From John Dewey's "The School and Society," pp100: It was forgotten that the maximum appeal, and the full meaning in the life of the child, could be secured only when the studies were presented, not as bare external studies, but from the standpoint of the relation they bear to the life ...

I was just reading through the Wired article on Facebook's role in the Burma protests. The marches, organized at a lightning pace by volunteers using Facebook, show the increasing power and reach of a social-networking site originally designed to help college students find drinking buddies. An interesting theme which runs through the ...

I Just read through the Center on Education Policy's "Choices, Changes, and Challenges: Curriculum and Instruction in the NCLB Era" report. The report examines the effect that the No Child Left Behind act has had on curriculum and instructional time in public education in the 5 years since it was ...

While reading Walter Lippmann's "A Preface to Politics" my attention was mainly drawn to his discussion of the red herring. The red herring -- a metaphor used to describe the obfuscation of, or distraction from, a particular object(ive) -- is portrayed by Lippmann (1913, p261) as both "pest" and "benefit," ...

Back in 2002, a school system in Tennessee paid Edutech Inc. a reported $131,590 to install CCTV surveillance cameras in its 7 schools. In at least one of these schools, the cameras were installed in the locker rooms. The recordings of 10-14 year-old boys and girls, which were produced ...

Embracing the so called 'cybercity' as a specific unit of analysis, my second doctoral exam reading list will explore how processes of education and citizen participation are transmuted by the cybercity and how these transmuted processes in turn produce and reproduce the cybercity. In order for this exploration to begin ...

This research blog has been setup to assist me in preparing for my second doctoral exam. This blog will hopefully afford me a space where the scholarly content of my reading list can interact with popular culture as well as my thoughts and experiences. In addition, this blog will help ...

This post has been imported from the NML Research Blog... Lately I’ve been trying to resist the trend of slapping “2.0″ on to the end of everything, but I couldn’t help myself this time. 2.0 or Web 2.0, as many of you may know, is a term developed by the folks ...