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Given that non-school factors associated with socioeconomic status and poverty most strongly correlate with high-stakes standardized test scores, we are led to an important conclusion: __because the tests are designed to produce certain amounts of failure, and because the tests essentially function as a measure of poverty, then we have to recognize that high-stakes standardized testing concentrates failure among poor and working-class children, their schools, and their communities.__
A Marxist Education
Wayne Au
The schema that Schmitt proposed to account for the concepts behind liberalism needs to be corrected. Between economics and ethics, there is a third, strategic focus, one which mediates between the other two. __Between the economic theory of the firm as nexus and the ethical theory of the firm as responsible partnership, there is a third term, the theory of the strategic management of stakeholders.__
The Ungovernable Society
Grégoire Chamayou
Second, there is no correct pre-analytic vision, true paradigm or perfect frame out there to be discovered. In the deft words of the statistician George Box, ‘All models are wrong, but some are useful.’
Doughnut Economics
Kate Raworth
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