tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7162206974728931335.post6123408678830628002..comments2024-03-28T08:20:11.686-05:00Comments on Daughter Number Three: Who Are the Students?Daughter Number Threehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08171356533232458827noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7162206974728931335.post-20876929172186196482015-12-16T09:53:15.656-06:002015-12-16T09:53:15.656-06:00I wonder if such statistics could have been gather...I wonder if such statistics could have been gathered 100 or even 50 or 60 years ago. Abuse wasn't seen as abuse but as discipline by most folks back then, and handed down from generation to generation. The number of immigrants could have been observed, perhaps, as well as language to a certain extent. Poverty could sometimes also be observed in how kids were dressed. My experience in school in the late 1950's and 1960's -- I recall only knowing who lived in poverty. We had one Black family in town, and I don't recall any immigrants. In high school, post-Vietnam War, we had more Vietnamese immigrants in the area, and more Black families. Otherwise, my hometown was pretty white bread and middle class, from my memory.Ginahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14661278900773185119noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7162206974728931335.post-51915855278889658822015-12-13T21:19:11.885-06:002015-12-13T21:19:11.885-06:00Oh, Conor Friedersdorf. He certainly holds up the ...Oh, Conor Friedersdorf. He certainly holds up the neocon end at the <i>Atlantic</i>. Great link to the Gates Foundation money trail. Hmmm. <br /><br />As education critic Nikhil Goyal said on Twitter a couple of days ago, "Democrats and Republicans are always in agreement when it comes to destroying public education and supporting standardized testing."Daughter Number Threehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08171356533232458827noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7162206974728931335.post-82773219828588408182015-12-13T20:05:46.740-06:002015-12-13T20:05:46.740-06:00This article is especially interesting given that ...This article is especially interesting given that it appears in the <i>Atlantic</i> . Back in July, the magazine had an infuriating piece titled <a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2015/07/fixing-urban-schools-without-fixing-poverty-is-possible/397472/" rel="nofollow">“Fixing Urban Schools Without Fixing Poverty Is Possible.”</a> Maybe this new piece represents greater sanity.<br /><br />It’s also interesting given the relationship between the Atlantic Media Company and the Gates Foundation. A passage documenting the relationship has disappeared from Wikipedia’s article about the <i>Atlantic</i> but can still be found in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Atlantic&diff=674461052&oldid=672085428" rel="nofollow">revision history</a>.Michael Leddyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05547732736861224886noreply@blogger.com