[net-gold] Question About AP #2
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- Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2011 05:49:30 -0400 (EDT)
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Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2011 20:39:27 -0700
From: Richard Hake <rrhake@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Subject: [Net-Gold] Question About AP #2
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ABSTRACT: In my post "Re: Question About AP" <http://bit.ly/i3uB5u>,
I answered a question effectively posed by Standardisto-basher Susan
Ohanian: "Anyone know of research questioning Advanced Placement?"
Physicist Bernard Cleyet, noting that Susan had run a review of Hans
Ohanian's (2009) book "Einstein's Mistakes" <http://amzn.to/hLUbY0>
asked (paraphrasing): "Is Susan Ohanian any relation to Hans Ohanian?"
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Susan, in her comment <http://bit.ly/feISk7> on Valerie Strauss'
(2004) "Back to Basics vs. Hands-On Instruction," answered Cleyet's
question indirectly by writing "When a team of 4th grade
investigators rediscovered Newton's law of gravity. . . . . my
husband, the Ph.D. physicist, confirmed the results." Thus it's a
good bet that Susan and Hans are married.
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BTW - little known to historians of education reform, Stauss' report
played a key role in the CA State Board of Education's sudden
decision on 10 March 2004 to replace its demand that "instructional
materials must compose NO MORE than 20 to 25 percent of hands-on
activities" with the *opposite* demand that "instructional materials
must compose AT LEAST 20 to 25 percent of hands-on activities"! Who
says science journalism is unimportant?
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This amazing story of California's wacky education politics is
detailed in "Direct Science Instruction Suffers a Setback in
California - Or Does It?" [Hake (2004)].
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In my post "Re: Question About AP" [Hake (2011)], I answered a
question effectively posed by Standardista-basher Susan Ohanian:
"Anyone know of research questioning Advanced Placement?"
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In response Bernard Cleyet (2011a) in his Physhare/Phys-L/PhysLrnR
post of 11 April, first quoted from Hake (2011):
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"BTW -Susan Ohanian wages unrelenting battle with the 'Standardistos' at
<http://www.susanohanian.org/>."
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And then wrote [my insert at ". . . . .[[insert]]. . . . ."; my CAPS]:
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"ANY RELATION TO HANS ?. . . . . [[See e.g.:]]. . . . Susan
interviews Hans at <http://bit.ly/gDPPwH> . . .[[regarding his book
"Einstein's Mistakes" (Ohanian, 2008), later corrected by Cleyet
(2011b) to "Joshua Brown (2008) interviews Hans]]. . . . bc listens
to Juan Gonzales. . . . . [[the unwashed are directed to
<http://bit.ly/f1eM1K>]]. . . . . . "
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That Standardisto-basher/author Susan Ohanian <http://huff.to/fJ10o6>
IS related to physicst/author Hans Ohanian <http://bit.ly/f1Bbhe> is
indirectly answered by Susan in her comment <http://bit.ly/feISk7> on
Valerie Strauss' (2004) "Back to Basics vs. Hands-On Instruction."
Susan wrote: "When a team of 4th grade investigators rediscovered
Newton's law of gravity. . . . . my husband, the Ph.D. physicist,
confirmed the results." Thus it's a good bet that Susan and Hans are
married - pity poor Susan, married to a physicist ;-)!
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BTW - little known to historians of education reform, Stauss' report
played a key role in the CA State Board of Education's sudden
decision on 10 March 2004 to replace its demand that "instructional
materials must compose NO MORE than 20 to 25 percent of hands-on
activities" with the *opposite* demand that "instructional materials
must compose AT LEAST 20 to 25 percent of hands-on activities"! Who
says science journalism is unimportant?
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This amazing story of California's wacky education politics is
detailed in "Direct Science Instruction Suffers a Setback in
California - Or Does It?" [Hake (2004)].
