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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
Foundations, overall, exert far too much control over organizations and, ultimately, over our movements for social change. Luring social justice activists with the promise of financial support, they also determine the rules of engagement.
The Revolution Will Not Be Funded
Incite!
Young people were expected to work for wages in the households of others because—unless one was intending to join the clergy and become a scholar—what we would consider paid work, and what we would consider education, were seen as largely the same thing, and both were a process of learning self-discipline, about “achiev[ing] mastery of one’s baser desires” and learning how to behave like a proper self-contained adult.
Bullshit Jobs
David Graeber
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