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What Should We Make Of Standards?: Barbara Biber Lecture, Vito Perrone
What Should We Make Of Standards?: Barbara Biber Lecture, Vito Perrone
Occasional Paper Series
In a lecture dedicated to Barbara Biber, Perrone offers a brief perspective on her work and then discusses the Standards movement at the time - 1999. This essay offers a criticism of the movement and how it is far removed from the individual learning experience. Standardization dominated educational discourse at the time and continues to do so now.
Student Resistance And Standardization In Schools, Frank Pignatelli
Student Resistance And Standardization In Schools, Frank Pignatelli
Occasional Paper Series
A criticism of the current climate of public schools where standardization is key, compliance is rewarded, and resistance is met with lowered status and increased scrutiny. This article asserts that acts of resistance can be crucial opportunities to promote a student’s moral, political, and intellectual development. Civic education, student agency, conflict management, and communities of inquiry are areas that require attention and application in the classroom.