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Book recommendation sought

I'm looking for a few good books, besides the new one from Meira Levinson, that include a look at civic education for high school students. I'm also familiar with the one Diane Ravitch co-edited.Recommendations greatly appreciated. This is for a couple of columns I'm working on.Thanks.MarkSee More
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"My name is Mark Phillips. A career educator (10 years Manhasset High in NY, 11 years UCSB, and more years than I want to note at San Francisco State!), I'm now primarily doing work as an educational journalist, mostly for Edutopia and my local…"
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Four professors discuss recent worldwide protests

An article that appeared in the Israeli newspaper HA'ARETZ, reporting discussion with three Harvard faculty, Helen Haste (HGSE), Jim Sidanius (FAS) and Ryan Enos (Government) about the recent worldwide protest movements.  Translated from Hebrew by Shai Fuxman

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מאת: אשר שכטר By Asher Schechter…

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Posted by CMEI on December 11, 2011 at 3:30pm — 1 Comment

Do teacher student relationships matter? by Hunter Gehlbach

 

Although I am hopeful that the talk on teacher-student relationships (Eliot Lyman, Oct. 6, 12 to 1:45pm) will provide much more food for thought, here is an appetizer that builds off the abstract of the talk:

 

As the educational world increasingly focuses on measuring teacher effectiveness, concern grows that "effective teachers" are defined narrowly as those who raise student test scores.  Through this talk we will explore the possibility that teachers' capacities to…

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Posted by CMEI on October 2, 2011 at 9:00pm — 2 Comments

Politics, Economics and Citizenship Education: Teaching Marxist Political Economy in China

July 22

 

It's absolutely impossible to talk about Chinese citizenship education without mentioning Marxist ideology.

 

Though in the last three decades, Chinese citizenship education de-politicized its citizenship education curricula in junior sections (Primary, junior middle schools), Marxist philosophy, political economy, and theory of socialism still made up the core contents of citizenship education in senior sections (senior middle school, university,…

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Posted by Wangbei Ye on July 21, 2011 at 11:25pm — 2 Comments

Two Thoughts About Equality and Adequacy in Education

Hello CMEI participants.  I am looking forward to joining you next week to discuss the paper I've sent in advance.  And I've been asked to stimulate an early discussion here on the blog.  So...

 

Here are two thoughts about equality and adequacy in education. 

 

1. One fundamental distinction between equality and adequacy as applied to educational resource distribution is that adequacy seeks to ensure that all students have enough education and, if this condition…

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Posted by Rob Reich on March 31, 2011 at 11:52pm — 1 Comment

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