(NAME-MCE) Name-mce Digest, Vol 805, Issue 2

Mon May 5 12:21:07 EDT 2008

Thank you Paul Gorski  for sharing those comments and information on
research/responses to Ruby Payne's work. I have had my own reservations
but lacked the time to check it out myself. This clearly points out just
how important it is for us to be habitually critical of material texts
and training before we embrace them. Thank you, Dr. McClean 

Dr. Marva McClean
Curriculum Specialist
Pembroke Pines Charter Middle School
West Campus, Room # 113
18500 Pembroke Road
Pembroke Pines, FL 33029
954-443-4847 Phone
954-447-1691 Fax

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Today's Topics:

   1.  Ignore the "Invitation from Yolanda" email (YSealey at aol.com)
   2.  Parent Involvement Liaison Certificate Program June 5-6	Los
      Angeles CA (Anselmo Villanueva)
   3.  FW: Your Upcoming Payne Workshop (Paul C. Gorski)
   4.  Last chance this year to acquire innovative and free US
      materials (Thomas Ladenburg)

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Message: 1
Date: Sun, 4 May 2008 00:08:03 EDT
From: YSealey at aol.com
Subject: (NAME-MCE) Ignore the "Invitation from Yolanda" email
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Hello,

If you receive an email with the above text in the subject line, please
ignore it.

An email was sent to me from someone I know, I responded to this and
apparently an email was sent to everyone in my address book.

I apologize for any inconvenience.

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Message: 2
Date: Sun, 4 May 2008 08:36:35 -0700
From: "Anselmo Villanueva" <anselmo.villanueva at gmail.com>
Subject: (NAME-MCE) Parent Involvement Liaison Certificate Program
	June 5-6	Los Angeles CA
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Parent Involvement Liaison Certificate Program

June 5-6, 2008  Almansor Court, Los Angeles, California

California Parent Center

Beth Sondak  bsondak at projects.sdsu.edu  619.594.4756

http://parent.sdsu.edu/

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Message: 3
Date: Sun, 4 May 2008 22:10:00 -0600
From: "Paul C. Gorski" <gorski at edchange.org>
Subject: (NAME-MCE) FW: Your Upcoming Payne Workshop
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Hello, friends.

I thought you might enjoy the following letter, which I emailed to the
Missouri State Teachers Association at the urging of a few of its
members, concerned over its hosting of a two-day Ruby Payne training.

Paul

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Paul C. Gorski
Founder, EdChange:  <http://www.edchange.org/> www.EdChange.org Social
Justice News:  <http://www.socialjusticenews.net/>
www.SocialJusticeNews.net
Multicultural Pavilion:  <http://www.edchange.org/multicultural>
www.EdChange.org/multicultural
SoJust History Project:  <http://www.sojust.net/> www.SoJust.net
Feminist Tees Shop: www.cafepress.com/feminist_tees Social Justice
Store:  <http://www.cafepress.com/edchange>
www.cafepress.com/edchange
Multicultural Poster Store: www.edchange.org/posters
NAME:  <http://www.nameorg.org/> www.nameorg.org

-----Original Message-----
From: Paul C. Gorski [mailto:gorski at edchange.org]
Sent: Sunday, May 04, 2008 10:06 PM
To: 'kking at msta.org'; 'bmoe at msta.org'; 'gmmcray at msta.org';
'chrdina at msta.org'; 'rharmon at msta.org'
Cc: 'Paul C. Gorski'
Subject: Your Upcoming Payne Workshop

Hello MSTA Board,

Did you know that by hosting Ruby Payne you are spending a lot of money
on
somebody whose work has been shown summarily to be both completely wrong
and
extremely oppressive? Did you know that her "framework" is based on a
concept, the "culture of poverty," which was introduced by Oscar Lewis
in
the early 1960s and completely discarded as erroneous and unfounded by
the
early 1970s? Did you know that an analysis of the truth claims in her
book,
A Framework for Understanding Poverty, uncovered hundreds of inaccurate
statements--points throughout her book that conflict directly with
decades
of research on the intersections of poverty and schooling? Did you know
that
not a single leading scholar (as in, people who base their work on
research
and collect their own data, who make "data-driven decisions" as we like
to
say in education) or anti-poverty activist has endorsed her work, and
most
have rallied to point out the destructiveness of her work?

