| Here is what LEARNING does not resemble...George Joseph is rapidly becoming one of our best education writers. In this article in The Nation, he shows how education "reform" is contributing to the "school to prison pipeline." At best, he says, "no excuses" charter schools are preparing black students for low wage jobs. He writes: "As assistant professor of education Beth Sondel"the "No Excuses" disciplinary approach, promoted by KIPP, the largest charter school chain in America, has transformed schools into totalizing carceral environments.: There were, for example, specific expectations about where students should put their hands, which direction they should turn their heads, how they should stand, and how they should sit. At the sound of each bell at the middle school, students were expected when given permission, to step iinto the hallway and onto strips of black duct tape...read! |
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