Past and Present: Eugenics, Standardized Tests, and the Politics of School Reform
[Editor's note: An early draft version was posted in error. This has been corrected.]
*Guest Post by John Loflin
*Guest Post by John Loflin
Past and present: Eugenics, standardized tests, and politics of school reform
“If such a thing as a psycho-analysis of today’s prototypical culture were possible such an investigation
would needs show the sickness proper to the time to consist precisely in normality.”
-- Theodore Adorno, Minima Moralia
“Consistent with notions of American identity, standardized testing, as an opposition to a cultural other,
represents the normalization of whiteness, richness, and maleness.”
-- Andrew Hartman
YESTERDAY: THE HOOSIER CONNECTION: THE CULT OF EFFICIENCY
Ellwood P. Cubberly, Lewis Madison Terman, and David Starr Jordan: Eugenics scientific school management, and measuring “intelligence”
As the population grew during pre- and post-WW I America, public education had to adapt to the
Feds Making More on Student Loans Annually Than Ford Motor Co.
With cuts to public universities and students in debt to the tune of a trillion dollars, the Feds are raking in $34,000,000,000 each year on loans that students are working two jobs to repay. Now that obscenity could get worse if loan rates are allowed to double in July. From the NYTimes:
. . . .On Tuesday, the day before the White House plans to send its budget to Congress, student advocacy groups are releasing an issue brief charging that the federal government should not be profiting from student loans, while more and more students bear a crushing debt burden.
The brief, citing a February report from the Congressional Budget Office, said the federal government makes 36 cents in profit on every student-loan