What I Learned on the Road to Mississauga: Democracy and Curriculum
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Abstract
You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees For hundred miles through the desert, repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves. Tell me about your despair, yours, and I will tell you mine. Meanwhile the world goes on. Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain are moving across the landscapes, over the prairies and the deep trees, the mountains and the rivers. Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air, are heading home again. Mary Oliver (1994) from Wild Geese 2011 AATC PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS Introduction In Rising Tide, John Barry (1997) writes; a society does not change in sudden jumps. Rather it moves in small steps along broad front. Most of these steps are parallel if not quite simultaneous; some advance farther than others, and some even in opposite directions (p. 421). This July 2010, I left my home in Saginaw, Michigan and headed to Mississauga, Ontario to visit my sister Aurora, who is the chief financial officer of Havana Club Rum and was in Ontario to work on her English, and whom I had not seen since we left Cuba 1979. We spoke on the phone and emailed frequently--a powerful virtual bridge provided by technology that enables the embargo of Cuba to appear tolerable. As I speak to you I am reminded of the issues I always face when I cross from Canada back into the United States because of the hegemonic political authority of the Cuban embargo on American citizens who happen to be Cuban, but I will leave that story for another time, maybe tonight at the welcome reception. This story is about journey that emerged from several experiences on the road to Mississauga, Ontario that speaks the current situation impacting higher education and ultimately the future of our nation and its youth. As Mary Oliver (1994) writes in Wild Geese, the journey we take and troubles we experience are ours--while the world continues; sometimes our tribulations seem more important than they are given the tragedies in Japan or the triumphs in Egypt and Tunisia--but the relationships we build and conversations we share among each other serve to connect our journeys and provide context for us to share and understand that we are not alone. In this community that we live, values and ideas are eroding as those who would govern us label our American institutions and beliefs un-American. In Mississauga, my sister and I spoke about appreciating life--growing up so near (Miami and Havana are 228 miles apart) and yet being so far. Although my sister is the CFO of multimillion-dollar corporation in Cuba, she does not free access to travel--other than for work or the Internet--other than e-mail. Incredibly, it is those little things we do not appreciate--the nuances of life that are so vital to our identity. My wife and I freely visit her family in Pittsburgh and my family in Lakeland, Florida. When I cross the borders of the United States, I always dread returning to face an inquisition about why I left the United States, or if I went anywhere else (with wink from the border patrol officer)--just because as naturalized citizen the place of birth listed on my U.S. passport is Cuba. In Art as Experience, Dewey (1938) writes about that we recognize the value of the flower we see while we see it in spring; and not just when we miss its presence in winter. It is such with democracy--understanding it and appreciating its role is essential--when speaking to my cousin in Miami, who spent 10 years in federal prison for drug trafficking, he regrets his loss of citizenship and what he believes is the identity his father was seeking for him when he came to the United States in 1968. The time with my sister in Ontario revealed some interesting realities we face and we sometimes forget--to see the veracity of our nation and thus understand change as driven by memories and the expression of those memories is unique. …
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.003 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".