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A collection of interesting, important, and controversial perspectives largely excluded from the american mainstream media. Reviewed by kip tllez university of california, santa cruz the term incommensurable refers to the dilemma encountered when one tries to. The states expert witness expected to testify on oct. She is author of losing our language encounter books, 2002, editor of whats at stake in the. Sandra stotsky news newspapers books scholar jstor march 2012 learn how and when to remove this template message. Basic descriptions and plot devices are figurative. Sandra stotsky writes about this in her book, losing our language and i am starting to agree with her. Her research ranges from the quality of teacher licensure tests to the question of gender bias in the english curriculum. Four indigenous languages have the status of national language. According to the paper, stotsky s technique is to lift short passages.
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Stotsky served on common cores validation committee 20092010. Sandra stotsky, a doctor of education at harvard, in her book losing our language, even claims that education has been taken over for political ends, to the extent that goals like teaching students to read are often secondary to the goal of cultural enlightenment. For a limited time, your first 30 days on a monthly subscription of at least three months is just 99 cents. She served as senior associate commissioner at the massachusetts department of elementary and secondary education from 19992003, where she was in charge of developing or revising all the states k12 standards, teacher licensure tests, and teacher and administrator licensure regulations. Her research ranges from the quality of teacher licensure tests to. In american textbook council reports and in persuasive books such as sandra stotsky, losing our language and diane ravitch, the language police, textbook critics reach the same conclusions. Her research ranges from the quality of teacher licensure tests e. Also, common core reduces both literary study and the opportunity for kids to develop critical thinking skills. How multicultural classroom instruction is undermining our childrens ability to read, write, and reason, the free press, new york, ny. Europe may be the first domino to fall, but others will surely follow.
Textbook content is thinner and thinner, and what there is, is increasingly deformed by identity politics and pressure groups. Sandra stotsky is an advocate of standardsbased reform and strong academic standards and assessments for students and teachers she is now professor of education reform in the department of education reform at the university of arkansas, and holds the 21st century chair in teacher quality. I raise these only as questions because i believe that university researchers should not presume to tell high school educators what they should or should not do. Education books eclectic homeschool resource center. According to stotsky, a research associate at the harvard graduate school of education, increasingly dumbeddown elementary school textbooks have been lowering t if johnny cant read, blame the books.
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