Wednesday, January 11, 2012
“The American habit of viewing public schools as the great equalizer of our society has often lead us to graft our fantasies, anxieties, and dreams onto the education system. For most of our history, education has been the only real form of a social safety net, meaning that the schools are the arena in which social apprehensions are played out. It makes sense then, that as mainstream attitudes toward the problems of the country’s growing lower class changed in the 1980s, the way politicians and policymakers talked about the problems facing the nation’s schools also changed. If self-reliance was all that was required to compete financially, it followed that raising standards and holding students, parents, and schools accountable was all that was required to succeed academically.” A Nation of Little Lebowski Urban Achievers (via azspot)
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