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  1. Feb 2017
    1. There have been attacks on the professional autonomy of teachers as arbiters of truth.

      Teachers are vulnerable to the affective economies of truth telling

    2. Arendt maintain

      Appeal to emotion, rhetoric

    1. Across the United States, test publishers, software companies, and virtual charter school companies moved rapidly to sell pressured schools, districts, and states the products that they needed to comply with NCLB, frequently at a high price tag.

      Thus removing the ability of controling assessment from education experts in schools and giving it to large corporations

    1. ed. It is

      Difference, then, is thematic. The themes determine the genre and not so much the utterance itself, which is imbued in multiple practices.

  2. Oct 2016
    1. Bearing in mind that two years later, after learning to speak, read and write in French, Leticia is still close to failure, we can say that the Luxembourgish school, functioning like many other schools (Franquiz & de la Ruz Reyes, 1998 Franquiz, M.A. and de la Luz Reyes, M. 1998. Creating inclusive learning communities through English language arts: From chanclas to canicas. Language Arts, 75: 211–220. ), could not grant her the time nor the support necessary to develop efficient strategies within our trilingual meaning-oriented school-system

      Who failed what? The student or the teacher? Also issue with data interpretation and epistemological stance that need to be disentangled.