Author: Susan D. Blum
Susan D. Blum , February 8th, 2016
Professor Marjorie Faulstich Orellana of UCLA suggested that there is a “‘Love’ Revolution” underway in education as reaction against the punitive and judgment-drenc…
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Susan D. Blum , December 28th, 2015
Strategies are the main learning outcome of all those years of school. Anyone who flunks strategy basically flunks school. Anthropology is a field of inquiry not only focused…
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Susan D. Blum , November 1st, 2015
Before January 2016, my new book, “I Love Learning; I Hate School”: An Anthropology of College, will be published by Cornell University Press. You can sign up on…
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Susan D. Blum , June 23rd, 2015
With Netta Avineri and Eric J. Johnson, I’ve addressed a report in the Washington Post on the many contextual factors affecting children in poverty. The well-intentioned plans to teach…
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Susan D. Blum , June 16th, 2015
Challenges to authoritarian states’ control of language can be so complex that they exceed the states’ ability to manage them all. Electronic expression of resistance and increasi…
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Susan D. Blum , May 20th, 2015
An invited forum on the so-called “language gap”has just appeared in the Journal of Linguistic Anthropology . My piece is titled “‘Wordism’: Is There a Teacher in the House?”…
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Susan D. Blum , April 2nd, 2015
The correct and inevitable guilty verdict in the sad case of the “Atlanta Cheating Scandal” is a reminder that the current system of high-stakes testing drives all particip…
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Susan D. Blum , February 15th, 2015
Photo credit: http://earlyed.newamerica.net/sites/newamerica.net/files/articles/images/dad_reading_to_baby_0.jpg (with Lizzie Fagen and Kathleen C. Riley) [On the American Anthropolo…
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Susan D. Blum , December 20th, 2014
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Susan D. Blum , October 10th, 2014
Both are seventeen. They are too young to vote in places like the US. But we need more of them! Malala! All around the world people know this…
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Susan D. Blum , August 8th, 2014
Thirty million words. That sounds precise….enormous….impressive. That is the estimate by some scholars of the difference in words heard by disadvantaged kids in comparison to kids with advantages….
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Susan D. Blum , August 6th, 2014
If metaphors organize our thinking and if there is no genuinely neutral way of speaking about anything, then it is worth looking into the dominant metaphors used. School is a domai…
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Susan D. Blum , May 6th, 2014
Why are people poor? Why do children of the poor not thrive? The latest explanation for why children coming from disadvantaged households do not rise in this land…
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