(NAME-MCE) Name-mce Digest, Vol 805, Issue 2
Sandra BERNABEI
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Mon May 5 14:43:05 EDT 2008
Thank you Paul Gorski!
From the AntiRacistAlliance.com
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On May 5, 2008, at 12:21 PM, "Marva McClean"
<mmcclean at PinesCharter.com> wrote:
>
>
> 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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> 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
> To: YSealey at aol.com
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> Hello,
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> 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.
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> I apologize for any inconvenience.
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> Thanks,
>
> Yolanda
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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
> To: name-mce at nameorg.org
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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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>
> ------------------------------
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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
> To: "'Multicultural Pavilion's discussion group on equity, social
> justice, and multicultural education.'"
> <mcp at edchange.org>,
> <name-mce at nameorg.org>, <rs at criticalteach.org>
> Cc: team at edchange.org
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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
>
> ******************************
> 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>
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> -----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
>
> ******************************
> 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
>
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> 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>
> Message-ID: <C4420C3B.30AA%t.ladenburg at verizon.net>
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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
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> trial,
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> episodes
> in
> your US History class ? simply email me and I'll send you two lists of
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> the
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> Vietnam War.
>
>
> Tom Ladenburg
> t.ladenburg at verizon.net
>
>
>
>
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