Inaugural Post

This is the inaugural post for Educulture, a blog devoted to commentary and questions about the culture of schooling in America. I am particularly interested in the institutional rules that shape the "game of school" these days. I hope this will be a place to both work out some ideas and engage discussion about the politics of education, the rules of the "game" (what they are, what they mean) and the inevitable* winners and losers on the many levels and terrains of the educational (edu-cultural) playing fields.

*There are inevitable winners and losers because that is how we do schooling in America...See Varenne and McDermott's Successful Failure: The School America Builds for more on this.