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Spring_2010_Gladwell_Politics_Education
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- First Weeks & Short Texts
- Week 1 - Introducing the Course & Key Concepts
- Week 2 - Applying Concepts to Short Texts
- Weeks 2-3 Using Bleich and/or Rifkin's "A Change of Heart" to Prepare for First Assignment
- Other Short Texts & Materials
- Unit 1: Postman's "The Word Weavers/World Makers"
- Introducing Postman
- Background Material for Postman
- Postman Teaching Materials
- Sample Schedules and Class Plans for Unit 1
- Prereading 1: thinking about definitions, metaphors and questions
- Prereading 2: Jigsaw Work, Discussion, & Group Work
- The Assignment: introducing, scoring, rubrics and sample papers
- Working with Postman - charting, PACES, Analysis and Strategies
- Drafting & Peer Review
- Unit 2 Gladwell's Outliers: the Story of Success
- Outliers Background Info: reviews, interviews, and excerpts
- Texts that relate to Gladwell and can be used for assignment 2
- Related texts that complicate, challenge, illustrate, extend, etc.
- Reviews that complicate, challenge, illustrate, extend, etc.
- Gladwell's Outliers: Teaching Resources
- Sample Schedules and Class Plans for Unit 2
- The Assignment, Grading and Rubrics
- Drafting and Peer Review
- Researching, Finding/Evaluating Sources, Creating an Annotated Bibliography, and Avoiding Plagiarism
- Possible Links to Rhetorical Analysis Paper
- UNIT 3
- Background on First to Worst
- Teaching Materials
- Teaching the Crisis - Related Texts to Use for the Strategies Paper
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First Weeks & Short Texts
Week 1 - Introducing the Course & Key Concepts
Week 2 - Applying Concepts to Short Texts
- Powerpoint files: using rhetorical concepts to examine advertisements and short texts. File 1, and File 2.
Weeks 2-3 Using Bleich and/or Rifkin's "A Change of Heart" to Prepare for First Assignment
- BLEICH, "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." LA Times. Original online version on LA Times site is here. See also a list of LA Times reader comments that respond to the op-ed by Bleich.
- Huge list of short texts related to the budget crisis, education in California, and related topics. By Christian Fosen at CSU Chico.
- RIFKIN, "A Change of Heart About Animals." Los Angeles Times, September 1, 2003.
- Text you could use to start discussion of Rifkin - it's about Michael Vick's imprisonment. Asks why we don't seem to care about cruelty to pigs, but care very much about cruelty to dogs. http://theconversation.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/19/michael-vicks-apology/
- How to chart a text, plus Rifkin charted (from course reader)
- Introducing Key Concepts with examples from Rifkin - descriptions of charting, project, argument, claims, evidence, and strategies, with examples and model paragraphs that use Rifkin. (By Melissa Watson - still in draft phase, feel free to improve, remix and re-post.)
- The Rhetorical Precis + Drafting Paper 1 Using Rifkin as model. Draft introductions, discussions of textual organization and strategies using Rifkin. (By Melissa Watson - still in draft phase, feel free to improve, remix and re-post.)
- Reading, discussing and analysing Rikfin: Some discussion starters, strategies for reading, and a homework assignment. 9 Sample analyses of Rifin, and yet more sample student analyses.
Other Short Texts & Materials
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SubText, a short video that is good for introducing rhetoric, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=400w4XnjElI
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Kid Rock, "Citizen Soldier" video A music video produced by Kid Rock as a recruiting tool for the National Guard. The video was shown often in cinemas before the start of movies several years ago. It is a rich text for discussing issues of persuasion, argument, rhetorical strategy, audience, etc. Also comes with Video of Kid Rock talking about making of "Citizen Soldier", shooting the video with the National Guard and Dale Earnhardt Jr.
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Brooks, "The End of Philosophy." Op-ed about study of morality from evolutionary perspective.
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“Would You Slap Your Father? If So, You’re a Liberal.” NICHOLAS KRISTOF, NYT, May 27, 2009.
