean pushes back at 'breakthrough [business-oriented] solutions' - t.co/SvFtWrm [ #loveHE #neoliberalism #highered ]
- New study on childbearing & education offers surprising findings - t.co/dJnM1l7 [ #edchat #sociology #anthropos #parenting ]
- Second thoughts: (Re)Considering the value of research papers - t.co/qLo6r6c [ #edchat #loveHE #lingua #educhat #sschat ]
- Trends in scholarship on child soldiering over the past decade - t.co/q43I029 [ #sociology #anthropos #culture #academe #loveHE ]
- Canadian school trustees gather in Ottawa - t.co/8PzXC8W [ #CanEd #BCed #ABed {via @jsteffenhagen}]
- Surprised? || Atlanta cheating scandal unveiled by reporters - t.co/ZFSHO1X [ #edchat #educhat #atlanta #assessment #complicity ]
- UK: MoD spends 3X $ for top officers' children 2 attend elite private schools as it does compensating injured soldiers - t.co/9qd4NYx
- Considering the spectrum of Republican ignorance - t.co/ngiLZ1R [ #edchat #p2 #topprogs #tlot #tcot #educhat #politics ]
- Student learning and teachers' performance in America - t.co/9q7gmFZ [ #edchat #educhat #assessment ]
- Who's minding the children? - t.co/JYgTk7r [ #culture #anthropos #sociology #bibliophilia #parenting #edchat #elemchat ]
- Summer pro-d: New Teacher Boot Camp week 1 - Using Wordle - t.co/MUSSPOp [ #edtech #pedagogy #edchat ]
- UK: Following deregulation & amid massive cutbacks to ed-funding, for-profit universities set to expand - t.co/TR8iAdj [ #loveHE ]
- BC: "Spotty" discipline records at BC College of Teachers? - t.co/YozAsfo [ #BC #BCed #BCnews #bureaucracyfail {via @jsteffenhagen}]
- Communicating about higher education - t.co/F3l8o6x [ #loveHE #highered ]
- In human's abyss: On Giorgio Agamben's philosophy - t.co/DhuQxAm [ #philosophy #academe {attn. @hollmanlozano}]
- To friend, follow, or connect? - t.co/Xq0yzkJ [ #edchat #edtech #educhat #loveHE #highered #sociology ]
- Talks of #Medicare cuts worry med schools - t.co/e1I8fZy [ #loveHE #highered #health #austerity #neoliberalism ]
- Why is a touch on the arm so persuasive? - t.co/ZvYwvCk [ #sociology #anthropos #edchat ]
- US teachers' union [suffering from Stockholm syndrome?] endorses Obama 2012 - t.co/04eyoh3 [ @NEAToday #edchat #unions #complicity ]
- Teach for American and me: A failed courtship - t.co/AheD799 [ #edchat #educhat / @Teachforamerica ]
- Regional variation in educational levels of US immigrants - t.co/5Y4FpHW [ #sociology #edchat #anthropos ]
- Student resistance, paralysis & rage - t.co/NDSJMm8 [ #edchat #educhat #sociology ]
- Private schools boom in Germany - t.co/XzkPfFP [ #euro #DE #edchat #capitalism #neoliberalism ]
- New school & medical center in Riverside, California to remain closed - t.co/rOBtecb [ #edchat #econ #austerity ]
- First as tragedy, then as farce: || NEA endorses Obama's re-election - t.co/qlRlBYs [ #edchat #complicity #educhat / @NEAToday ]
- (Re)Considering gold stars and grades - t.co/4dEOvuB [ #edchat #elemchat #educhat #pedagogy {via @joe_bower}]
- Romainian school system flunks test amid cheating - t.co/Rm8mZhL [ #euro #edchat #educhat #complicity #assessment ]
- Is It time to stop lying to students and parents? - t.co/n7uTebk [ #assessment #edchat #educhat ]
- NEA approves teacher evaluation & accountability policy - t.co/dvzlOKE [ #edchat #neoliberalism / @NEAToday {via @jsteffenhagen}]
- Oral history, unprotected? - t.co/TCs0Usk [ #lawfare #loveHE #highered #anthropos #culture #history ]
- More tenured terminations at U. of Louisiana - t.co/C5rmwMr [ #loveHE #highered ]
- 1 in 6 children "streamed" in England - t.co/w1DJBqn [ #UK #edchat #classism #educhat #UKed #anthropos #euro ]
- Child poverty in US approaches 25% - t.co/UGVkWUF [ #sociology #edchat #educhat #elemchat ]
- Peer pressure makes people form false memories - t.co/X33Qo6B [ #sociology #cogsci #edchat ]
- BC's only autism school holds its first graduation - t.co/ouyO1tH [ #BCed ]
- Apple deal expected to bring ipads to more BC schools - t.co/qlXgQlo [ #BCed {via @jsteffenhagen}]
- BC: Details of September job action plan in schools - t.co/4ci72u4 [ #BCed {via @jsteffenhagen}]
- BC: Improve services for special-needs children, say's BC's watchdog - t.co/FvGY0UP [ #BCed {via @jsteffenhagen}]
- Strike looms, but teachers/employers take a break from bargaining - t.co/HH7iwzK [ #BCed #BCpoli #BCnews {via @jsteffenhagen}]
- Are technological devices stunting the learning curve? - t.co/hQm1EWr [ #edchat #educhat #edtech #elemchat #sociology #parenting ]
- One public school teacher's thoughts on graduation 2011 - t.co/WgWdy1i [ #edchat #educhat #grads ]
- Cooking up a new curriculum - t.co/UndPdsQ [ #edchat #edreform #educhat ]
- Teacher layoffs: What they mean for you & your kids - t.co/bj7ETTf [ #edchat #educhat #news #austerity #classism ]
- Lessons from Finland: Teacher Ed & training - t.co/UsP2LQg [ #edchat #educhat #education ]
- DIY movement in science: Can it fix a crisis in education? - t.co/TQkhFX1 [ #edchat #scichat #edreform #educhat ]
- Who's responsible for improving student achievement? - t.co/zqvDpZy [ #edchat #educhat #education ]
- Debunking myths about *project*-based learning - t.co/xWfwkCQ [ #edchat #pedagogy #educhat ]
- Lawsuit, teacher layoffs follow Wisconsin budget signing - t.co/QdcLMdV [ #Wisconsin #austerity #edchat #neoliberalism ]
- The assault on public education in America - t.co/TMjRUzt [ #edchat #educhat #neoliberalism #classism #p2 #austerity ]
- Fieldwork notebooks: notes & notetaking by artists, theorists & other creative minds - t.co/0KPJUQ3 [ #aesthetics #culture #edchat ]
- Students swap Play-Doh for Plato - t.co/pZdYzLW [ #edchat #educhat #edreform #PhilEd #philosophy #pedagogy ]
- Blackboard gets bought - t.co/pGSsSsD [ #edtech #capitalism ]
- Radical Philosophy: UK-based journal of socialist & feminist philosophy - t.co/nhdW6Zh [ #philosophy ]
- North Korea shuts down universities for 10 months - t.co/2LDa0Q7 [ #NK #korea #loveHE #highered #edchat #news ]
- Laptop buying guide for 2011 - t.co/1DpWSQ9 [ #edtech #tech ]
- His classroom is now a hot dog stand - t.co/8AeNVdi [ #BCed #BCnews ]
- Milwaukee schools to lay off 354 teachers - t.co/C5jvKWs [ #edchat #austerity #neoliberalism ]
- Butchart, R. (2011). What's Foucault got to do with it? History, theory, and becoming subjected - t.co/E4aG6t0 [ #Foucault ]
- NY State Teachers' Union sues over evaluation scheme - t.co/QAXHmhX [ #edchat #NYed #lawfare #neoliberalism ]
- Study: Underemployment, unhappiness, higher education linked - t.co/cGhmThK [ #loveHE #highered #culture #jobs #econ #sociology ]
- BC: Saanich school board wins $ to balance its budget - t.co/K5FCxsw [ #BCed #BCnews #BC #BCpoli {via @jsteffenhagen}]
- Supreme Court of Canada to decide on special-needs education - t.co/WB2Osdy [ #Canada #CanEd #BCed {via @jsteffenhagen}]
- 1,000 teachers to be fired in Chicago - t.co/kCTPOTO [ #Chicago #edchat #neoliberalism #austerity ]
- Birmingham, Michigan teachers denounce education cuts - t.co/Ms3LszT [ #edchat #neoliberalism #austerity ]
- Surprised? || Students 'still' have unequal access to educational opportunities - t.co/sNNIZEF [ #edchat #educhat #elemchat ]
- The Humanities matter more - t.co/HdpcQwS [ #loveHE #highered #culture #edchat #education ]
- People w/o college degrees more pessimistic about the future? - t.co/ZwR1N82 [ #loveHE #highered #culture #sociology #edchat ]
- No 'recovery' for young workers & students in Canada? - t.co/Srcjwle [ #Canada #BCnews #cdnleft ]
- Bad Teacher: Films as teaching tools - t.co/V8vp3Nk [ #edchat #educhat #culture #pedagogy #education ]
- Don't look on the bright side: Pessimism, not magical thinking, is what will save us - t.co/TqdFkuy [ #sociology #culture #edchat ]
