Re:[tips] Charter Schools: A Marketplace for Profits or Ideas?
Some subscribers to TIPS might be interested in a discussion list post Re: Charter Schools: A Marketplace for Profits or Ideas? [Hake (2014)]. The abstract reads: ** ABSTRACT: In a discussion Charter Schools: A Marketplace for Profits or Ideas? Bill Moyers' http://bit.ly/1feQ5iw interviewed Diane Ravitch, who stated: The lure of getting federal money made many states change their laws to open the door to many, many more charter schools. . . . . . . Public education is becoming big business as bankers, hedge fund managers, and private equity investors are entering what they consider to be an 'emerging market.' As Rupert Murdoch put it http://bit.ly/1pAwGMh after purchasing an education technology company, 'When it comes to K through 12 education, we see a $500 billion sector in the US alone' . . . . . . I think what's at stake is the future of American public education. I believe it is one of the foundation stones of our democracy: So an attack on public education is an attack on democracy. See also Here is the Bill Moyers Interview in Full [Ravitch (2014)] at http://bit.ly/1mFTAmo. Over 4 decades ago economist Albert O. Hirschman (1970) in Exit, Voice, and Loyalty: Responses to Decline in Firms, Organizations, and States http://bit.ly/11QKoRB, made a case against charter-schools similar to that made by Ravitch. He first quoted the conservative economist Milton Friedman who argued that SCHOOL VOUCHERS SHOULD REPLACE THE CURRENT PUBLIC-SCHOOL SYSTEM, writing Parents could express their views about schools directly, by withdrawing their children from one school and sending them to another. Hirschman then countered (my CAPS): [Friedman's opinion] is a near perfect example of the ECONOMIST'S BIAS IN FAVOR OF EXIT AND AGAINST VOICE: In the first place, Friedman considers withdrawal or exit as the 'direct' way of expressing one's unfavorable views of an organization. *A person less well trained in economics might naively suggest that the direct way of expressing views is to express them!* Secondly, the decision to voice one's views and efforts to make them prevail are contemptuously referred to by Friedman as a resort to 'cumbrous political channels.' But what else is the political, and indeed the democratic, process than the digging, the use, and hopefully the slow improvement of these very channels? ** To access the complete 57 kB post please click on http://bit.ly/1hcMHkF. Richard Hake, Emeritus Professor of Physics, Indiana University; Honorary Member, Curmudgeon Lodge of Deventer, The Netherlands; President, PEdants for Definitive Academic References which Recognize the Invention of the Internet (PEDARRII); LINKS TO: Academia http://bit.ly/a8ixxm; Articles http://bit.ly/a6M5y0; Blog http://bit.ly/9yGsXh; Facebook http://on.fb.me/XI7EKm; GooglePlus http://bit.ly/KwZ6mE; Google Scholar http://bit.ly/Wz2FP3; Linked In http://linkd.in/14uycpW; Research Gate http://bit.ly/1fJiSwB; Socratic Dialogue Inducing (SDI) Labs http://bit.ly/9nGd3M; Twitter http://bit.ly/juvd52. REFERENCES [URL shortened by http://bit.ly/ and accessed on 31 March 2014.] Hake, R.R. 2014. Re: Charter Schools: A Marketplace for Profits or Ideas?online on the OPEN! AERA-L archives at http://bit.ly/1hcMHkF. The abstract and link to the complete post are being transmitted to several discussion lists and are also on my blog Hake'sEdStuff at http://bit.ly/1mGrN5i. --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@jab.org. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5n=Tl=tipso=35716 or send a blank email to leave-35716-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
[tips] Random Thought: A Chance Meeting
In response to my last reflection, one professor wrote in what seemed to be a demanding tone, let's just stick to technology and pedagogy. I wasn't going to respond until an answer unexpectedly happened my way yesterday. I was disobeying my beautiful Nurse Rachet and working, braced knee and all, the drive-through line of the synagogue's corn beef sandwich sale fundraiser. A black Lexus pulled up. I leaned through the open window. A smiling young lady leaned over holding two tickets. I exchanged them for two sandwich boxes. Then, as if not caring that cars were lining up behind her, she hit me square in my heart. I wasn't ready for it. Dr. Schmier. You don't remember me, do you. I was Sally Sax (not her real name) in your class twelves years ago. You came to the hospital to visit me when I was really sick and missing class. I was surprised to see you. I wondered why you came since I wasn't a very good student. You told me not to worry about a