Pamela Grundy, Color and Character: West Charlotte High and the American Struggle over Educational Equality
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This is an even-handed account of Mee which takes care to situate him in the milieu of his time and place.He was a eugenicist and an imperialist, who viewed the British Empire as a force for universal good, but he was also a practicing Christian and idealist who strove for a world where children would be offered equal opportunities and where poverty would be eradicated.Above all, he was a proud Englishman.But, all of this does not add up to sufficient reason for Crawford to devote time to writing a biography; or, for that matter, for others to read it.Mee warrants a biography because he was a cultural tour de force.He was a prolific writer and editor who produced popular publications intended for child readers that reflected the values and standards of the period and place.Contemporary Canadian readers may not be familiar with the man or the publications, but this biography provides fascinating insights into the ideals of middle-class Edwardian England through the writings of a man whose life epitomized those ideals and whose work had an impact on several generations of children.
Fetched live from OpenAlex and de-inverted. Abstracts are not stored in this database: the inverted indexes are 8.6 GB of the frame’s 9.3 GB of text, and the host has 13 GB free.
How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.020 | 0.008 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.008 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.006 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.005 | 0.001 |
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 source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), 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".