A Function of Schools Not Working or Schools Doing Exactly What They're Supposed To?
Daren Graves, Ph.D., Director of Urban Education,
College of Arts and Sciences
Professor Graves will look at some of the latest data outlining the disparities in educational outcomes along the lines of race. The questions he will be tackling are twofold.
1) What is the cause of the persistence of these racial disparities?
2) Is the persistence of these disparities a function of schools failing to serve as, what Horace Mann called, "the Great Equalizers of the conditions of man" or a function of the success of schools serving as sorting mechanisms and reproducers of inequality?
these disparities mean little since education is not about "drawing out" the individual talents and curiousities of the individual, but instead a factory churning out workers for industries that essentially no longer exist (when's the last time you bought something that said made in usa?)....if society as a whole had equality, then we wouldn't need to label ourselves by melanin levels and other irrelevancies, and we wouldn't need thousands of colleges like we have today
alfredunhill 2 months ago