"No Excuses": Race, Class, & Education
Last night, Condoleezza Rice stood in front of the Republican National Convention and declared that education was the "civil rights issue of our day." Diane Ravitch points out that it never occurs to these people that povertyshould be the real civil rights issue, as poverty is the best predictor of school performance, health, longevity, happiness, and so on.
I'd add that we should also consider that "civil rights" might be the civil rights issue of our time, what with the massive, conservative-driven voter disenfranchisement that's going on in the country. That's closely linked to thedestruction of local control of schools in the cities; and it begs a question of those, like Rice, who insist that
I'd add that we should also consider that "civil rights" might be the civil rights issue of our time, what with the massive, conservative-driven voter disenfranchisement that's going on in the country. That's closely linked to thedestruction of local control of schools in the cities; and it begs a question of those, like Rice, who insist that