Did you know that low-income adults actually work more hours per week
than
their wealthier counterparts?

Did you know that decades of research has shown that low-income parents
hold
the exact same attitudes toward education as wealthy parents, but that
they
don't enjoy the same access to involvement because parent involvement is
usually structured around assumptions that people don't work multiple
jobs?

Did you know that wealthy people are more likely than low-income people
to
be substance abusers?

Did you know that most low-income people are hard-working, ethical,
intelligent, and non-violent? Did you know that these people are
invisible
in Ruby Payne's work?

Did you know that sessions critiquing Payne's work have been delivered
at
all of the top education conferences in the country, including the AERA
conference? Did you know that some of the top journals in the country
have
published articles critiquing her work? Did you know that not a single
one
of these journals has published an article supporting her work or
showing it
to be effective?

Did you know that Ruby Payne has contributed thousands of dollars to
extreme
right-wing politicians? Did you know she has written several articles in
support of No Child Left Behind despite being from Texas, where its
precursors were devastating to low-income students?

Did you know that Ruby Payne self-publishes and that she's making
millions
of dollars through a for-profit organization that she founded? 

Did you know that Payne has never worked in a high-poverty school?

Did you know that researchers in Indiana are about to release an article
that shows empirically how Payne's work increases stereotyping among
teachers who participate in her workshops?

The fact that most of us in education don't know these things--that we
continue to use Payne's work despite the fact that it's not grounded in
any
sort of reality--is symptomatic of why our schools are so rife with
class
inequities and why we've made hardly a dent in these inequities. We're
fighting a battle that we don't understand because we're trying to
understand it through lenses smeared with inaccuracy and prejudice. We'd
never teach math teachers that 2+2=8, then encourage them to use that
knowledge in their own classrooms. But we will teach them that
low-income
students are incapable, have uncaring parents, can't communicate, tend
toward violence--all things she argues which are 100% false--and send
them
into their classrooms to apply this bias in their interactions with
low-income students and their families.

At the very least, I implore you to bring somebody else in, as
well--somebody who can challenge the damage Payne will do.

Please see attached several of the aforementioned articles. Just a
sampling.

Paul

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Paul C. Gorski
Founder, EdChange:  <http://www.edchange.org/> www.EdChange.org
Social Justice News:  <http://www.socialjusticenews.net/>
www.SocialJusticeNews.net
Multicultural Pavilion:  <http://www.edchange.org/multicultural>
www.EdChange.org/multicultural
SoJust History Project:  <http://www.sojust.net/> www.SoJust.net
Feminist Tees Shop: www.cafepress.com/feminist_tees
Social Justice Store:  <http://www.cafepress.com/edchange>
www.cafepress.com/edchange
Multicultural Poster Store: www.edchange.org/posters
NAME:  <http://www.nameorg.org/> www.nameorg.org

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Message: 4
Date: Sat, 03 May 2008 12:34:03 -0400
From: Thomas Ladenburg <t.ladenburg at verizon.net>
Subject: (NAME-MCE) Last chance this year to acquire innovative and
	free US	materials
To: <name-mce at nameorg.org>
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 I am still offering  copies of what I and many others consider to be
the
best supplementary free material available for making US History classes
more interesting and meaningful. Do you want an informed discussion,
trial,
simulation, or only a  more in-depth understanding of important episodes
in
your US History class ? simply email me and I'll send you two lists of
free
units and lesson-chapters ? one for average high school students, and
the
other accessible for all in high and many in middle school. My latest
units
at the more accessible level are on the Civil Rights Movement and the
Vietnam War.

Tom Ladenburg
t.ladenburg at verizon.net

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