Does the American Elite Want Real Public Education? with both Professor Henry Louis Taylor, Jr. and Mark Naison.
Tests crowd out all the good curricula/subject areas that provide our
youth with enriching experiences. Taylor and Naison make a number of
good points—that it's profitable for our
children NOT to have a high level of critical consciousness. Profit
also comes from the "misery industries," otherwise called the school- to-prison pipeline. That's what makes education political. So no, the American Elite Do NOT Want
Real Public Education. They really never have and rhetoric like "leave no child behind" and "all children count" operates strategically to hide that agenda.
This blog on Texas education contains posts on accountability, testing, K-12 education, postsecondary educational attainment, dropouts, bilingual education, immigration, school finance, environmental issues, Ethnic Studies at state and national levels. It also represents my digital footprint, of life and career, as a community-engaged scholar in the College of Education at the University of Texas at Austin.
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