some level of literacy was necessary
Seems as though this judge is further demonstrating the claim from the plaintiffs that the system is structured by officials to offer the bare minimum to people of color, leading to their further encasement in their current conditions.
minimally adequate education
What about literacy is "minimally adequate education"
Michigan officials including Gov. Rick Snyder as defendants
That is impressive, ambitious, and getting at the head of the snake.
courses without basic resources like books and pencils; and classrooms that were bitingly cold in the winter, stiflingly hot in the summer and infested with rats and insects
An example of separate but equal?
we should also be engaging them in discussions about how they should react when presented with a new source and what kinds of questions to be asking (going beyond “who wrote this?” for example, to “who’s behind this URL?”)
Educators should be doing this as well before they present it to students and again with students to model this critical lens.
Overall, young people’s ability to reason about the information on the internet can be summed up in one word: bleak,” the report reads.
There is evidence of this throughout history. Additionally, while educators say critical analysis is something for students to learn, I wonder about the legitimacy of this claim. When we really prepare our students to be critical consumers of information, that means they will (and should) be critical of what information we as educators share.
The White House’s new effort to diminish the Department of Education comes at a time when whites have to transition to being minorities
Securing whiteness as property
For the first time, there will be a Cabinet-level leader in education, someone with the status and the resources to stir national discussion of critical education concerns.”
New job description then?
The University of Colorado’s Board of Regents is considering a proposal to remove the word “liberal” from a description of the Regent’s academic freedom principles.
What is this craziness?
lack students, whose ancestors’ bodies were once reduced to instruments of labor in slavery, have the most to lose from a shortsighted, politically-driven merger of the U.S. education and labor departments
Because we yet to escape the ramifications of the white supremacist ideology foundations that have deep roots in this country
er, to collapse education and labor into a single agency is to also reduce education’s role in developing full human beings
Back to the word nefarious
nefarious
THIS!
authority
Hmmm....this feels icky to me
transitory nature of the population
This feel deficit sounding
talent of their followers. This means that administrators identify both staff and students who display the qualities of excellence and
Does this consider funds of knowledge and brilliance outside of the normalized construction of "talent" . @majenna raises questions about who determines the labeling of any display as talent or excellence?
What is best for students
What is best for students should still rise above what is best for the adults, including staff.
efine what exactly moral and ethical virtues are
And who determines this definition?
a distorted lesson in who belongs in the upper reaches of education in this nation, and who does not
This lesson is reiterated in mulitple ways in our educational system by educators and community members.
eyond that, for school admissions to be truly unbiased, all students would need to have equal access to elementary schools and middle schools that receive equal shares of property taxes and state and federal aid and have the same cultural, educational and social resources
Yes!
All kids deserve a top-rate education in schools with qualified teachers and ample support staff and a wealth of curriculum materials and supplies. Al
This! Why are we not having the conversation about having top notch schools available for every child. “Elite” schools are a nice way to create division and exclusion so as to elevate some over others. Nothing in that is about ensuring equitable access to qualified teachers and school funding.
t pits minority groups in our city against one another
I am struggling to understand this author’s inability to see how the premise of this article is doing exactly what he is now calling against. Claiming a space is racially diverse enough because it is dominated by Asians is a problem.
The issue, of course, is sufficient racial diversity
Is there a cap on racial diversity?