project presentation my community was making and to just focus on getting well. You said, we'd work something out so it wouldn't hurt me. After you left, I cried. For the first time that I could remember, I felt worthwhile. I felt loved. I felt I mattered because you showed that you noticed me that I mattered to you. I decided right then and there to start believing in myself and turning myself into the person you believed I could be. I still am. And, I'm teaching what you taught me to my children. I never said anything about this in my journals or to you. So, I think it's time to say, 'thank you.' I'd come out and give you a big hug if there weren't so many people behind me. I just silently leaned on the door for a second, speechless. The ache in my braced knee disappeared. I could feel a tear forming. Then, I said a quiet thank you. It was enough. With that, I backed away, she smiled and drove off. When I told my Susie, she asked if I remembered Sally. I answered, No. But, I couldn't get Sally out of my mind. This morning, as I was reading David Brooks' oped in the NY Times, and writing a comment, it hit me. I remembered; and, I remembered that I could never figure out why Sally had suddenly blossomed after she came back from a week in the hospital. Now I know. So, to this professor, I say, no. I won't. I can't. I'm someone who speaks to people about living a deep, meaningful life, professionally and personally. Though I've never have ignored technology and pedagogy, but I'll focus more so on people. Hippocrates said something to the effect that it is more important to know what sort of person has a disease than to know what sort of disease a person has. It's not different in the classroom. We each have self-fulfilling views of both ourselves and students. We shouldn't see students merely as avatars of GPAs, stripped of their intrinsic worth of being a human being. We are at our best when we present education as personal transformation and development rather than as ritualized test-taking and grade-getting. So, I'm not just asking you to consider living and teaching according to the dictum of my Teacher's Oath. I'm begging you. Technology and methodology are important, but not more than is the individual person. There are a lot of people like Sally out there. Make it a good day -Louis- Louis Schmier http://www.therandomthoughts.edublogs.org 203 E. Brookwood Pl http://www.therandomthoughts.com Valdosta, Ga 31602 (C) 229-630-0821 /\ /\ /\ /\ /\ /^\\/ \/ \ /\/\__ / \ / \ / \/ \_ \/ / \/ /\/ / \/\ \ //\/\/ /\\__/__/_/\_\/ \_/__\ \ /\If you want to climb mountains,\ /\ _ / \don't practice on mole hills - / \_ --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@jab.org. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5n=Tl=tipso=35718 or send a blank email to leave-35718-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
[tips] Posting: Chance Event
Dear Louis, A very moving story. We should always try to make time for what may be a small gesture. Who knows what impact it may have? Sincerely, Stuart ___ Floreat Labore [cid:image001.jpg@01CF4D9B.65B42C50] Recti cultus pectora roborant Stuart J. McKelvie, Ph.D., Phone: 819 822 9600 x 2402 Department of Psychology, Fax: 819 822 9661 Bishop's University, 2600 rue College, Sherbrooke, Québec J1M 1Z7, Canada. E-mail: stuart.mckel...@ubishops.camailto:stuart.mckel...@ubishops.ca (or smcke...@ubishops.camailto:smcke...@ubishops.ca) Bishop's University Psychology Department Web Page: http://www.ubishops.ca/ccc/div/soc/psyblocked::http://www.ubishops.ca/ccc/div/soc/psy Floreat Labore [cid:image002.jpg@01CF4D9B.65B42C50] [cid:image003.jpg@01CF4D9B.65B42C50] ___ --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@jab.org. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5n=Tl=tipso=35719 or send a blank email to leave-35719-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.eduinline: image001.jpginline: image002.jpginline: image003.jpg
[tips] IN MEMORIAM: MICHAEL SYLVESTER,PH.D
