Private schools already operate on placebo logic - high fees > the illusion of quality, which then produces real effects (motivation, engagement, accountability) through belief alone. Genetic selection is just the biological extension of this.
Parental choice and care for their children's future are a natural inclination, but without limits, this "care" becomes monstrosity and destructive for the common good and the public. The market can't arbitrate this.
We forget that educational reality isn't sth that's readily observable. For the observation to happen, one must already have a concept of education to observe at all. So, does educational research actually find facts or does it construct them? After Gohlich and Zirfas.
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Image of children wearing white clothes and black brain-reading headbands in a school classroom environment. From BrainCo marketing materials in 2017.
Who remembers BrainCo, the "brain-reading" startup out of Harvard that ran the creepiest marketing for its school-targeted neurotech headset about 8 years ago? It's now a major Chinese brain interface "dragon" - this is a pretty wild account of BrainCo's origins and evolution
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A Texas State University history professor has been fired for speaking at a socialism conference.
He called for organization as a means to achieve a better future. Texas State says thatβs inciting violence.
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Fascist Street Preachers
Giroux on Pedagogies of Repression: Ford, Trump and the War on Education
Yes, I saw that. I have seen the image of the lobby many times. This is a school that has been popularised quite extensively.
& even if it's not a private school, this kind of establishments create other kinds of exclusionary policies that effectively privatise education. Bernstein talked about this through his invisible pedagogies favouring children who already possess the cultural code/capital to thrive in such contexts
Is this a private school? I might be wrong & I'd need to dig deeper to get a better idea about their pedagogical approaches, but normally private schools need a unique selling point to justify their existence. So, anything they claim needs to be taken with a healthy pinch of salt.
Whatever next? The Reichstag fire was just robust democratic debate?
Whatever next? The Reichstag fire was just robust democratic debate?
Lumpenproletariat.
Far right protest today:
29 - police officers injured
9 - protestors arrested
Proscribed group protests:
0 - police officers injured
1,600 - protestors arrested
We have Keir Starmer and Yvette Cooper to thank for this absurd anomaly
Nazism's most effective slayer is communism, not liberalism. But to be precise he joined the German Workers' Party (DAP) in 1919, a small vΓΆlkisch group that was already nationalist and antisemitic, not a genuine workers' organisation.
What kind of criticism are you expecting from these "educational scientists"? :)
Massive racist demonstrations in London today led to brawls and violence. ~100 arrested. Meanwhile, at peaceful Palestine Action protests with zero provocations, police arrested up to 900 demonstrators.
Don't forget this is the dude who equates National Socialism with Communism.
Matt, these are racists - don't beat around the bush on this. They not only hate people who immigrate into the UK but they hate foreigners and peoples of other races. The immigration debate is just cover for their real agenda: racial eliminationism.
I wasn't replying to you there, but I will try to reply nonetheless. Yes there's evidence it can slightly raise test scores in heavily controlled settings. The real question is this: is it 'helpful' to tell a teacher in an underfunded school that their students' struggle is just a mindset issue?
