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Over the past three decades, the standards-based reform movement has transformed K-12 education in the United States, culminating with passage of the No Child Left Behind Act in 2002. Beyond making reasonable accommodations for special needs students, standards-based education pays little attention to other areas of student difference, relying instead on a "rational actor" model of student experience, and ignoring how differences in students' backgrounds and orientations impact their particular experiences of schooling. This book examines the development of standards-based education, with particular scrutiny of the roles of the National Governors' Association and its National Education Summit events. Examination of important documents emerging from those events provides an illustration of the conceptually impoverished understanding of student subjectivity, motivation, and agency inherent in standards-based education. In order to understand both problems with and alternatives to standards-based education, the author examines the roles of ideology, rhetoric, and audience in school policy. In three case studies, the author analyzes several non-school models of education, including Marine Corps bootcamp, Ving Tsun kung fu training, and an online, school resistance community. Johnson argues that examination of these learning contexts provides a better understanding of the shortcomings and dangers of the standards-based model of student subjectivity, and suggests a set of fourteen principles to inform the development of more student-centered alternatives.

The Complete Guide to Kung Fu Fighting Styles

Kung Fu - China's legacy of martial arts stretches from the distant past of the Shaolin Temple to the strife-torn decades of the 20th century. It is a legacy filled with tales of great masters who, in their search for inner truth, were confronted with tyrannical Emperors, civil wars, and marauding bandits. It is a tale of conflict, violence, and , triumphing over all, the Kung Fu Masters' attainment of the very acme of physical skill, mental discipline, and awesome internal power. Now, for the very first time in the West, comes a work that surveys the Masters' labors - a comparative study of the authentic styles of Chinese martial arts featuring the finest master practitioners of this century. It is a book that will take you from the outer limits of external power training to the inner realm of the master's mind.

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