(NAME-MCE) "Ruby Payne workshop"
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What I find particularly disturbing is that people are judging Ruby
Payne and her work and they admit that they have never heard of her nor
have they read anything about her work. They appear to be making their
assessements or judgments based on Gorski's comments. As educational
leaders it is a wise thing to do independent research and come to
independent conclusions. I also find it very enlightening and somewhat
amusing to know that both Gorski and Payne are published in April's Ed
Leadership. Ed Leadership is a well respected educational journal.
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From: Fanale, Theresa S <tfana2 at uis.edu>
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Sent: Wed, 7 May 2008 1:55 pm
Subject: Re: (NAME-MCE) "Ruby Payne workshop"
I find it disturbing that this woman has so many negative allegations
surrounding her work, and yet people on the Missouri State Teacher
Association
would actually spend their time absorbing her nonsense. I find it all
too
common nowadays to instantly stereotype children without knowing all
the facts.
I do believe that districts should include workshops and seminars to
tackle the
topics that we as educators face, however, it by the way it sounds in
Mr.
Gorski's letter, more "homework" needs to be done on who is chosen as a
speaker
before releasing their bias views on teachers. Personally, I have
never heard
of Ruby Payne, but I will defiantly keep a eye and ear out for her
work. Thanks
for the info.
Theresa Fanale
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Please?post as a question
Metrics
I was hoping some of you would be willing to share any information or
assessment
tools you have on measuring a diversity/inclusion initiative for a
school or
school district.? We are using Dr Ray Terrell's Cultural Proficiency
model in
one of the largest school districts in Ohio and want to be sure over
the next
2-3 years we are capturing our success.? We have just begun the process
with
forming an Inclusion Leadership Council (Internal for the
Superintendent) and
will them form a Community Advisory Council.? Other parts of our plan
include
enough training to staff are culturally proficient, assessing
disproportionality
data, School Equity Councils at all of the schools, family engagement
sessions,
student engagements sessions, a cultural audit, an evaluation of HR
practices
and much more.
Do any of you have assessment tools you would be willing to share on
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3. FW: Your Upcoming Payne Workshop (Paul C. Gorski)
4. Last chance this year to acquire innovative and free US
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Date: Sun, 4 May 2008 08:36:35 -0700
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Subject: (NAME-MCE) Parent Involvement Liaison Certificate Program
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Parent Involvement Liaison Certificate Program
June 5-6, 2008 Almansor Court, Los Angeles, California
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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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Founder, EdChange: <http://www.edchange.org/> www.EdChange.org
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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
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Date: Sat, 03 May 2008 12:34:03 -0400
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Date: Tue, 6 May 2008 08:25:22 -0700
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Subject: (NAME-MCE) New Report: Asian American Students Do Not Benefit
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the No
Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) that must be overhauled in order to meet
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Language Learners (ELLs) are currently set up to fail under NCLB.
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country, AALDEF illustrates how this marginalized community is falling
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spotlight on particular school districts where Asian American ELL
students
are the most visible and also highly vulnerable due to the lack of
appropriate services.
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quality of public education. Instead, Asian Americans-- especially
immigrant, poor and non-English speaking students--have been left
behind to
fend for themselves in securing basic educational services. "
Key recommendations from AALDEF's report propose several major changes
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Provide targeted language services for Asian American ELLs, since
nearly a
quarter of all Asian American students are ELLs. Among those between
the
ages 5 and 17, over half of Hmong Americans, 39% of Vietnamese
Americans,
and 34% of Bangladeshi Americans are ELLs.
Use absolute numerical thresholds and/or population ratios in smaller
districts or counties (rather than states) to determine the need for
native
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specific
neighborhoods throughout the country. For example, Vietnamese-speaking
ELLs
in Seattle constitute 16% of all ELLs in the city, but only 4% of the
total
ELL population in the state of Washington . If native language
materials
were available only for language minority groups that made up at least
10%
of ELLs in a state, then large numbers of Vietnamese-speaking ELLs
would not
benefit from native language materials.
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limit the use of testing-based sanctions to abate high dropout rates
among
ELL students. In New York City , the class of 2006's ELL population
had a
dropout rate of 30% compared to 6.9% of all students citywide.
Provide states with funds to hire more ESL specialists, bilingual
education
specialists, and teachers bilingual in Asian languages. Although
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is
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in the
state.
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interpreters, and conduct community education for immigrant families.
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isolated.
Require every state to collect comprehensive student data that is
disaggregated by ethnicity, native language, socioeconomic status, ELL
status, and ELL program type. Without this information, the educational
needs of individual groups are concealed and will remain unaddressed.
Copies of Left in the Margins: Asian American Students and the No Child
Left
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