Social Class Links 01/26/2012
January 26, 2012
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Teachers Offer the Wealthy an Escape from Poverty – Living in Dialogue – Education Week Teacher
An good critique of the contradictory messages about education in Obama’s State of the Union
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Social Class Links 01/24/2012
January 24, 2012
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A Mess on the Ladder of Success – NYTimes.com
A good, brief essay on growing divide between two classes: the mobile and the immobile.
” The surprise in the census data, however, is that the immobile work force is not limited to unskilled workers. In fact, many have a college degree. “
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Social Class Links 11/17/2011
November 17, 2011
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Middle-Class Areas Shrink as Income Gap Grows, New Report Finds – NYTimes.com
In which US public schools become even more segregated by social class, and the wealthy become even more isolated from the rest of society.
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Social Class Links 10/22/2011
October 22, 2011
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Mom Uniforms for School Run Are Designers – NYTimes.com
As everyone mom I know is struggling to get their kids off to mediocre day care so that they can start their 10 hour work day, moms in New York don their furs and designer shoes for school drop-off and then coffee.
“The author Jill Kargman’s daughter Sadie, whom her mother described as “a hawk with all things fashion-y,” once observed post-pickup at her Upper East Side school, “Mommy, you’re the only one without red bottoms on your shoes.” “
All the school reform on the planet will not close the deep economic gaps between these children.
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Social Class Links 09/22/2011
September 22, 2011
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admissions2011 / survey / News – Inside Higher Ed
“The interest in full-pay students is so strong that 10 percent of four-year colleges report that the full-pay students they are admitting have lower grades and test scores than do other admitted applicants.”
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