Michael Sylvester was born and grew up on the Caribbean island of St.Lucia,the only island in the caribbean that has had two nobel laureates-Arthur Lewis(with Milton Friedman) for Economics and Derek Walcott for Literature. Sylvester,who immigrated to the United States and became a U.S citizen.obtained a BA from Gannon U ,an MA from Wichita State U,and a PhD from the Unuversity of Missouri. All degrees were in Psychology.Prior to starting his undergrad studies he spent a short postulancy and novitiate studying to be a Trappist monk at the Abbey of Gethsemani in Kentucky where the contemplative Thomas Merton was a Novice master. His best known work is a compendium of works titled WHAT THEY NEVER TOLD YOU IN PSYCHOLOGY CLASS about the African origins of modern psychology. Funeral srvices will be in Tipsville and the pallbearers are Christopher Green,Stephen Black,James Clark,Stuart McKelvie,Allen Esterson.Canadian born James Randi will be present at the services to hand over a check for a million dollars,since Michael by being dead is also able to post to Tips-hence proving the existence of psychic phenomenon on this April's fool day.Send me something. michael --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@jab.org. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5n=Tl=tipso=35722 or send a blank email to leave-35722-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
RE: [tips] IN MEMORIAM: MICHAEL SYLVESTER,PH.D
Amazing!!! De: michael sylvester [mailto:msylves...@copper.net] Enviada: 1 de abril de 2014 18:29 Para: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Assunto: [tips] IN MEMORIAM: MICHAEL SYLVESTER,PH.D Michael Sylvester was born and grew up on the Caribbean island of St.Lucia,the only island in the caribbean that has had two nobel laureates-Arthur Lewis(with Milton Friedman) for Economics and Derek Walcott for Literature. Sylvester,who immigrated to the United States and became a U.S citizen.obtained a BA from Gannon U ,an MA from Wichita State U,and a PhD from the Unuversity of Missouri. All degrees were in Psychology.Prior to starting his undergrad studies he spent a short postulancy and novitiate studying to be a Trappist monk at the Abbey of Gethsemani in Kentucky where the contemplative Thomas Merton was a Novice master. His best known work is a compendium of works titled WHAT THEY NEVER TOLD YOU IN PSYCHOLOGY CLASS about the African origins of modern psychology. Funeral srvices will be in Tipsville and the pallbearers are Christopher Green,Stephen Black,James Clark,Stuart McKelvie,Allen Esterson.Canadian born James Randi will be present at the services to hand over a check for a million dollars,since Michael by being dead is also able to post to Tips-hence proving the existence of psychic phenomenon on this April's fool day.Send me something. michael --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: al...@psi.uminho.pt mailto:al...@psi.uminho.pt . To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13079.37464550bba7c9b4601a21fd9decb43c http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13079.37464550bba7c9b4601a21fd9decb43cn= Tl=tipso=35722 n=Tl=tipso=35722 (It may be necessary to cut and paste the above URL if the line is broken) or send a blank email to leave-35722-13079.37464550bba7c9b4601a21fd9decb...@fsulist.frostburg.edu mailto:leave-35722-13079.37464550bba7c9b4601a21fd9decb43c@fsulist.frostburg .edu --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@jab.org. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5n=Tl=tipso=35733 or send a blank email to leave-35733-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
RE: [tips] IN MEMORIAM: MICHAEL SYLVESTER,PH.D
Crazy joke! De: michael sylvester [mailto:msylves...@copper.net] Enviada: 1 de abril de 2014 18:29 Para: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Assunto: [tips] IN MEMORIAM: MICHAEL SYLVESTER,PH.D Michael Sylvester was born and grew up on the Caribbean island of St.Lucia,the only island in the caribbean that has had two nobel laureates-Arthur Lewis(with Milton Friedman) for Economics and Derek Walcott for Literature. Sylvester,who immigrated to the United States and became a U.S citizen.obtained a BA from Gannon U ,an MA from Wichita State U,and a PhD from the Unuversity of Missouri. All degrees were in Psychology.Prior to starting his undergrad studies he spent a short postulancy and novitiate studying to be a Trappist monk at the Abbey of Gethsemani in Kentucky where the contemplative Thomas Merton was a Novice master. His best known work is a compendium of works titled WHAT THEY NEVER TOLD YOU IN PSYCHOLOGY CLASS about the African origins of modern psychology. Funeral srvices will be in Tipsville and the pallbearers are Christopher Green,Stephen Black,James Clark,Stuart McKelvie,Allen Esterson.Canadian born James Randi will be present at the services to hand over a check for a million dollars,since Michael by being dead is also able to post to Tips-hence proving the existence of psychic phenomenon on this April's fool day.Send me something. michael --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: al...@psi.uminho.pt mailto:al...@psi.uminho.pt . To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13079.37464550bba7c9b4601a21fd9decb43c http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13079.37464550bba7c9b4601a21fd9decb43cn= Tl=tipso=35722 n=Tl=tipso=35722 (It may be necessary to cut and paste the above URL if the line is broken) or send a blank email to leave-35722-13079.37464550bba7c9b4601a21fd9decb...@fsulist.frostburg.edu mailto:leave-35722-13079.37464550bba7c9b4601a21fd9decb43c@fsulist.frostburg .edu --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@jab.org. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5n=Tl=tipso=35735 or send a blank email to leave-35735-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
