Education and Class

• Education Week: Civic Investment and the ‘Skyboxing’ of Education

  Calling for parents and community groups to support educatino for all children via fund-raising and other resources, not just their own:
  In recent years, we’ve been witnessing the “skyboxing” of American education. Like their socioeconomic peers at ballgames, students in education skyboxes are buffered from realities most students face by their well-appointed educational accommodations: “Need an extra AP program? Right away, sir. Would you like an International Baccalaureate with that?” Meanwhile, the vast majority of students sit in the equivalent of bleacher seats, or they are stuck behind a pillar, squinting to see their teachers in overcrowded classrooms.

  tags: Social class

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