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Sunday, October 7, 2012

Schools Matter: Paul Tough, KIPP, and the "Science" of Cultural Sterilizatiion

Schools Matter: Paul Tough, KIPP, and the "Science" of Cultural Sterilizatiion:


Paul Tough, KIPP, and the "Science" of Cultural Sterilizatiion

Paul Tough is touring the country promoting his new book, which is is to say he is on a nationwide tour promoting KIPP.  For the book, How Children Succeed:Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character  reads as an unabashed paean to the kind of segregated, bare-knuckled corporate education reform for the poor that has made KIPP the darling of the oligarchs and hedge funders. With the help of CIA consultant, Dr. Martin Seligman and his disciples at UPenn, the KIPP gang is developing a designer mind intervention intended to create a culturally-sterilized corps of black order takers and low level corporate drones who never complain and always ask How High? when the boss man says, Jump.

If the KIPP neo-eugenic treatment can be perfected by Seligman and David Levin (co-founder of KIPP), America may finally be on the road to ridding itself of the inferior and depraved cultures that are responsible for poverty