Want to Value Every Student? Stop Pretending Schools Don't Pick Winners and Losers (Opinion)
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Want to Value Every Student? Stop Pretending Schools Don't Pick Winners and Losers (Opinion)
Steve Jobs never gave his kids iPads. Bill Gates capped screen time and refused phones for his teens.
Silicon Valley executives send their children to schools with chalkboards and pencils, yet they’re selling AI tutors to everyone else’s kids.
A new education divide is emerging. But it’s not... See more
instagram.comOnce you stop insisting that the only noble outcome for any and all children is to go to a top twenty university and join the ranks of our Brahmin class, we can dramatically broaden the purpose of school and our definitions of success. If you don’t do that, though, our neoliberal system is going to continue to try to use the meritocratic system as... See more
Why do we want to help those who are already successful more than those who really need it?
If you have little career capital or are struggling, chances are your friends/network aren’t that interested in helping you or even being associated with you (because of your relative status). And if you have observable career capital, people want to be in
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