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Kristof, "When Our Brains Short Circuit," http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/02/opinion/02kristof.html
- David Foster Wallace's Commencement Speech "This is Water" Alicia has prepared a batch of teaching materials for this:
1. The text charted,
2. A breakdown of Foster Wallace's argument
- David Barash "The Roar of the Crowd: Sports fans' primal behavior." The Chronicle of Higher Education, March 20, 2009.
- Citizen Enforcers Take Aim." NYT article about patterns in the way people, and some animals, approach revenge, justice, and forgiveness.
- Marketing, Shopping & Evolution http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/19/science/19tier.html?em
- Peter Singer, "The Singer Solution to World Poverty," New York Times Magazine,September 05, 1999
- From Elle magazine, an article on High School Musical. Text only version here.
Unit 1: Postman's "The Word Weavers/World Makers"
Introducing Postman
Background Material for Postman
Postman Teaching Materials
Sample Schedules and Class Plans for Unit 1
Prereading 1: thinking about definitions, metaphors and questions
- Powerpoint on the politics of definition - examples of race, sexuality, medical condition, etc.
- The Daily show: "Tortured Logic" Excerpt explores the way torture has been defined
- The Daily Shows and rhetorical questions. TDS explores news media use of leading questions, the issue of framing, agency, responsibility, etc.
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HOW DOES OUR LANGUAGE SHAPE THE WAY WE THINK? By Lera Boroditsky, Edge, 6.12.09. This short, accesible article explores some ways language shapes thought.
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"The Americanization of Mental Health," ETHAN WATTERS, New York Times Magazine, January 08, 2010. This fascinating magazine article explores the way different cultures have defined mental illness, and how in recent years the influence of American definitions, drug companies, and a series of other factors have led to the increasing influence of American definitions of mental health.
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Taking Marriage private, Stephanie Coontz - New York Times article exploring different definitions of marriage over the ages. Could be used as part of a discussion of how definitions are constructed, and what marriage currently means, particularly in the current context of debates about definitions of marriage/gay marriage. Could be paired with "The Evolution of Matrimony." This is a short, simple article by social historian Stephanie Coontz that explores the very different ways in which marriage has been understood in the past. For example, Coontz points out the most commonly approved form of marriage across the ages was polygamy, and that until the 1980s, marital rape was considered a contradiction in terms and was almost impossible to prosecute in most Western countries.
Prereading 2: Jigsaw Work, Discussion, & Group Work
The Assignment: introducing, scoring, rubrics and sample papers
Working with Postman - charting, PACES, Analysis and Strategies
Drafting & Peer Review
Unit 2 Gladwell's Outliers: the Story of Success
Outliers Background Info: reviews, interviews, and excerpts
- From Gladwell's blog, "What is Outliers about?" http://www.gladwell.com/outliers/index.html
- The Outliers Wiki
- "Gladwell for Dummies." A smart, incisive and rather brutal review of Gladwell's entire writings, including Outliers, by Maureen Tkacik in The Nation.
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Salon review of Outliers, http://www.salon.com/books/review/2008/11/17/gladwell/index.html
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Time magazine review of Outliers, http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1858880,00.html
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Charlie Rose video interview with Gladwell, http://www.charlierose.com/view/interview/9855#
- CBC interview http://www.cbc.ca/spark/2008/12/video-malcolm-gladwell-on-outliers/
- Macleans interview with Gladwell, http://www2.macleans.ca/2008/11/21/macleans-interview-malcolm-gladwell/print/
- Guardian interview with Gladwell, http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2008/nov/16/malcolm-gladwell-interview-outliers
- GLADWELL EXCERPT - the first chapter of the book
- Gladwell responds to David Brooks, http://gladwell.typepad.com/gladwellcom/2008/12/brooks-on-outliers.html
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Commentary review of Gladwell: http://www.commentarymagazine.com/viewarticle.cfm/outliers--the-story-of-success-by-malcolm-gladwell-14689
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New Scientist review of the book
Texts that relate to Gladwell and can be used for assignment 2
Related texts that complicate, challenge, illustrate, extend, etc.
