July 21, 2016 | Posted At: 12:37 PM | Author: Alexander Russo | Category: Teachers, Teaching, Unions , The Business Of Education , Urban Ed
Update: If School Reform Is Class Conflict, A Social Justice Approach Could Hurt
Pale Fire https://t.co/VrDUYWNJ1Q | The New Yorker
— Culture (@sr_culture) July 18, 2016
As I read it, this piece in The New Yorker (Pale Fire) suggests that the current conflict over education reform is in many ways the playing out of long-simmering white-on-white class conflicts.
If so, this would suggest that focusing narrowly on social justice issues -- while entirely understandable in short-term tactical terms -- could only exacerbate the conflict and theoretically slow progress.
It's nothing you haven't thought or read or perhaps articulated yourself, but a worthwhile reminder.
How did you get that - or anything like that - from that article?
Posted by: john | July 21, 2016 at 14:11 PM