For Thursday, February 17
        Please read and bring these articles to class:

  1. Reviews of Spillane's book, Standards Deviation

    1. Teachers College Record (Edlefson) [html]

    2.  Education Next [34K PDF (this is the single-page brief review handed out in class Feb. 10)]

  2. Glatthorn, "Aligning the Curriculum" [296KB PDF] this file is now FIXED
                ( p. 84 was repeated where 86 should be. The right page is there now. )
                Glatthorn_page_86 -- if you already have the other pages
            duizhao version [768KB PDF]  ( English | Chinese - for Chinese readers only )

  3. Anyon: Social Class and the Hidden Curriculum of Work [html]

  4. from The Teaching Gap, by Stigler and Hiebert:
    If you have read The Teaching Gap, please review chapters 5 & 6 and bring the book to class.
    If you have not read the book, please read & bring these excerpts (The American Educator article is basically a stand-alone version of chapter six).

    1. pp. 73-75 (from c. 5) [48KB PDF]

    2. American Educator article  [190KB PDF]
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      Alternate file version for 9 pages of the material above (duplicates content from the items above, but some people might want this version, which shows the page images straight from the book):
      excerpts from cc. 5 & 6  [391KB PDF]
      This "excerpts" file has pp. 73-75 from c. 5 and 6 pages from c. 6, so the last pages will have some overlap with the content of the other file.

  5. Colonizing Our Future: The Commercial Transformation Of America's School. [html]

miniprojects

        For Week 1: Self-Introduction

Please write an introduction of yourself to the class.
(Please do this by Saturday night if possible; I have set the deadline as 11:55 pm Monday night to allow for beginning difficulties.)

Describe your background, your interests in education, your professional situation, aspirations, etc.

You may also have beliefs, positions, concerns etc. that you want to share, to help classmates get a better idea of where you're coming from and where you're heading.

You can include anything that will help others in the class get to know you better, in ways that could be relevant for our work together in this course.

This self-introduction will be accessible on the web for the remainder of the semester.

        For Week 2: Problems, Challenges, and Applications

Please elaborate on one or two of the education problems or challenges that you are concerned about, or that you are interested in working on, and discuss the relevance of insights and points raised by our readings and discussion in week 2.

(Please do this by Sunday night (midnight) if possible; I have set the deadline as 11:55 pm Monday night Feb 21 to allow for beginning difficulties.)

Curriculum Inquiry: Reflections of the Field