[lbo-talk] Joanne Barkin: Poverty and US International School Rankings

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Mon Jan 31 12:17:15 PST 2011


Best on that story is Kozol's "Savage Inequalities."

Joanna

----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Pollak" <mpollak at panix.com> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org Sent: Monday, January 31, 2011 12:13:12 PM Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Joanne Barkin: Poverty and US International School Rankings

On Mon, 31 Jan 2011, Alan Rudy wrote:


> In any event, my point was more that the situation's been moderated
> since the era of local property tax-funded education, not that
> education's funded equally.

Which is an interesting point and one I never really realized before; I must have missed the transition. Could you explain some more of the history of what happened and when? Or recommend a some good google points like name of the case that was the turning point?

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