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Richard Hake, Emeritus Professor of Physics, Indiana University
Honorary Member, Curmudgeon Lodge of Deventer, The Netherlands
President, PEdants for Definitive Academic References which Recognize the
Invention of the Internet (PEDARRII)
<rrhake@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
<http://www.physics.indiana.edu/~hake>
<http://www.physics.indiana.edu/~sdi>
<http://HakesEdStuff.blogspot.com>
<http://iub.academia.edu/RichardHake>
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REFERENCES [All URL's accessed on 13 April 2011; some shortened by
<http://bit.ly/>.]
Brown, J. 2008. "INTERview: Hans Ohanian: A professor of physics
explores the human failings of genius in a new book, 'Einstein's
Mistakes'," 24 September; online on "The View" at
<http://bit.ly/iimrkh>. See also the index page for the book at
<http://bit.ly/gHslOw>. This interview is also on Susan Ohanian's
website at <http://bit.ly/gDPPwH>. [According to information at
<http://www.uvm.edu/theview/>: "The View" was a weekly, online
publication produced by the University Communications Department of
the University of Vermont from 2001-2008, now replaced a new
publication, "UVM Today" <http://www.uvm.edu/~uvmpr/>.]
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Cleyet, B. 2011a. "Re: Question About AP," online on the OPEN! Phys-L
archives at <http://bit.ly/gR5tsS>. Don't worry about the "warning."
Post of 11 Apr 2011 23:12:58-0700 to Physhare, Phys-L, and PhysLrnR.
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Cleyet, B. 2011b. "Re: Question About AP," online on the OPEN! Phys-L
archives at <http://bit.ly/gILllk>. Don't worry about the "warning."
Post of 11 Apr 2011 23:24:21 -0700to Physhare, Phys-L, and PhysLrnR.
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Hake, R.R. 2004. "Direct Science Instruction Suffers a Setback in
California - Or Does It?" AAPT Announcer 34(2): 177; online as a 420
KB pdf at <http://bit.ly/aWsazm> [about 160 references and 180
hot-linked URL's]. A pdf version of the slides shown at the meeting
is also available as a 132 kB pdf at <http://bit.ly/d40ksO>. See
also Hake (2005) and Woolf (2005)
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Hake, R.R. 2005. "Will the No Child Left Behind Act Promote Direct
Instruction of Science?" Am. Phys. Soc. 50: 851 (2005); APS March
Meeting, Los Angles, CA. 21-25 March; online as a 256 kB pdf at
<http://bit.ly/f26Da7>.
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Hake, R.R. 2011. "Re: Question About AP" online on the OPEN! AERA-L
archives at <http://bit.ly/i3uB5u>. Post of 11 Apr 2011 16:43:01-0700
to AERA-L and Net-Gold. The abstract and link to the complete post
are being distributed to various discussion lists and are also online
on my blog "Hake'sEdStuff" at <http://bit.ly/gaORYu> with a provision
for comments.
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Lopez, R.E. & T. Schultz. 2001. "Two Revolutions in K-8 Science
Education." Physics Today 54(9): 44-49; online at
<http://bit.ly/eIHo9Q>.
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Ohanian, H. 2008. "Einstein's Mistakes: The Human Failings of
Genius." W.W. Norton, publisher's information at
<http://bit.ly/idaUGt>. Amazon.com information at
<http://amzn.to/hLUbY0>. For a review see Brown (2008).
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Ohanian, S. 2011. "question about AP" EDDRA2 post of 11 Apr 2:56 am
(Yahoo doesn't specify the time zone), online on the OPEN! EDDRA2
archives at <http://yhoo.it/hsSNoc>.
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Woolf, L.D. 1999. "22 December 1999 Science Education Petition," online at
<http://bit.ly/e4vr4z>. See also Woolf (2000).
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Woolf, L.D. 2000. Letter of 17 February to California Secretary of
Education Gary Hart in response to a letter by Stan Metzenberg who
criticized Woolf's "Science Education Petition" [Woolf 1999] as
"misleading and erroneous." Woolf sent cc's to State Senator Dede
Alpert, Assembly member Kerry Mazzoni, CSBE executive director John
Mockler, CA Superintendent of Schools Delaine Eastin, members of the
CSBE, & Stan Metzenberg; online at <http://bit.ly/gsYsct>.
