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Atlantic article: Better schools won't fix America
Posted on 7/3/19 at 2:31 pm
Posted on 7/3/19 at 2:31 pm
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Read this and thought the PT would find it interesting. I am eager to hear the board's thought's on this provocative piece. Here are a few snippets:
Read this and thought the PT would find it interesting. I am eager to hear the board's thought's on this provocative piece. Here are a few snippets:
quote:
Like many rich Americans, I used to think educational investment could heal the country’s ills—but I was wrong. Fighting inequality must come first.
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Educationism appeals to the wealthy and powerful because it tells us what we want to hear: that we can help restore shared prosperity without sharing our wealth or power. As Anand Giridharadas explains in his book Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World, narratives like this one let the wealthy feel good about ourselves. By distracting from the true causes of economic inequality, they also defend America’s grossly unequal status quo. We have confused a symptom—educational inequality—with the underlying disease: economic inequality. Schooling may boost the prospects of individual workers, but it doesn’t change the core problem, which is that the bottom 90 percent is divvying up a shrinking share of the national wealth. Fixing that problem will require wealthy people to not merely give more, but take less.
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Posted on 7/3/19 at 2:32 pm to BigJim
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Fighting inequality must come first.
And.... The best way to do that.
...... Is....... Through.... Improving....
Posted on 7/3/19 at 2:33 pm to BigJim
Handing money to poor people won't fix schools either.
Posted on 7/3/19 at 2:33 pm to BigJim
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Educationism
We've jumped the shark on the isms
Posted on 7/3/19 at 2:34 pm to BigJim
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Fighting inequality
The politics of envy.
That will be a disaster.
Posted on 7/3/19 at 2:34 pm to BigJim
A rising tide lifts all boats, except those not tied off properly. Those boats are fricked.
Posted on 7/3/19 at 2:35 pm to Nguyener
quote:
And.... The best way to do that.
...... Is....... Through.... Improving....
education. bingo.
Posted on 7/3/19 at 2:35 pm to mule74
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Handing money to poor people won't fix schools either.
This. Poor people are poor because they make horrendous life choices. If you can't make it to middle class in America, you can't make it anywhere.
Posted on 7/3/19 at 2:35 pm to BigJim
I taught in a school in Japan that looked like a two story motel six of crumbling concrete. 40 students to a class . No air conditioning. Holes in the floor to shite in.
The students arrived on time, respectful, ready and eager to learn . EVERY DAY. Including a half day Saturday . Pimpu Sensei was humbled.
The students arrived on time, respectful, ready and eager to learn . EVERY DAY. Including a half day Saturday . Pimpu Sensei was humbled.
Posted on 7/3/19 at 2:37 pm to upgrayedd
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We've jumped the shark on the isms
It's ismism.
Posted on 7/3/19 at 2:37 pm to BigJim
It is hard to believe some people actually believe this. I’m guessing that journalism degree did not payoff like they thought it should, so it’s the fault of people who got a job getting degree. SMH.
Posted on 7/3/19 at 2:40 pm to BigJim
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American workers are struggling in large part because they are underpaid
False premise
America's poor are in the top 5% in the world. More than 4B people on the planet would consider moving into our public housing projects a dream not even worth dreaming it's so out of their reach.
And this shite ain't no accident.
This is the problem. The left has NO frickING PERSPECTIVE
Oh. And Equality and Freedom are competing ideals. Freedom is better.
Posted on 7/3/19 at 2:40 pm to Sweet Pickles
Strange. Education raised me from poor to a 1 percenter. I wonder why it doesn't work for everyone.
Posted on 7/3/19 at 2:41 pm to BigJim
The United States has been the most upwardly mobile society in maybe the course of human history. That has been accomplished in large part because of our free education system. But it also will deteriorate as our education system continues to deteriorate.
Posted on 7/3/19 at 2:42 pm to BigJim
Thanks. I read the whole piece and cannot respond without getting into 1,000 words of text because every other sentence is incorrect.
Just an example from the top:
No. Public education in America started in Boston in 1635. For the next 200 years the education system in America was considered highly inferior to education in Europe.
The writer knows nothing about anything.
Just an example from the top:
quote:
Once upon a time, America created a public-education system that was the envy of the modern world.
No. Public education in America started in Boston in 1635. For the next 200 years the education system in America was considered highly inferior to education in Europe.
The writer knows nothing about anything.
This post was edited on 7/3/19 at 3:19 pm
Posted on 7/3/19 at 2:42 pm to BigJim
As long as democrats keep selling to poor people that everyone else is to blame for their poverty, they will keep expecting everyone else to bail them out.
No matter who’s “fault” poverty is, only one person can really step up and get you out. YOURSELF. Charity can supplement, government aid can supplement, education systems supplement, but each individual has to make the daily choice to get out and stay out of that reality and mindset.
No matter who’s “fault” poverty is, only one person can really step up and get you out. YOURSELF. Charity can supplement, government aid can supplement, education systems supplement, but each individual has to make the daily choice to get out and stay out of that reality and mindset.
Posted on 7/3/19 at 2:43 pm to BigJim
No one who talks about inequality of any sort precisely defines just what level of equality is desired, unless they are communist. So I assume anyone who makes it a plank is a closet communist.
Posted on 7/3/19 at 2:43 pm to BigJim
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Better schools
quote:
Fighting inequality
Pick one
Posted on 7/3/19 at 2:43 pm to Lsupimp
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I taught in a school in Japan that looked like a two story motel six of crumbling concrete. 40 students to a class . No air conditioning. Holes in the floor to shite in.
The students arrived on time, respectful, ready and eager to learn . EVERY DAY. Including a half day Saturday . Pimpu Sensei was humbled.
and i think its safe to assume it was 100% about learning math science and history and nothing about indoctrination and brainwashing
Posted on 7/3/19 at 2:44 pm to ShortyRob
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This is the problem. The left has NO frickING PERSPECTIVE
This
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