[tips] Reurrection
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RE: [tips] IN MEMORIAM: MICHAEL SYLVESTER,PH.D
Booking my ticket to tipsville now; I've always wanted to see James Randi (will he deliver the eulogy?) Doug Doug Peterson, PhD Associate Professor of Psychology The University of South Dakota Vermillion SD 57069 605.677.5295 From: José Ferreira-Alves [al...@psi.uminho.pt] Sent: Tuesday, April 01, 2014 5:29 PM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Subject: RE: [tips] IN MEMORIAM: MICHAEL SYLVESTER,PH.D Amazing!!! De: michael sylvester [mailto:msylves...@copper.net] Enviada: 1 de abril de 2014 18:29 Para: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Assunto: [tips] IN MEMORIAM: MICHAEL SYLVESTER,PH.D Michael Sylvester was born and grew up on the Caribbean island of St.Lucia,the only island in the caribbean that has had two nobel laureates-Arthur Lewis(with Milton Friedman) for Economics and Derek Walcott for Literature. Sylvester,who immigrated to the United States and became a U.S citizen.obtained a BA from Gannon U ,an MA from Wichita State U,and a PhD from the Unuversity of Missouri. All degrees were in Psychology.Prior to starting his undergrad studies he spent a short postulancy and novitiate studying to be a Trappist monk at the Abbey of Gethsemani in Kentucky where the contemplative Thomas Merton was a Novice master. His best known work is a compendium of works titled WHAT THEY NEVER TOLD YOU IN PSYCHOLOGY CLASS about the African origins of modern psychology. Funeral srvices will be in Tipsville and the pallbearers are Christopher Green,Stephen Black,James Clark,Stuart McKelvie,Allen Esterson.Canadian born James Randi will be present at the services to hand over a check for a million dollars,since Michael by being dead is also able to post to Tips-hence proving the existence of psychic phenomenon on this April's fool day.Send me something. michael --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: al...@psi.uminho.ptmailto:al...@psi.uminho.pt. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13079.37464550bba7c9b4601a21fd9decb43cn=Tl=tipso=35722 (It may be necessary to cut and paste the above URL if the line is broken) or send a blank email to leave-35722-13079.37464550bba7c9b4601a21fd9decb...@fsulist.frostburg.edumailto:leave-35722-13079.37464550bba7c9b4601a21fd9decb...@fsulist.frostburg.edu --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: doug.peter...@usd.edumailto:doug.peter...@usd.edu. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=12991.6a54289b29ceb58cb7609cc50e0dc1c8n=Tl=tipso=35733 (It may be necessary to cut and paste the above URL if the line is broken) or send a blank email to leave-35733-12991.6a54289b29ceb58cb7609cc50e0dc...@fsulist.frostburg.edumailto:leave-35733-12991.6a54289b29ceb58cb7609cc50e0dc...@fsulist.frostburg.edu --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@jab.org. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5n=Tl=tipso=35738 or send a blank email to leave-35738-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
RE: [tips] Reurrection
Good! More relieved De: michael sylvester [mailto:msylves...@copper.net] Enviada: 2 de abril de 2014 00:24 Para: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Assunto: [tips] Reurrection michael --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: al...@psi.uminho.pt mailto:al...@psi.uminho.pt . To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13079.37464550bba7c9b4601a21fd9decb43c http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13079.37464550bba7c9b4601a21fd9decb43cn= Tl=tipso=35737 n=Tl=tipso=35737 (It may be necessary to cut and paste the above URL if the line is broken) or send a blank email to leave-35737-13079.37464550bba7c9b4601a21fd9decb...@fsulist.frostburg.edu mailto:leave-35737-13079.37464550bba7c9b4601a21fd9decb43c@fsulist.frostburg .edu --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@jab.org. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5n=Tl=tipso=35739 or send a blank email to leave-35739-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
