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this is the way he was trained as a pol sci
politics, community politics
additional ways to defend, understand
pol and ed most think who gets jobs
pol as a moral event grandest short of religion.
blaise
pol of knowledge: gavin this is what brought j fernandez done
pol of access
soc promotion v ejection
pol of discrimination
what does politics mean
partisan politics
ambition delivers noblesse oblige
See articles
consider Messinger v Sharpton
politics is a series of battles, remember summer battle.
she runs from strength - educ
revisit articles
Rudy and Rudy join work forces.
protecting school and playing partisan
is he the reformer becoming the status quo
HOLY WAR:
pol is the public discovery of pub morality, it is the way we do
it.
chronic failure of school test pub and priv
is it the chronic failure of family?
is it the chronic failure of the kids?
can't read the interest of the children into this
who fails?
schools? kids? the system? (totally opague) teachers? admin?
(lack of vision, but slothfulness)
but who has failed it?
as soon as you select families you select values.
this will advance success
selection gives you control over outcome.
UFT of course against it.
competency based promotion
Rudy G v R Cortines
Leon goldstein pres of kingsboro cc mayor's candidate
1. process counts
eventually C Gresser and 2 others delay
you want the process to be long to see if the person can
process has to be transparent
2. anyone who is any good is on the edge, below the radar
live by the sword die the sword, it is cyclical
Then the BOE goes with Dan Dominich 4-3
to succeed make folks accountable this is why union works.
3. action creates power. does it breed more or dcrease it?
action creates understanding too.
conflict is the engine of social change from JK Galbraith when
he returned from India.
Sarason says this too.
pol in educ is parties, media, unions, some parents, studied
indifference of everyone, attentive public,
pol process discovers values, the sch of nyc are what we want.
markets discover prices.
education semi-democratic institution.
What if the democratic process really ruled?
Is socialism a preferable
indiv organizing processes are more powerful than socializing or
group
schools are the last socialistic entity connect this to
telementoring:
PART II
change it by being a better teacher and political.
community, pol
admin is managing the building presiding over what you have.
leadership is a challenge to authority.
what is the authority.
preside merely keeps status quo
leading means getting into the face.
COMMUNITIES:
4th v 6th
blacks v hispanics
pop who need low skilled low ed workers
everyone does not want to improve schools.
world class econ needs world class educ: not true
we have world class econ, but not world class educ
communities are plural, adds to telementoring
2. politics is the distribution of power.
EDUCATION:
sch of ed are not the same thing
CHART
fSU US, Isr, FR
(former Soviet Union)
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Facts Application Creativity
You can teach for:
Facts:
application:
creativity:
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A Universe of Needs:
ROLES STUDENTS
Parents Girls
School Boards A-list/B-list
State BOE Afr-Amer
State Dept o fEd Hispanic
Teachers Adolescent
recruitment Pre-Adolescent
training early childhood
working conditions pre-school
evaluating urban, rural, suburban
promoting, dismissing future elites
Principals math & science students
Superintendents
Home schooling
See the politics of list
1. are there outcomes?
2. are they differentially distributed? do they affect different
pop differently
if yes then you have politics
anger
subsidy pol : we do it quietly
vs
redistribution pol : watching stack grow until
Why them?? makes pol ugly
Use Ted Lowie to bludgeon folks with this notion.
from pol of social justice to pol of privilege
you should push the politics around not be pushed around by it.
MANN:
straight ahead pol theory
about now
behaviorial pol scientist what they do more than charts
more to budget than speeches.
theories are constructs which explain
what does it mean to have a pol theory
about values, disagreements,
look at the numbers not the rhetoric
big shifts from democratic stuff
big diffs between: attentive elites and electorate
big diffs betwen: electorate and masses
big gaps between leaders and led.
Banfield Unheavenly City, underclass inabilty to gratify, and
can't invest in selves for future so welfare will fail, be more
realistic
Bromfield looked at difference in family, we need kabutzs, take
them away from their family
Chas Murray: availibility of welfare you get third generation
welfare. Better to take welfare than get low end job.
culture of dependency, govt programs did not help they hurt.
keep pluralistic ignorance
shift from race to class based politics
policy analysis helps you to cut pop, policies etc so they do
what you need them to do
political issue is political space
by manipulating, ignoring, manipulate agenda
Participatory democracy:
case for involvement: participation involvement the more they
1. participate the more they argee with the group they are on, as
participaion increases ownership - constructivism
add parents
2. routed in idealogy of country govt of by for pop
problems:
1. committees are a sham, uneven because one issue folks, nut
cases or those already involved.
2. lots of participation facts are wrong.
participatory is impossible, can't happen
do parents run sch?
does community run sch?
does state run sch?
1. stratification theory / elite theory is the triangle with the
power at the top. they is them, there is a strata whish is based
on money (class), power is top down, Floyd Hunter, and govt
officials are controlled
Hunter: who has the power, (editors, religion, counsel, super,
storekeepers)
2. polyarchy / pluralism
3. nondecision
conspiracy theories take away your motivation and you don't think
you can participate.
major alternative is DAHL pol scientist at Yale. if power isn't
at top then I should look at who participates, who gains, and
which policy areas dominate. four circles of diff issues: Real
Estate, Taxes, Hosp, Sch: lots of arenas,
issue based politics
each has issue
The intersection is the power: they are the folks who are most
involved, participatory, is recriprocal power, Japanese ON (do
favors to get obligation), create obligation thus you create
power, expertise is the ticket
polyarchy: govt elites control, followers control elites
intermittantly, fun to have power - pop who have want to keep it
system works because the way the system is structured. system
has to be open: how open is the system (very), activists have to
represent community, intensity has to provide access (squeeky
wheel) issue mobilization.
ambition is responsiveness
What is the politics of pluralism?
administrative democracy.
you are players.
don't believe 1. see 2 and holes
and see relationship of pedagogy, expertise is the ticket to
play,
what is not pedagogy is politics
pedagogy is the defense against politics
16th Amendment
What is the pedagogy?
what is not pedagogy is politics
John Murphy and Ron Etheridge
non decision making:
what you can't see is what sinks you.
