324 posts tagged elitism
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Setting Down
http://www.johnconnell.co.uk/ blog/ ?p=823Why is it that some of us in education have never required helpful research to tell us the rather obvious truth about the deleterious effects of setting, especially on those kids unfortunate enough to be grouped in the ‘lower ability’ sets?
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Acceptance
http://feministreview.blogspot.com/ 2008/ 05/ acceptance.htmlBy Susan Coll Picador Susan Coll’s novel, Acceptance, focuses on students who attend an elite high school outside of the nation’s capital. The students are exposed to an education most can only dream of: Advanced Prep (AP) classes, a laundry list of extra-curricular activities to choose from, and parents who can afford to pay for the best SAT prep that money can buy.
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Alden: World Bank Destroyed Basic Grains in Honduras — Phillipines - Haiti, the Balkans — etc., etc., etc., till hell won’t have it.
http://stiffrightjab.wordpress.com/ 2008/ 05/ 15/ alden-world-bank-destroyed-bas…Alden: World Bank Destroyed Basic Grains in Honduras — Phillipines - Haiti, the Balkans — etc., etc., etc., till hell won’t have it. by Diane Alden ARTICLE SYNOPSIS: Economic theorists, like Enlightenment French scribblers, “playing God” and “doing business” with thugs and bums, and America be damned.
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Golf: The Supreme Sacrifice of the Frat Boy
http://brilliantatbreakfast.blogspot.com/ 2008/ 05/ golf-supreme-sacrifice-of-fr…Keith: There's something so Gilded Age about a child of Connecticut and Kennebunkport actually thinking that the sacrifice of a sport played in clubs that don't allow black people or women, clubs frequented by guys named Skip and Chip wearing plaid pants; on land that could be used to farm
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Appalachia on My Mind
http://progressivemovement.net/ 2008/ 05/ 14/ appalachia-on-my-mind/Appalachia on My Mind Posted by parmenides on May 14th, 2008 The big (as the Clintons and the media would have you believe) primary results in WV are in and the expected happened. Hillary trounced Obama.
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The real vanguard
http://managingleadership.com/ blog/ 2008/ 05/ 14/ the-real-vanguard/While there remains considerable resistance in certain quarters to the idea, the real advances enjoyed in the world since the advent of the industrial age have come from commerce, from business people who respond to market signals, which ultimately are sent by consumers.
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Meritocracy Through Maly’s Model
http://bnww.wordpress.com/ 2008/ 05/ 14/ meritocracy-through-malys-model/While we are talking about meritocracy, I thought I’d recommend an old favorite. The author, Matthew Maly, tries to explain anti-Americanism in much of the world by critiquing the assumption of many Americans that everyone wants a “win-win society” – much the same thing as a meritocracy.
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The Root of All Elitism
http://politicolondon.wordpress.com/ 2008/ 05/ 14/ the-root-of-all-elitism/The Root of All Elitism Posted on May 14, 2008 by politicolondon Ariel Alexovich’s post, “The Early Word: Endorsements for Obama as Clinton Touts Win“, on The New York Times’ The Caucus blog highlights the pervasive use of “blue collar” to refer to “racist” Americans: Mrs.
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The End of Trickle-Down Education
http://tonyj.net/ 2008/ 05/ 14/ the-end-of-trickle-down-education/Last week, I taught a week-long intensive course at Alliance Theological Seminary in Nyack, New York, and I had a wonderful time. At one point, I reflected on the changes that I see coming in theological (and other forms of) education.
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Josh Marshall, Unhinged or Just a Poor Historian
http://www.bythefault.com/ 2008/ 05/ 14/ josh-marshall-unhinged/Josh Marshall, Unhinged or Just a Poor Historian May 14th, 2008 5:16 am Having just praised Scott Kleeb as a historian, I now come to trash another, Joshua Micah Marshall of Talking Points Memo. Josh Marshall comes unhinged in surmising Obama’s demise in West Virigina: During the 18th and 19th
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