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Slobjob Zizek posted:How would you run things differently, given these constraints? It would be as if you ran Subway at the corporate-level and franchisees were free to use your branding and products, but turn down certain directives as they saw fit. Obviously, this would lead to some Subway locations being shittier than others, and the brand might sag as a whole. Maybe great for certain franchisees, but not for the whole company. Same thing happens with US education as a whole and the individual schools that is composed of. This analogy is totally useless. Subway franchises are not akin to schools with student populations of wide socioeconomic variances. Sadly, one can predict academic "outcomes" of a school quite accurately depending on the socioeconomic make up of the students, regardless of what half-cooked reform policies a school has or hasn't chosen to employ. Students who live in violent inner city communities within large metropolitan areas (Chicago, LA, DC, SF) are literally suffering from PTSD - it doesn't require a leap of faith to reason that this has a direct affect on a young person's brain chemistry and brain development and her ability to learn. This isn't postmodern posturing - it's actually being studied by the CDC: http://www.cdc.gov/violenceprevention/acestudy. I'm extremely skeptical about how market driven reform solutions or directives can really help these students - unless these magic market solutions can roll back deep economic inequality, reduce gun violence in inner cities and provide social workers/therapists for these kids and their families. mA fucked around with this message at 08:01 on Jul 30, 2014 |
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