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The First to Worst Movie - You Can See it on YouTube
Part 1 is here - the other parts are shown on the right of the screen http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTtAdJi1AjQ&feature=related
Background on First to Worst
Teaching Materials
- Summary of sections of First to Worst, plus claims and strategies
- Introduction to Rhetorical Strategies:
- Visual texts to introduce rhetorical strategies:
- Print texts to introduce rhetorical strategies:
- Mixture of print and visual texts to introduce rhetorical strategies:
- A collection of different kinds of print and visual texts can be useful to emphasize how authors use different kinds of strategies, even when the argument is the same. The following texts all make a similar argument about the Texas Board of Education's decisions to change their textbooks.
- "Texas Should Not Define Education." An editorial from SDSU's student newspaper, The Daily Aztec (March 22, 2010).
- "Don't Mess with Texas....Textbooks," by Chuck Norris. Human Events, March 16, 2010.
- Episode of The Daily Show. (The segment on the Texas Board of Education begins at 9:13 and ends at 14:15.)
- Segment from The Colbert Report, "I's On Edjukashun." (From March 16, 2010 episode). Features historian Eric Foner
- "Twisting History in Texas," by Eric Foner, The Nation, March 18, 2010. Could be used to compare strategies - Foner on Colbert, Foner in the Nation.
- Cartoon: "Texas Schoolboard Bookburning." By Monte Wolverton, March 14, 2010. http://blog.cagle.com/2010/03/14/texas-schoolboard-bookburning
- Cartoon: On the Texas School Board of Education vote. March 17, 2010 cartoon published in the Atlantis Journal-Constitution by Mike Luckovich.
- Lesson Plans:
- Past Prompts:
Teaching the Crisis - Related Texts to Use for the Strategies Paper
- Segment of Oprah show comparing poor and wealthy schools that covers some of the same ground the First to Worst does, but uses different strategies.
- Short videos that could be used to discuss strategies or model student projects
- Megan Fox, Brian Austin Green In 'Hot For Teachers.” Megan Fox and Brian Austin Green speak out about the budget cuts affecting teachers and kids in California. http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/7d5ec0278e/megan-fox-is-hot-for-teachers (see alsohttp://saynotocuts.com/)
- Billionaires for Fee Hikes attack UCSD. Video by UCSD students protesting fee increases and arguing that equity and access is being undermined. Heavy use of satire and parody. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BrKcgMep1TM
- University of California: Priceless. Short (1 minute) video by students at UCSD protesting fee increases. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0OQtp1UJpOo&feature=related
- UC Crisis: Education is a right. Not a privilege. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-U1nZA9KO40&feature=related
- Hitler Finds Out About the California Budget Crisis http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMDUMVCZbcQThe funniest advocacy ad ever
- Newsweek article on education and the need to fire poor teachers. Cover: http://www.newsweek.com/id/234599 Stories:http://www.newsweek.com/id/234590 and http://www.newsweek.com/id/234592
- NPR debate about the role of teacher's unions in the crisis facing K-12 education in California. Part of the "intelligence squared" debate series.
- NPR debate "Is California the First Failed State?" Part of the "intelligence squared" debate series. PDF Transcript
- Social class and education - video produced by students explaining/satirizing theories about disproportionate school failure by poor and minorities SDSU only able to admit 10% of applicants this year - record low.
- http://www.salon.com/technology/how_the_world_works/2010/01/05/america_and_california_decline
http://letters.salon.com/tech/htww/2010/01/05/america_and_california_decline/view/?show=all
- Huge list of texts related to the budget crisis, education in California, and related topics. By Christian Fosen at CSU Chico.
- "California's higher-education debacle: Watching the decline of the California State University system from within its boardroom mirrors the erosion of the California dream." By Jeff Bleich. LA Times. See also a list of LA Times reader comments that respond to the op-ed by Bleich
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Hamid Shirvani, Will a Culture of Entitlement Bankrupt Higher Education? Chronicle article by Hamid Shirvani, president of CSU-Stanislaus. (CSU-Stanislaus faculty responded to Shirvani's article angrily, with 92% subsequently voting no confidence in him).
- California Faculty Association White paper criticising what it argues is the restructuring of the CSU: http://restructuringcsu.wordpress.com/
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Joseph Palermo Fiddling While Rome Burns Jim Miller, English professor at San Diego City College
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"California: Killing the Goose that Lays the Golden Eggs." Huffington Post, December 1, 2009.
- OPRAH segment on differences in the quality of schools in rich and poor neighborhoods. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEczvyM3Boc&feature=related
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California School Finance in Plain English http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wsu2L5jfIFA&feature=related
- Understanding California's School Funding Crisis http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHWqTMwZMiw&NR=1
- Jonathan Kozol on the politics of education youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7VS9XHbEaFY&feature=related
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Scott Jaschik, "The Big Admissions Shift." Inside Higher Ed, December 1, 2009. "Here's the big story in admissions this year: The nation's largest higher education system (and its most diverse) is shifting from being de facto a non-competitive admissions university to a competitive one. Getting into the California State University System's 23 campuses (which educate 450,000 students) has just become iffy for many -- especially for those attracted to certain campuses and certain majors."
- "U.S. schools chief: State longshot for stimulus." http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/05/22/BAR617PKQK.DTL "Honestly, California has lost its way," Duncan told dozens of the state's mayors and education officials who packed into San Francisco City Hall on Friday morning. He was even more blunt in admonishing a lunch crowd of educators and executives at the Palace Hotel on Market Street: "Your state once had the best education system in the country. From cradle to career, you took care of your children. You made sure they were ready to enter your universities or be productive participants in the workforce. "I ask you, is California going to lead the race to the top, or are you going to lead the retreat?"
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Misc Related Links
http://calfac.org/allpdf/frontpage/CFA_White_Paper-Restructuring%20Winter_09_10.pdf
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/11/13/BADC1AJG4C.DTL
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/11/29/IN2H1ALA7P.DTL
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"Students Face a Class Struggle at State Colleges," a Jan. 2010 New York Times article about the CSU system, focusing on a student at SFSU: "Welcome to state-run higher education in California. Mr. Macias is just one of more than 26,000 students at San Francisco State, and now educational opportunities cost more and are harder to grasp and even harder to hold onto than ever before."
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California Budget Woes Hurt University System - 13 minute NPR story describing what has happened to CSU and UC system, and problems facing students
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