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Sunday, December 4, 2011

Schools Matter: Obama's Education Policy Stuck Between Coddling the Rich and Containing the Poor

Schools Matter: Obama's Education Policy Stuck Between Coddling the Rich and Containing the Poor:

Obama's Education Policy Stuck Between Coddling the Rich and Containing the Poor

The New York Times reports that Obama's Justice and Education Departments have jointly offered new guidance for interpreting recent racist decisions by conservative federal courts in ways that give colleges and universities wiggle room for efforts intended to increase diversity in higher education and K-12 populations. That's the good news. At the same time, Obama and Co. continue to stand squarely behind racist and classist accountablility and sorting systems that these same schools, colleges, and universities use to determine who gets into a real brick and mortar college, and who gets shoved into an online and for-profit diploma mill with open, really open, admissions.

At this point, we must wonder, in fact, if any of recent efforts to rein in the Phoenixes and Kaplans from boiler