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• W290652854 abstract "Education is all about politics. I didn't always understand that. I used to think it had loftier purposes. But then I used to believe in the Tooth Fairy, too. I first came to see the horrible effects of politics on schools and schooling when I lived in a small college town in Ohio. The typical town/gown split was complicated there by a third distinct group, the most of whom were recent migrants from Appalachia or what the locals called rednecks and hillbillies. The town and gown folks didn't agree about much, but they did come together on one thing--their disdain and distrust of country people. Their own values and morals, they agreed, had much greater merit and quality than of the country people who lived in communities just outside the city limits. One elected school board governed the school system that served both the town and the outlying areas. Each community had its own elementary school, which was largely autonomous. In the outlying areas, the school was the social center of their essentially agricultural way of life. As a result, children in town and in the outlying areas completed the first nine years of school with people much like themselves. Then in high school, they all came together in one consolidated school prominently located in the center of town. Strict boundaries separated the high school cliques, and everyone knew who would populate the Advanced Placement classes and who would soon transfer to the vocational school or drop out. Time for Reform Life in school had gone on that way for generations, and it seemed to suit most of the people most of the time. That is until one bright politician got the idea that education and the country folk might just provide an excellent political opportunity. That clever guy rounded up a slate of candidates who promised that, if elected to the school board, they would close every community school and bus all of those children into town. If they mixed the kids together at an early age, on the slate explained, the disadvantaged children would overcome their deficits and learn to act and think more like their middle-class schoolmates. And this was long before Ruby Payne came up with a similar idea. With weak turnout in the outlying communities, the entire slate was elected and, true to their word, they promptly closed the outlying schools and began busing the country children into town. All of this, of course, was done in the name of good schools and good educations. The country people didn't see it that way. They lost their schools, their community centers, and a sense of control over what and how their young children were taught. We just want to help, the liberal-leaning politicians explained. But their good intentions did little to soothe the country people, who grew more and more frustrated about the deep separation between themselves and their children's schools. So, when the next election rolled around, the outsiders were ready. They put up their own slate of candidates, and this time they won by running on a platform that promised to undo what had been done by the incumbents. And so they, too, kept their promises. Soon, they had dismantled the changes their predecessors had implemented. And the rest is, as they say, history. What started as an effort to improve schools and schooling quickly turned into a political and cultural war that I suspect continues today. Everybody's Work That's the thing about education. It is everybody's business. And it seems like a pretty simple business at that. Just buy a bunch of textbooks and pencil sharpeners and get unsuspecting people to stand in front of the class and you're set to go. …" @default.
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• W290652854 title "And the Beat Goes On: The Endless Loop of School Reform Often Means That One Group Takes Apart What Someone Else Has Just Put Together. Does This Benefit Children?" @default.
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