Fawned over by the would-be glitterati, Matt Damon’s speech to the Save Our Schools rally in DC received wide accolades as a clear-headed, common-sense speech that spoke to Everyteacher. There are transcripts all over the internet, but here is a … Continue reading
150 years ago at Little Creek two miles east of Chapel Hill…
Louisville, KY: May 13, 2011 Two archery teams from The Roger Bacon Academy – Charter Day School competed nationally against 300 other teams and over 6,000 archers. The teams’ scores from both elementary school and middle school qualified them both to go … Continue reading
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Background A recent paper (1) published by The John William Pope Center for Higher Education Policy discusses the conflict between the educational objectives desired by the general public and the different objectives implemented by the state’s schools of education which … Continue reading
Dear NC Representatives, Congratulations on introducing HB 823 to amend the constitution and put the future of our children in the hands of a Superintendent elected by the people of North Carolina. Thank you. As you know, the all-powerful 8-year … Continue reading
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May 3, 2011 Re: Senate Bill 724 – An Act to Improve Public Education Dear Senator: Thank you for your efforts to improve education in North Carolina. Unfortunately, the addition of the new paragraph to 115C-296(b) will not accomplish anything … Continue reading
Dear Baker, Some of your remarks are not in good taste even though they may be accurate. I am a big fan, but some of your phrasing makes me uncomfortable. Could you please be more civil? Comfy Conservative … Continue reading
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by Carson Robison and the Pioneers April 10, 2004 – With the sudden collapse of vaudeville in 1928 due to the “talkies,” many top entertainment stars were suddenly looking for new venues for their talents. At a chance NY city … Continue reading
by Susan Pass
August 30, 2008 – How anyone can read Vygotsky’s work and conclude that he was a constructivist is beyond me. Pass doesn’t get a pass twisting Vygotsky for her own purposes. Forget her. Read Vygotsky and Piaget for yourself and see the polar opposites.
By L. S. Vygotsky (???Author???), Michael Cole (Editor), Vera John-Steiner (Editor), Sylvia Scribner (Editor), Ellen Souberman (Editor)
Revisionist Vygotsky – Save your money! 
January 4, 2009 – This reissue of a 1978 reprint is supposedly a collection of Russian psychologist Vygotsky’s essays (he died in 1934) as translated from the Russian by A.R. Luria, one of his students.
The “editors” claim that after a cursory study of Luria’s translations “we came to believe that the image of Vygotsky as a sort of early neobehaviorist of cognitive development – an impression held by many of our colleagues- was strongly belied by these two works.”
Nice. A cursory study is able to strong belie widely held impressions that are based on decades of studying Vygotsky’s own 1934 book Thought and Language, among his other works. One has to wonder at the degree to which revisionism is taking place when the editors state in the preface:
“In putting separate essays together we have taken significant liberties. The reader will encounter here not a literal translation of Vygotsky but rather our edited translation of Vygotsky from which we have omitted material that seemed redundant and to which we have added material that seemed to make his points clearer.”
Hmmmm. Will the real Vygotsky please stand up!
Save your money and first get Kozulin’s version of “Thought and Language.” One must question the amount of trustworthy scholarship in “Mind in Society.”