- Collective list of source texts to use with Gladwell from ITC - put your links and ideas here
- "What It Takes to Make a Student," by PAUL TOUGH, New York Times Magazine, November 26, 2006. This article examines the success of "No Child Left Behind" bill, and engages in a careful review of research on the factors that lead to educational success. The article pays particular attention to research on programs that target poor and at-risk youth. The text provides a useful counterpoint to Gladwell, as it draws on some of the same researchers as Gladwell (for example Lareau) and examines the KIPP program that is at the center of chapter 9. Tough presents a much more complex account of the issues Gladwell examines, and does so by situating these issues in relation to a much broader range of scholarship.
- "Social Class and the Hidden Curriculum of Work," JEAN ANYON. (First published in the Journal of Education, Vol. 162, no. 1, Fall 1980.)
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"Schools that Beat the Odds," by Harry Brighouse. Brighouse is an educational researcher who writes on a group blog with many other scholars. The blog post considers recent work on schools that "beat the odds." It includes discussion of the KIPP program that is at the center of chapter 9 of Outliers. The blog post is fairly accessible, and also contains a number of responses by readers.
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"High Flying Schools, Student Disadvantage and the Logic of NCLB," by Douglas N. Harris. Published in American Journal Education (2007), Vol. 113, n. 3, pp. 367-394. The paper is skeptical of the degree to which school programs that are often celebrated (and which are mentioned by Gladwell) can in fact have the impact claimed on poor schools. The paper's results "suggest the continued need to address home and community factors in the pursuit of educational equity."
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"What Makes a Great Teacher?" by Amanda Ripley. Article about research studies conducted by Teach for America and others arguing that the characteristics of the teacher are most important in determining student learning. The article is somewhat lacking in statistics and concrete examples, but clearly complicates Gladwell's argument about KIPP (and, for that matter, the 10,000 hour rule).
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"More than Just Race: Being Black and Poor in the Inner City," William Julius Wilson, Poverty & Race Research Action Council, vol 18, no. 3.
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"Voluntary and Involuntary Minorities: A Cultural-Ecological Theory of School Performance with Some Implications for Education." John U. Ogbu and Herbert D. Simons. Anthropology & Education Quarterly, Volume 29. Issue 2. June 1998.
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"Coming to terms: a discussion of John Ogbu’s cultural-ecological theory of minority academic achievement." Kevin Michael Foster. Intercultural Education. Vol. 15, No. 4, December 2004
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“Ogbu’s theory of academic disengagement: its evolution and its critics.” Douglas Foley Intercultural Education, Vol. 15, No. 4, December 2004.
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Part of an interview of Dave Chappelle by Charlie Rose, where he argues that hard work might help someone who is funny to earn a living, but that the famous comedians are innately great. Complicates Gladwell's argument by adding two levels of success. Could also be used as a research topic (i.e., DC was born in 1973, did that give him advantages others didn't have? His life bio is disclosed in his interview with Lipton in The Actor's Studio).
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CNBC Interview with Bill Gates and Warren Buffett (Nov. 12, 2009). Bill Gates and Warren Buffett answer questions about the "role of luck" in their achievements versus the role of hard work and education. A transcript is available here (click "show entire text" and search for "luck"). A video is available here - the relevant clip is in at 35:40-39:13, though the whole interview is dynamic!
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Gladwell interviewed by Jimmy Kimmel
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Alain de Botton: A kinder, gentler philosophy of success. 20 minute talk at teh TED conference that discusses success in a way that overlaps and extends Gladwell. A transcript of the talk is available on the page.
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Big list of Gladwell intereviews
Reviews that complicate, challenge, illustrate, extend, etc.
Gladwell's Outliers: Teaching Resources
Sample Schedules and Class Plans for Unit 2
The Assignment, Grading and Rubrics
Drafting and Peer Review
Researching, Finding/Evaluating Sources, Creating an Annotated Bibliography, and Avoiding Plagiarism
- Teaching students about research, finding and evaluating sources, creating an annotated bibliography, and avoiding plagiarism. By Emma Lee Whitworth, with editorial assistance from Michael Underwood and Julie Williams.
Possible Links to Rhetorical Analysis Paper
UNIT 3
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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