EDU 111—Perspectives on American Education: October 2014

White High School Dropouts Have More Wealth Than Black And Hispanic College Graduates

Why White High School Drop Outs Have More Wealth Than Black College Graduates

What is an honest and fair claim we can make about education/wealth from the data below? What does education appear to accomplish and what does education appear not to impact?

“Arts of the Possible,” Adrienne Rich (2001)

Universal public education has two possible—and contradictory—missions. One is the development of a literate, articulate, and well-informed citizenry so that the democratic process can continue to evolve and the promise of radical equality can be brought closer to realization. The other is the perpetuation of a class system dividing an elite, nominally “gifted” few, tracked from an early age, from a very large underclass essentially to be written off as alienated from language and science, from poetry and politics, from history and hope—toward low-wage temporary jobs. The second is the direction our society has taken. The results are devastating in terms of the betrayal of a generation of youth. The loss to the whole of society is incalculable. (p. 162)

EDU 111—Perspectives on American Education

Pages

Friday, October 31, 2014

Why the Best Teachers Don't Give Tests

Peculiar Benefits, Roxane Gay

The Truth about Effort/Education?

Wednesday, October 29, 2014

How I Learned to Distrust the Media (about Education)

Friday, October 17, 2014

Not-So-Great Expectations: Teachers Expect Less of Black and Brown Students

Saturday, October 11, 2014

Ingredients to a Well-Balanced System of Body-Hatred