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We called my English teacher Scab for no particular reason except that it took the edge off our terror. A big man in a double breasted jacket, he wore tinted glasses that hid his expression. His head looked as if it had been carved rather carelessly from a boiled ham. “You are not going to like me,” he said to us in our first class, when I was 13.
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bookshop.orgAnonymous ACX Reader • Your Review: Alpha School
is currently a proposal on record which seems at first to make a great deal of sense. It has been prepared by Christopher Jencks of the Center for the Study of Public Policy and is sponsored by the Office of Economic Opportunity. It proposes to put educational “entitlements” or tuition grants into the hands of parents and students for expenditure
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David Brooks • How the Ivy League Broke America
Schools have evolved into assembly lines for high test scores, where skills are drilled, supposedly all the better to prepare kids for college.
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