ATGVG@ASUACAD.BITNET (Gene Glass) (02/08/90)
A new paper has been archived on this list. It is described below. The
paper is about 875 lines long. For those interested, it can be obtained
by sending a mail item, a NOTE or an interactive (TELL) message to
LISTSERV at ASUACAD, the sole contents of the message being as follows:
GET ZIMILES FEB1990.
THE ADORATION OF "HARD DATA": A CASE STUDY OF DATA FETISHISM
IN THE EVALUATION OF INFANT DAY CARE
HERBERT ZIMILES
COLLEGE OF EDUCATION ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY
"This article examines the manner in which a substantive
issue--the growing reliance on early education and day care as a
means of providing nonmaternal child care--is studied and
evaluated by the prevailing data-centered mode of child
development and educational research. It explores some of the
ramifications of the data-centered approach both for the kind of
knowledge that it generates and the manner in which it has
affected the relation between research and practice. In so
doing, it makes concrete reference to a recent issue of the Early
Childhood Research Quarterly devoted to the evaluation of infant
day care, and uses this issue as a point of departure."
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GENE V GLASS ATGVG AT ASUACAD
COLLEGE OF EDUCATION 602-965-2692
ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITYATGVG@ASUACAD.BITNET (Gene Glass) (02/13/90)
A new paper has been archived on EDPOLYAN. Its title is
"Policy Considerations in Conversion to Year-round Schools" and its
first author is Amelia Kreitzer of Boston College. The paper is about
350 lines long and can be retrieved either by interactive (TELL)
message from IBM CMS mainframes or by MAIL item from IBM or VAX main-
frames, e.g.,
TELL LISTSERV AT ASUACAD GET KREITZER FEB1990, or
with a mail item addressed to LISTSERV AT ASUACAD with the sole contents
being GET KREITZER FEB1990.
The paper may be of particular interest now because of the imminent
conversion of the Los Angeles Unified School District calendar to a
year-round schedule. The Conclusions of the paper follow:
CONCLUSIONS
"Year-round schools can work. They can accomplish their
principal goal of saving money by avoiding construction of new
buildings. They do not hinder student achievement, and they can
become acceptable to the majority of parents and teachers.
However, savings may never be realized and the community may
never accept the year-round schedule if
--the program is not coordinated with parents' lives and
community activities.
--the program is limited to one or two schools on an
experimental basis but never broadened.
--full enrollment is not achieved.
--the school can not accommodate greater
individualization of the curriculum."
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GENE V GLASS ATGVG AT ASUACAD
COLLEGE OF EDUCATION 602-965-2692
ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY