On Jul 2, 2011, at 11:27 PM, Michael Smith wrote:
>> On Jul 2, 2011, at 9:44 AM, James Heartfield wrote:
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>>> State education has consistently encouraged working-class children to accept their lot in life.
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>> Depends on where you are. In the U.S., it does. In other countries,
>> it seems to lessen, not intensify, class differences.
>
> What countries are those? Not a combative
> or rhetorical question -- I really want to know.
Most of the better-performing countries in the PISA tests (pisa.oecd.org), actually - Finland, Korea, Shanghai. The U.S., already one of the most unequal societies in the PISA universe, has a school system that reinforces inequality.
Doug