Mrs. Chow’s Reviews > The Tyranny of the Meritocracy: Democratizing Higher Education in America > Status Update
Mrs. Chow
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As wonderful as the Clark University charter school sounds, the reality of making it work in public schools around the country is much more complicated. It requires a near total redesign of public education from the bottom up. Basically, burning everything down and starting over. What happened at Claremont is proof. Overlaying the Clark model on an existing public school resulted in disaster and teachers quit,
— Oct 30, 2023 05:54AM
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Mrs. Chow
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"A healthy democracy depends on everyone having equal opportunity to understand and shape public action. When our education system produces a culture of competition instead of collaboration , or when it produces citizens who cannot work together to solve problems or incorporate diverse voices, this has important consequences for our democracy" (127).
— Nov 08, 2023 06:31AM
Mrs. Chow
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"These classroom innovations show that it is possible to transform our vision of merit from a testocratic one to an interdependent, democratic one" (94).
— Nov 02, 2023 08:43AM
Mrs. Chow
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"Teachers can create learning environments where students work to understand the material together, and through this process, the goals of learning become shared" (94).
— Nov 02, 2023 05:43AM
Mrs. Chow
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"Society as a whole loses by embracing a system that focuses on and rewards the lucky few, while leaving out the unfortunate many" (82).
— Nov 01, 2023 08:43AM
Mrs. Chow
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I need to look up The Posse Foundation -- this book was published in 2014, so I'm not sure if it's still around. I really hope so. I also want to find out more about the Bial-Dale Adaptability Index, Do schools actually use that? How do they gather students to assess them? What would it look like if in order to apply to college students registered to be evaluated in this way rather than taking the SAT/ACT?
— Nov 01, 2023 05:50AM
Mrs. Chow
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Another element of tension the author introduces is the lack of success of the UPCS students once they leave for college.
— Oct 30, 2023 08:42AM
Mrs. Chow
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"If our higher education system is to remain competitive in the global information economy of the twenty-first century, we will have to move toward creating campuses where students live with other-race peers, have meaningful conversations with classmates with different perspectives, and are therefore pushed to be more thoughtful about our collective history and our democracy" (42).
— Oct 26, 2023 09:19AM
Mrs. Chow
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Quoting Leon Botstein: "The elite institutions have willingly supported an alliance with the College Board to make their own lives easier, and we Americans seem to have accepted this owing to our misplaced love affair with standardized testing and rankings as the proper means to ensure educational excellence" (Time Magazine article March 2014)
— Oct 26, 2023 05:52AM
Mrs. Chow
is on page 27 of 176
The SAT best measures the wealth of those who take it -- the numbers bear that out.
— Oct 24, 2023 09:43AM
