Narratives of American Educational Systems: Part I

According to the degrees I hold I'm an educational researcher. Hence, despite the fact that my work generally focuses less on educational policy and the activities of public and private institutions, and more on understanding learning and designing tools to facilitate it, I do actually have a pretty intense level of exposure to research and writing focused on the history, policies, and outcomes of educational systems, especially in America. Because I have this background, I need to come out of my digital media hidey hole for a moment here to share a few thoughts on education in America that I've been having in light of some recent noise on the internet and in the public sphere.

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Late to the party

After putting up extensive resistance, I finally folded recently and set up a Twitter account. Somewhere between the competing reminders from Google Buzz and Facebook, I reached the conclusion that I needed a bridging tool and that Twitter was the obvious choice. Of course there were consequences to this choice. The most immediate of these was that the mysterious language of tweets (all of those @s, #s, and RTs) immediately became clear to me. Don't get me wrong, I understood what they were for in theory before setting up an account. This didn't change the fact that prior to entering the Twitterverse when they popped up in my Buzz or Facebook feeds, their actual meaning was always slightly obscure. Now of course, I've become a contributor to the morass of Facebook posts that include these curious characters.

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De-Link-Quent

In this post I play catch up as usual. Both my academic and artistic colleagues have been active on the web lately, and the result is a pleasant accumulation of new stuff. After the jump you'll find the details as well as some random visual goodness.

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Now with a slightly Square look

If you're viewing this post from the actual blog, you've probably already noticed that the page has a new look. I've moved over to squarespace which has been fantastic in terms of set up. However, I've been a little slow to post because it doesn't have the awesome drafting system that WordPress does. That said, the format and content control here is great. At any rate, this blog post is actually rather delinquent since among other things I haven't actually blogged about my dissertation since that one post with the wordle. Past the jump you'll find a little about the diss including the figure for the model of raid leadership tasks I've developed, and some other odds and ends.

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