It is what you don't act on, choose to omit, may come back to
bite you in backside.
most of budget is not decided.
momentum decides,
Bachrach Baratz
soft underbelly of decision making.
QUESTIONS:
State takeover South Carolina
Part II
The boat analogy:
Jim Coleman 1965 Parents, Peers, Schools
schools least productive and govt money in that not in the
family.
shed load, cut down on goal overload. telementoring does this -
Stanford Prof. Mike Kirsten
Death of Distance new book
learner to knowledge will change with telecommunications
telementor
digital changes it all kowledge gos to learner cant discriminate
race, sex, age, handicap etc
content is king,
access: telephone and television
functions served by that tech became instrumental in our lives.
computers too eventually. market delivers equity
individual motivation more powerful than community motivation
San Diego COOP found Infinity owners had families.
SCHOOL IMPROVEMENT:
Under
Grissmer, david w md who is at rand.
state pol interventions, standards, takeovers etc explain 20% of
achievement
60% from family
analysis is that family has not deterioratd.
more money coming into the home because women have paid
employment and she won't have as many kids.
quality time is quality crisis time
stud achievement and the changing effect of family
RAND
Cleveland conference
effective schools is a new movement
1972 Averch, Harvey asked by nixon admin figure out where gov
should spend money on educ
Research has not identified a variant of the existing system to
improve student achievement.
Ron Edmunds,
said Brown v BOE Topeka didn't work.
every parents demand excellence for their child
prediction of educ achievement = family back + prior learning
Family:
non work poor
work class poor intense about ed ofchildre
middle class
should be "minimum" because teacher not part of formula, so if
teacher does nothing
merit pay won't work unless you disaggregate the test scores
Peter Mortimer 15000 hours
Rutter school matters
outliers study
5 factors theory Edmonds stuff
Mortimer and Louise Hess have 13 factors
tiered leadership: if your school is doing well, I leave you
alone, if is bad I'm all over you. kids performed better because
teachers performed better because admin was committed.
Part III
How do you compel belief
measurement is the essence of science
start with dumb wonder
things you care about
help is in theory
look for something done before
self interest predicts behavior
arrange things so when self interest is played out you get
your goals accomplished.
operational ideas = survey, data collection, interview,
survey, record some instrument, field test it, analyze
it and think about the relationship about the numbers.
the bigger the number the stronger the connection.
interpretation
refine the theory.
how does this make te world a betterplace?
trustee
delegate
politico: tell me more, it is complicated, partakes of both
styles
virtual representation
wishes
decision criteria
interpretation
Make recommendations which are grounded in the data.
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R Andrews
Ed Leadership
sept 87
V 44 n 1
Productive Leadership
H Walberg
phi delta Kappan
Feb 90
v 71 n 6
Ed Leadership
v 41 n__
Ask Carlos for name of article he was mentioning.
meta analyses,
jenks, coleman, critic of schools was negative
edmonds from Harvard, effective schools,
before he died he would start
five factors based on edmonds, codification, etc etc
shape of a pentagon:
1. Leadership
2. Teaching & Learning
3. Organization Climate
4. Aacdemic Press teach teach teach the more you teach the more
you learn
5. Student Pupil Progress Measurement (tests, portfolio etc)
6. Community - parents
virtual
1. Leadership
diff betw initiation and implementation - need
participation, buy in, prob is lit doesn't distinq
between initiation & implem. dont' just implem, prac
first with small group, then grow the thing and then
implement
power equalization who runs the sch - prin or teachers, SBM
etc
time, way you spend time, instruc & budget, 20% on curr, 80%
on business
style of leadership - hard and soft, people skills is good
and then you have to be tough, concentrate on stude and
not kids,
revisit Houston - Dr Reagan - Strokes and pokes; teacher and
prin cert tests every three years.
we know how to teach
and
we don't
why not?
politics is the reason: across the board everyone.
aasa, asd, ascd
ed leadership
kappan
edweek
Org Climate
Sam springfield & teddlie
failing school: leave instruction to kids and teachers, become a
non instructional prin, don't visit classes, don't take votes,
rationalize failure,
atendance.
Acad Press
goal overload, schls do so much that you have to shed load
until you have enough to make a difference, Read Time and
Leaarning, Hammond, Berliner, how much teaching is going on.
bump up teaching time. Who owns the classroom
telementoring here
Stude pup measurement - marketbasket of methods: stand ach test
part of it, portfolio, prizes won, commun serv, all forms of
assessments, attendance,
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celebrate thus far and then up the ante.
we allow projects to substitute for educ reform.
struggle of proj and sch over who does it proje change scl or scl
change proj
process of change process to product: once you got them then
give the pedagogy
practice makes policy
LITTLE KING LEADERSHIP
change behavior then attitude will change
attitude change then behavior will change