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<div><font face="Times" size="+1" color="#000000">Some subscribers to
RUME might be interested in a recent discussion-list post "Re:
Foundations' Newfound Advocacy" [Hake (2012)].<br>
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The abstract reads:<br>
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ABSTRACT: Norman Stahl of the LRNASST list has called attention to
Doug Lederman's (2012) "Inside Higher Ed" report
"Foundations' Newfound Advocacy" at
<http://bit.ly/HG3wc2>. Lederman, in turn, points to a paper "
'Advocacy Philanthropy' and the Public Policy Agenda: The Role of
Modern Foundations in American Higher Education" [Hall &
Thomas (2012) at <http://bit.ly/HHNcIw>.<br>
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Lederman wrote: "Hall and Thomas channel fears that the consensus
that Gates and Lumina have built through their common agenda-setting
(in league with federal and state officials) and their comparatively
massive, widely distributed dollars (to a cottage industry of
'intermediaries') has given them 'outsized influence' and squelched
alternative points of view."<br>
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To access the complete 7 kB post please click on
<http://bit.ly/HyCGik>.<br>
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Richard Hake, Emeritus Professor of Physics, Indiana University<br>
<rrhake@earthlink.net><br>
Links to Articles: <http://bit.ly/a6M5y0><br>
Links to SDI Labs: <http://bit.ly/9nGd3M><br>
Blog: <http://bit.ly/9yGsXh><br>
Academia: <http://iub.academia.edu/RichardHake><br>
Twitter <https://twitter.com/#!/rrhake><br>
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"The academic area is one of the most difficult areas to change
in our society. We continue to use the same methods of instruction,
particularly lectures, that have been used for hundreds of years.
Little scientific research is done to test new approaches, and little
systematic attention is given to the development of new methods.
Universities that study many aspects of the world ignore the
educational function in which they are engaging and from which a large
part of their revenues are earned."<br>
Richard
M. Cyert, former president of<br>
Carnegie Mellon University as quoted in Tuma & Reif (1980)<br>
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REFERENCES [All URL's shortened by <http://bit.ly/> and accessed
on 14 April 2012.]<br>
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Hake, R.R. 2012. "Re: Foundations' Newfound Advocacy,"online
on the OPEN! AERA-L archives at <http://bit.ly/HyCGik>.
Post of 14 Apr 2012 08:23:38-0700 to AERA-L and Net-Gold. The abstract
and link to the complete post are also being transmitted to several
discussion lists and are on my blog "Hake'sEdStuff" at
<http://bit.ly/HIAjw3> with a provision for comments.<br>
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Tuma, D.T. & F. Reif, eds. 1980. "Problem Solving and
Education: Issues in Teaching and Research," Lawrence Erlbaum.
Amazon.com information at <http://amzn.to/jcAK2d>.</font><br>
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