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Value Added Deep Play
(Published: March 3, 2012)
The publishing of individual teachers scores by New York City is a research boon as it allows us to test…
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MOOC: Education, degrees, careers?
(Published: March 8, 2012)
Stanford offered a class, on Machine Learning . 104,000 students registered. 13,000 completed the course. Most of them must have…
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On Political Deep Play – a coda on experimentation
(Published: March 16, 2012)
My entry from March 2 played, very seriously, with the kind of deep play policy makers in the world of…
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What’s a teacher to do?
(Published: March 20, 2012)
New York City found out on February 28 that an elementary school teacher I know well rates a “34 (7-73)…
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Where do (psycho/socio)- metricians fit?
(Published: April 10, 2012)
Recently, March 28 2012, I spent the afternoon at the plenary session of an “International Conference” on “Educational Assessment, Accountability,…
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Life endings? Or: Ends of life?
(Published: May 12, 2012)
Last week, at Lisa Le Fevre’s proposal hearing, we discussed what there might to study in a small Bulgarian village,…
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Rancière in 400 words?
(Published: May 16, 2012)
Well, I tried. Check here. Actually, Rancière is well-hidden in this piece behind some of Teachers College's most beloved rhetoric…
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On studying “dynamic changes”
(Published: May 26, 2012)
I am reading this quote from Boas analogically to the work we have been conducting within “societies” (e.g. the United…
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A quote (from Boas) for another day
(Published: June 1, 2012)
So, I would predict (in the Saussurian sense) that no sociologist (economist) can predict how NCLB will end and into…
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pathos, policy, and the culture of poverty
(Published: June 8, 2012)
What strikes me now is how much the culture of poverty made sense for the most liberal of concerned sociologists…
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Patterns of culture in America
(Published: June 14, 2012)
I have been imagining titles for a possible book where I would bring together my papers of the last few…
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Spontaneous masses and the consciousness of the “educated representatives of the propertied classes.”
(Published: September 22, 2012)
I suspect that Bourdieu’s readers could be assumed to be so well versed in Marxist scholarship that he did not…
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constructing the gender of human bodies, literally
(Published: October 22, 2012)
Sculpting new genitalia into a human body may be the ultimate in the (social) construction of new realities, the making…
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Let Business, School & Government collaborate? (!)
(Published: December 12, 2012)
What we need to ask is why should colleges be given the task of producing workers? Is there any evidence…
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Musings about possibilities in the scholarly life of a professor of education and anthropologist