November 2009
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“I’m just wondering if in fact the new music is just the old music again. And, if...”
– Glenn Branca, NYT.
#1) Culture Industry & Adorno much? #2) I disagreed with Adorno’s work when I first read it 2 years ago and was dismayed when it kept coming up in my academic life. Here it is again and I’m still just as bothered by these same kind of melodramatic, all-or-nothing,...
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“Education is learning what you didn’t even know you didn’t know.”
– Daniel J. Boorstin, A Case of Hypochondria, Newsweek (1970-07-06) (via blogut)
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“The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.”
– Plutarch, On Listening to Lectures (via maxheld)
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Setting pupils harms school performance →
(reblogged from researchnews)
This is an interesting look in educational practices outside of the US — in this case, the UK, and it seems to reinforce the attitudes present in this op-ed from The Guardian. Here are some definitions for US visitors like me who were a bit confused—
Streaming meant splitting pupils into several different hierarchical groups which would stay together...
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Education 101 →
A really interesting look at “how the largest school districts in the country are funded and how they spend that money.”
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“Moanin’” - Kalamazoo College...
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“If a child can’t learn the way we teach, maybe we should teach them the way they...”
– Christy F, on A to Z Teacher Stuff Forum (via dazzled)
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When faced with the choice between the classic How Children Learn and How Children Fail (both by John Holt) in one of my classes earlier this semester, I opted to be optimistic and read the former. It was a really...
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"Glee" and music education: Some issues that may...
Some quotes to start off:
“‘We knew that once the show started rolling it would be great… But to be honest, I didn’t think it would be this big this quickly. I thought it would take people a moment to catch up, but the reaction has been instant.’” - Billboard
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“Cory Monteith… was walking down Fifth Avenue when a middle-age man and his wife...
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"The War On Kids" (2009) →
This is something I’m really interested in seeing. I wrote an essay for my Emotions & Social Life class at Goldsmiths College 2 years ago about the prevalence of CCTV and how we’re all so used to being observed—
(How? Well, I theorized that it was partially due to 1) the popularity of reality TV; & 2) the increase of infotainment that has resulted in us seeing the same...