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Contents contributed and discussions participated by Lauren Tripp

Lauren Tripp

"For Poor, Leap to College Often Ends in a Hard Fall" - DeParle - 10 views

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"Savage Inequalities" - Kozol - 8 views

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"Narrowing the New Class Divide" - Murray - 22 views

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"Shadowy Lines that Still Divide" - Scott & Leonhardt - 25 views

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Differences in learning for high and low levels of SES students - 14 views

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    Hey, Urvashi - fascinating study! Is there any way you can post a different link to this? I can't access it through this one.
khermes09

The Making of Americans: Multiple Languages is an Issue? - 8 views

started by khermes09 on 23 Mar 13 no follow-up yet
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    Here's a study on one bilingual classroom that tries to teach Spanish to English speakers and English to Spanish speakers: Here are the goals: "For middle class English-speaking children, two-way programs offer an enrichment opportunity: a chance to learn a foreign language in the early grades of elementary school, something quite rare and special for English speakers in a U.S. context. For working-class Latino children, two-way programs often offer stronger academic programs and more primary language support than their neighborhood schools. They offer a chance for children to maintain and develop pride in their heritage language and culture while still learning English, which is critical to their survival in the United States."

    As the study points out, it doesn't always work that way, due to power issues, but it is an interesting idea. I wonder if it was taught making the power explicit (how could you do that with 2nd graders though?), if it would be more effective, i.e. being clear about the the fact that learning to be bilingual makes you more powerful for either side, but the non-native English speakers need to learn English to have any power at all in this country.

    It would be an interesting PROBE paper topic - hint, hint. ;)

    http://ows.edb.utexas.edu/sites/default/files/users/dpalmer/EngSpkrs%20TESOLQ.pdf
Lisa Lee

The Children in Room E4 - Race Based Academic Goals - 14 views

started by Lisa Lee on 15 Feb 13 no follow-up yet
Lauren Tripp

School to prison pipeline gets first Congressional hearing - 1 views

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    Wednesday's Judiciary Committee hearing was a milestone for a movement that has fought to raise awareness about these kinds of policies in schools around the country. The issue sits squarely at the intersection of race, educational equity and criminal justice. The committee heard testimony from Obama administration officials, a former Chicago Public Schools student, reform advocates and criminal justice leaders who sought to answer some basic questions: What good has the rise of zero-tolerance school discipline policies, now responsible for three million suspensions a year, done for the students they were supposed to protect? And just as pressing: What justifiable explanations are there for the deep disparities that zero-tolerance school discipline so reliably produces?
Lauren Tripp

Interview with Jonathan Kozol - 2 views

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    I'm so glad Kara posted her link already because this is a great follow-up to it. If you are interested in learning more about the kids in "Shame of the Nation", here is an interview with Kozol talking about the impact of poverty on schools and his new book "Fire in the Ashes".
Lauren Tripp

Why America's Education System Is Like Apartheid - 0 views

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    We like to believe all students have an equal opportunity to learn regardless of the color of their skin or the amount of money their families have. However, a new report by the Schott Foundation for Public Education details just how far from that ideal the education available to students from differing backgrounds in New York City actually is.
Lauren Tripp

The Government's Ignoring the Achievement Gap - 0 views

  • The consulting firm McKinsey & Company estimates that closing the racial and ethnic achievement gaps would increase national gross domestic product by hundreds of billions of dollars, or 2% to 4% of our overall GDP.
Lauren Tripp

Reconstruction of the US immigration history - 0 views

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    "Only about half the US population have ancestry arrived to the country before the Civil War, and less then 20% of the 2000 population can be attributed to colonists arrived before the US independence" (p. 1632).
Lauren Tripp

The Good Behavior Game - 0 views

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    This is one of Jessica Ross' sources, and I think it's really an interesting connection to the idea of school as a game and the possibility of creating reward junkies vs. the benefits of instant feedback. Here's the quote she liked from it: "Clearly,verbally identifying misbehaving students by name, publicly stating specific transgressions, and the provision of team debits on a blackboard may have acted as a discriminative stimulus for appropriate conduct (Salend, Reynolds, & Coyle, 1989) and provided a source of immediate feedback."
Lauren Tripp

How Learners Can Be On Top of Their Game: An Interview with James Paul Gee (Part Four) - 2 views

  • No one needs a Halo test after finishing Halo on hard and no one should need an algebra test after finishing an equally well-designed algebra curriculum.
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    Can we use video games as an example for improving education?
Lauren Tripp

Thoughts on the Failure of Merit Pay - 1 views

  • Chapter 9 summarizes Deming's strong opposition to merit ranking and merit pay. Bottom line: It is bad for corporations. It gets everyone thinking about what is good for himself or herself and leads to forgetting about the goals of the organization. It incentivizes short-term thinking and discourages long-term thinking.
Lauren Tripp

Teacher Pay for Performance: Experimental Evidence from the Project on Incentives in Te... - 0 views

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    "While the general trend in middle school mathematics performance was upward over the period of the project, students of teachers randomly assigned to the treatment group (eligible for bonuses) did not outperform students whose teachers were assigned to the control group (not eligible for bonuses)." So much for the argument that paying teachers more is enough to raise their kids' test scores!
Lauren Tripp

Texas, Budget Cuts and Children - NYTimes.com - 0 views

  • What’s supposed to happen when today’s neglected children become tomorrow’s work force?
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    This is an interesting connection: today's education budget cuts directly impact the viability of our future economy. So much for racing to the top...
Lauren Tripp

How Learners Can Be On Top of Their Game: An Interview with James Paul Gee (Part Three) - 1 views

  • School has a very hard time producing grit because different people have different passions (and school is about everybody learning the same thing) and passions are something people choose (and school is often not about choice). Furthermore, interest is kindled into passion inside things like passionate affinity spaces and related sorts of social formations and these are hard to come by in schools.
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    Maybe moral education should be about developing students' individual passions? And supporting them in developing "grit"?
Lauren Tripp

Poverty and Potential: Out-of-School Factors and School Success | National Education Po... - 5 views

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    An academic version of the impact of poverty on schools - good source for your PROBE papers!
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