- St. Pierre, E. & Roulston, K. (2006). The state of qualitative inquiry: A contested science - t.co/7axdo6L [ #edresearch ]
- St. Pierre, E. (2006). Scientifically based research in education: Epistemology and ethics - t.co/61lYFZs [ #edresearch ]
- St. Pierre, E. (2000). Poststructural feminism in education: An overview - t.co/lZjT6y6 [ #edresearch ]
- St. Pierre, E. (1997). Circling the text: Nomadic writing practices - t.co/UUEMTh9 [ #edresearch ]
- Frejes, A. & Nicoll, K. (2007). Foucault & lifelong learning: Governing the subject - t.co/UU9g9K5 [ #Foucault #edresearch ]
- Rebuilding an open democratic university - t.co/4vjBlSj [ #loveHE #highered #edreform ]
- Providence, Rhode Island budget includes mass layoffs, spending cuts - t.co/5TvGMfl [ #edchat #austerity #classism #neoliberalism ]
- Make it relevant or engaging, or don't teach it - t.co/xtIJibC [ #edchat #educhat #BCed #pedagogy #education {via @davidwees}]
- "Internships" or "exploited labour" for BC's new teachers? - t.co/O3l0EJ5 [ #BCed {via @jsteffenhagen}]
- Defensible or reprehensible? || Surrey trustees approve 2.6% pay hike - t.co/HPl7Fb8 [ #BCed #BCpoli #BCnews {via @jsteffenhagen}]
- Surrey trustees give raise for themselves, but propose 0% for teachers - t.co/FhdrfLp [ #BCnews #BCed #plutocracy #hypocrisy ]
- BC teachers & their employers: Bargaining blues - t.co/1yH6qe9 [ #BCed #BCpoli #BCnews #BC {via @jsteffenhagen}]
- Why do people believe stupid stuff, even when confronted w/ conflicting truths? - t.co/YsZ5bB6 [ #sociology #culture #anthropos ]
- [ #Foucault ] "Each society has its regime of truth, its 'general politics' of truth: that is, the types of (cont) tl.gd/bd0plf
- [ # Foucault ] "There can be no possible exercise of power without a certain economy of discourses of truth (cont) tl.gd/bd0r0v
- [ #Foucault ] "Foucault's functionalism throws up a new topology which no longer locates the origin of power in (cont) tl.gd/bd0s4o
- [ #Foucault ] "It is just because one realizes after Foucault that one cannot think to have identified power in (cont) tl.gd/bd0t3l
- [ #Deleuze ] "What is our light and what is our language, that is to say, our 'truth' today? What powers must we (cont) tl.gd/bd0u8c
- [ #anthropos ] "For most minds, once doctrine is sighted and is held to be the completion of insight, the (cont) tl.gd/bd0vlk
- "[T]heory does not express, translate, or serve to apply practice: it is practice." - Foucault [ #philosophy #Foucault #PhilEd ]
- Recommended => Deleuze & Foucault (1972) Intellectuals & power - t.co/nljTFOu [ #philosophy #Foucault #Deleuze #comrade ]
- Taking 'Bad Teacher' to school - t.co/30CZmGm [ #edchat #educhat #culture ]
- How standardized testing is being expanded - t.co/cmYbHdw [ #edchat #educhat #assessment #neoliberalism #capitalism ]
- Brain rhythm associated with learning also linked to running speed? - t.co/py0EHyy [ #cogsci #neuro #edchat #educhat ]
- Sweedish school eliminates 'gender' - t.co/PyhiEF6 [ #edchat #educhat #elemchat #sociology #gender ]
- How does diet affect symptoms of ADHD? - t.co/hJHyef7 [ #health #ADHD #parenting #edchat #food #sociology ]
- Parents, adolescents & false assumptions - t.co/Yf1I8V5 [ #parenting #sociology #edchat ]
- Teaching addiction, homelessness & marriage - t.co/lZ4WQA2 [ #edchat #sociology ]
- 19 great online graphing calculators for teachers & students - t.co/9NrJGEa [ #edtech #edchat #educhat #mathchat ]
- California moves to increase charter schools - t.co/1lXgR0R [ #edchat #educhat #neoliberalism #edreform #california ]
- Australian tribunal allows greater exploitation of student labour - t.co/3QIvJbG [ #capitalism #edchat #neoliberalism ]
- Considering 'the homework monster' - t.co/AmmwT8D [ #edchat #educhat #edreform #BCed {via @joe_bower}]
- BC: Pay raise 4 Abbotsford school trustees [after election] ... but teachers to be laid-off - t.co/m32kAq6 [ #BCnews #BCed #BCpoli ]