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Schultz, T. 1998. "History of the Development of California Science
Content Standards," online at <http://bit.ly/fzJSvq>. See also the
excellent articles by Lopez & Schultz (2001) and Schultz (2001).
Schultz (1998) wrote: "This. . .[the 1995-1999 CA Science Wars]. . .
is an important story, but NONE OF THE PROMINENT NEWSPAPERS REALLY
COVERED IT. The conflicting goals of the different approaches to
science education, the evidence for each, the supporters of each, and
the intensely political maneuvering behind the scenes have all been
missed. And the Op-Ed pages have distorted the issues at best,
totally misrepresented them at worst. Attempts to correct the wrong
impressions, **to have as an op-ed piece a shortened version of the
enclosed statement by the president of the National Academy of
Sciences . . . . .[[Bruce Alberts]]. . . . (who is also a renowned
Bay Area scientist and a leader of the effort to improve science
education in San Francisco). . . ., were rejected by three of the
state's leading newspapers.** While people who care have been grossly
misled, the development of the California Science Content Education
has been hijacked, and California's science education is about to
take a giant step backward. [My CAPS and **emphasis**.]
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Schultz, T. 2001. "K-8 Science Education through the Eyes of a
Physicist," APS Forum on Education Newsletter, Summer; online at
<http://bit.ly/gXDA6X>.
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Strauss. V. 2004. "Back to Basics vs. Hands-On Instruction:
California Rethinks Science Labs." Washington Post, Tuesday, 3
February, page A12; online on Susan Ohanian's site
<http://bit.ly/feISk7> and also <http://bit.ly/eePFTS)> thanks to the
"California Association for Environmental and Outdoor Education
(AEOE)". Strauss' report was stimulated at least in part by the wide
internet disbursal of Woolf & Hake (2004), an OpEd piece rejected by
the "San Diego Union Tribune." As of 6 April 2004 there were 75
reader responses to Strauss' report on the site's "Message Board"
[evidently dumped :-( along with Strauss' report by the Washington
Post].
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Woolf, L.D. & R.R. Hake. 2004. "The End of Hands-On Science
Activities in California's K-8 Classrooms?" online on the OPEN! PhysL
archives at <http://bit.ly/fBtCz1>. Post of 12 Jan 2004 16:57:42-0800
transmitted to (a) the discussion lists AERA-K, AP-Physics, BIOPI-L,
CHEMED-L, PHYS-L, PHYSLRNR; and (b) to the members and staff of the
CCC (California Curriculum Commission). This post was intended as an
OpEd piece for the "San Diego Union Tribune" but was rejected by the
editor as being written too much for "insiders." Also "letters to the
editor" by Woolf and Hake were immediately tossed into the circular
files of the "LA Times," the "San Francisco Chronicle," and the
"Sacramento Bee." Is it bad writing, bad editing, or a topic of no
public interest? The 75 lively responses (as of 6 Sept. 2004) to
Strauss (2004) suggest that it is NOT the latter. According to
Schultz (1998), California newspapers similarly failed to adequately
cover the 1995-1999 "California Science Wars" [Woolf (1999, 2000),
Feder (1998a,b)].
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Woolf, L.D. 1999. "22 December 1999 Science Education Petition," online at
<http://bit.ly/e4vr4z>. See also Woolf (2000).
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Woolf, L.D. 2000. Letter of 17 February to California Secretary of
Education Gary Hart in response to a letter by Stan Metzenberg who
criticized Woolf's "Science Education Petition" [Woolf 1999] as
"misleading and erroneous." Woolf sent cc's to State Senator Dede
Alpert, Assemblymember Kerry Mazzoni, CSBE executive director John
Mockler [see Section III (4) above], CA Superintendent of Schools
Delaine Eastin, members of the CSBE, & Stan Metzenberg ; online at
<http://bit.ly/gsYsct>.
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Woolf, L. 2005. "California Political Science Education," APS Forum
on Education Newsletter, Summer; online at
<http://units.aps.org/units/fed/newsletters/summer2005/woolf.html>.
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